SOLUTION: please help me with the equation: At a given hour, two steamboats leave a city in the same direction on a straight canal. One travels at 18 mph, and the other travels at 25 mph.

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Question 469315: please help me with the equation:
At a given hour, two steamboats leave a city in the same direction on a straight canal. One travels at 18 mph, and the other travels at 25 mph. In how many hours will the boats be 70 miles apart?

Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I don't see an equation.

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