SOLUTION: A boy travels to school going 3 mph and on the way home, it is the same distance, but he goes at 5 mph instead. The entire roundtrip took one hour... what was the distance (in mile

Question 52497: A boy travels to school going 3 mph and on the way home, it is the same distance, but he goes at 5 mph instead. The entire roundtrip took one hour... what was the distance (in miles) that he traveled?

Answer by Paul(988) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x represent the distance
EQUATION:

solve from there.
Paul.
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