SOLUTION: Two cars start moving from the same point. One travels east at 45 miles per hour and the other travels north at 55 miles per hour. How fast is the distance between them increasing
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Question 590273: Two cars start moving from the same point. One travels east at 45 miles per hour and the other travels north at 55 miles per hour. How fast is the distance between them increasing 85 minutes after they start.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Two cars start moving from the same point. One travels east at 45 miles per hour and the other travels north at 55 miles per hour. How fast is the distance between them increasing 85 minutes after they start.
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Their directions make a right angle.
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r =~ 71 mi/hr at all times
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That does not apply if they start from different points, or at different times.
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