SOLUTION: A container ship left Hawaii and travelled north at an average speed of 15 km/h. A cruise ship 1.9 hours later and traveled in the opposite direction with an average speed of 12.6
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Question 597367: A container ship left Hawaii and travelled north at an average speed of 15 km/h. A cruise ship 1.9 hours later and traveled in the opposite direction with an average speed of 12.6 km/h. Find the number of hoours the cruise ship needs to travel before the vessels are 125.1 km apart.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First find how many km head start the container
ship has.
km
Let = the number of hours the cruise ship needs
to travel before the vessels are 125.1 km apart.
The container ship also travels for time
after it's head start
km
km
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km
The cruise ship travels for 3.5 hours until the
vessels are 125.1 km apart
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