SOLUTION: a car leaves a city and goes north at an average rate of 50 miles per hour at 2 p.m. one hour later a second car leaves from the same point, traveling south at an average rate of 4

SOLUTION: a car leaves a city and goes north at an average rate of 50 miles per hour at 2 p.m. one hour later a second car leaves from the same point, traveling south at an average rate of 4

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Question 609144: a car leaves a city and goes north at an average rate of 50 miles per hour at 2 p.m. one hour later a second car leaves from the same point, traveling south at an average rate of 40 miles per hour. at what time will the two cars be 320 miles apart?
Answer by flame8855(424) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
d1 = 50t
d2=-40t
d1-d2 = 320
50t-(40t)=320
90t=320
t=32/9
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