SOLUTION: two cars started from the same point. one travels north at 55 mi/h and the other traveled west at 65 mi/h. how far apart were the cars after 3 hours? round to the nearest tenth of

Question 760345: two cars started from the same point. one travels north at 55 mi/h and the other traveled west at 65 mi/h. how far apart were the cars after 3 hours? round to the nearest tenth of a mile
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The instantaneous destination points and the origination point form a right triangle... rate*time is the distance from the origination point.

where r is the rate at which the cars are separating moving away from each other.

miles per hour

That is r=85 miles per hour.
miles
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