SOLUTION: If a car is going 30mph uphill within a mile, how fast does the car have to drive downhill to have an average rate of 60pmh?

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Question 789695: If a car is going 30mph uphill within a mile, how fast does the car have to drive downhill to have an average rate of 60pmh?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If a car is going 30mph uphill within a mile, how fast does the car have to drive downhill to have an average rate of 60pmh?
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Impossible, he can't drive fast enough
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Prove this, write a time equation
Time up + time down = time at 60 mph
+ =
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+ = ;
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No matter how fast for x, it would not be an equation

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