SOLUTION: Two cars left at 0800 from the same point, one travelling east at 50km/h and the other travelling south at 60km/h. When they are 300km apart what is the distance both travelled fro

Question 811209: Two cars left at 0800 from the same point, one travelling east at 50km/h and the other travelling south at 60km/h. When they are 300km apart what is the distance both travelled from the time they started?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39615) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A diagram would probably help.
Let h = time in hours when the cars are 300 km. apart. The starting point location is the right angle vertex of a triangle.

as a simple decimal approximation, in hours.

The eastward car traveled 50*3.84=192 km.
The southward car traveled 230 km.
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