SOLUTION: Two cars leave a city and head in the same direction. After 6 hours, the faster car is 66 miles ahead of the slower car. The slower car has traveled 294 miles. Find the speed of th
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Question 828167: Two cars leave a city and head in the same direction. After 6 hours, the faster car is 66 miles ahead of the slower car. The slower car has traveled 294 miles. Find the speed of the two cars.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
CAR__________speed___________time____________distance
FAST__________Rf_______________6______________294+66=362
SLOW___________Rs______________6________________294
If you could take the lower case letter as a subscript, then R, upper case is to mean speed or rate.
R*t=d, the uniform rate equation for distance, t is time, d distance.
and , in unit of miles per hour.
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