SOLUTION: Two trains leave the same station at the same time one travels due south at 65 mph and the other travels west at 55 mph they both reach their destination in exactly 3 hours how far
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Question 832608: Two trains leave the same station at the same time one travels due south at 65 mph and the other travels west at 55 mph they both reach their destination in exactly 3 hours how far apart are the two destinations
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Rate*Time=Distance.
The south and the west traveled distances are legs of a right triangle, and the distance apart for the trains is the hypotenuse. Pythagorean Theorem application.
Skipping two steps, and not showing the described diagram,
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