SOLUTION: One car travels 100 miles in the same amount of time it takes another car to travel 40 miles. If the second car travels ten miles per hour slower, how fast does the second car trav
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Question 878341: One car travels 100 miles in the same amount of time it takes another car to travel 40 miles. If the second car travels ten miles per hour slower, how fast does the second car travel??
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
| Cross Multiplying to solve
100r - 1000 = 40r
60r = 1000
r = 16 2/3 mph
Second car 6 2/3 mph
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