SOLUTION: You and your friend live 12 miles apart. You leave home at the same time and travel toward each other. You walk at a rate of 4 mph your friend rides a bike at 11 mph. A. How lon

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Question 894282: You and your friend live 12 miles apart. You leave home at the same time and travel toward each other. You walk at a rate of 4 mph your friend rides a bike at 11 mph.
A. How long after you leave will you meet?
B. suppose your friend travels at a rate of 12 mph how much sooner will you meet? How far from home will each of you be?

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Part A, approach rate is mph.



hour

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You and your friend live 12 miles apart. You leave home at the same time and travel toward each other. You walk at a rate of 4 mph your friend rides a bike at 11 mph.
A. How long after you leave will you meet?
B. suppose your friend travels at a rate of 12 mph how much sooner will you meet? How far from home will each of you be?

A.
We will meet: hour, or minutes after leaving our respective destinations
B.
With friend traveling at 12 mph, the meeting will take hour or minutes.
Therefore, we will meet (48 - 45) minutes earlier
C.
With friend traveling at 12 mph, we will meet miles from my home, which is
miles from the friend's home.
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