SOLUTION: Mark, traveling 60mph, and Susan, traveling 50mph, leave Greenville to go to Dallas area. It takes Susan 3 hours longer than mark to get home. What is marks travel time? What dista

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Question 903019: Mark, traveling 60mph, and Susan, traveling 50mph, leave Greenville to go to Dallas area. It takes Susan 3 hours longer than mark to get home. What is marks travel time? What distance did mark travel?
Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
60m=50(m+3)
60m=50m+150
10m=150
m=15
s=18
60*15=900 miles
50*18=900 miles

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