SOLUTION: Family traveling 2.5 hours at average speed of 60 miles per hour then drove 70 miles per hour for 4 hours. Which is the shortest distance and what is the distance.

SOLUTION: Family traveling 2.5 hours at average speed of 60 miles per hour then drove 70 miles per hour for 4 hours. Which is the shortest distance and what is the distance.

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Question 971140: Family traveling 2.5 hours at average speed of 60 miles per hour then drove 70 miles per hour for 4 hours. Which is the shortest distance and what is the distance.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Shortest distance? From location start to location finish? Different directions? Opposite directions? At an angle? Total length?

Here is for total length:

RT=D for rate time distance, uniform travel rates rule.

in miles.
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