SOLUTION: Two people start traveling towards each other from 950 miles apart. One is traveling at 30 mph and the other at 40 mph. How many hours elapse before they meet?
Algebra.Com
Question 972392: Two people start traveling towards each other from 950 miles apart. One is traveling at 30 mph and the other at 40 mph. How many hours elapse before they meet?
Answer by amarjeeth123(569) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let them meet after a time 't' hours.
Distance covered by one person=speed*time=30t
Distance covered by second person=speed*time=40t
We have 30t+40t=950
70t=950
t=95/7=13.57 hours=13 hours 34.2 minutes
They meet after 13.57 hours.
RELATED QUESTIONS
`Two people start traveling towards each other from 960 miles apart. One is traveling at... (answered by macston)
If two people are 50 miles apart traveling towards each other one traveling 60 mph the... (answered by TimothyLamb,stanbon)
Two trains are traveling toward each other and are 950 miles apart. One plane is flying... (answered by checkley77)
Two planes are traveling toward each other and are 950 miles apart. One plane is flying... (answered by lwsshak3)
Two trains, 390 miles apart, start traveling toward each other at the same time and meet... (answered by lwsshak3)
two trains are 630 miles apart heading directly towards each other. The first train is... (answered by rfer)
two cars start from the same city at the same time. one car is traveling 45 mph and the... (answered by josgarithmetic)
two trains are traveling toward each other from 30 miles apart train a is traveling east... (answered by reynard2007)
Two Buses leave Atlanta at the same time, one traveling west at 40 mph and the other... (answered by robertb,mananth)