SOLUTION: a motorcycle travels 15 mph faster than a bicycle. the motorcycle driver covers 10 km in two hours less than it takes the bicycle driver to travel the same distance

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Question 975446: a motorcycle travels 15 mph faster than a bicycle. the motorcycle driver covers 10 km in two hours less than it takes the bicycle driver to travel the same distance
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
____________________speed___________time____________distance
Motorcycle__________r+15____________t-2_____________10
Bicycle______________r_______________t______________10

Your system is this:


Two equations, two unknown variables. Several algebra steps using some substitutions.

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