document.write( "Question 260051: If car A is traveling at 75 miles per hour for 100 hours and car B is traveling 65 miles per hour for 75 miles which car will arrive at their destination first and how long did each car travel?\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #191483 by richwmiller(17219)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! There is no way to know because we don't know their destinations. \n" ); document.write( "We also don't know how fast car b travelled after the 75 miles. \n" ); document.write( "So either the destination is 75 miles or less or car b didn't make it and/or car a over shot the destination since car a travelled for 100 hours and 75 mph.a distance of 7500 miles. \n" ); document.write( "All in all, a very poorly worded question. Did you copy all of it and did you copy it correctly?\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "If they are heading to the same place from the same place then \n" ); document.write( "75*100=d \n" ); document.write( "d=7500 miles \n" ); document.write( "65*t=75 \n" ); document.write( "t=15/13 =1 2/13 =1 hr 9 minutes \n" ); document.write( "car a travelled 7500 miles \n" ); document.write( "and car b travelled 75 miles \n" ); document.write( "If their destinations were 7500 miles away for car a and 75 miles away for car b then car a took 100 hrs which is substantially more than car b which travelled a little more than 1 hour.\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |