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document.write( "A bus leave a station at 1 p.m. , traveling west an average rate of 44 mi/h. One hour later a second bus leaves the same station,traveling each at a rate of 58 mi/h.At what time will the two buses be 274 mi apart? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "y = 44x + 44<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Second bus:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "q = 58x<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Combine:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "q - y = 274<BR>\n" );
document.write( "58x - (44x + 44) = 274<BR>\n" );
document.write( "58x - 44x - 44 = 274<BR>\n" );
document.write( "14x = 318<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = 159/7 or about 22.7 hours<BR>\n" );
document.write( "22 hours and 42 minutes; means 1 hour and 18 minutes from a whole day<BR>\n" );
document.write( "11:42 a.m. </SPAN>\n" );
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