document.write( "Question 400702: The work says \"While making a cross country trip from Baltimore, MD to Denver, CO a family travels through Kansas, the last state before arriving in Colorado, on I-70. The highway is 424 miles long with a speed limit of 70 mph. The family’s distance remaining, in miles, until arriving in Colorado after t hours of driving is given by the equation d= 424 - 72t.\"
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Algebra.Com's Answer #283663 by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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Either they made a mistake it should be 70t, or you have to assume they were
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