document.write( "Question 428315: My wife and I exercise on a running course that is 2.25 miles long. If we both started at the same spot but traveled opppsite directions on the course and she walks 3 mph and I run 6mph, at what point in the course will we meet in distance and in time? \n" ); document.write( "
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My wife and I exercise on a running course that is 2.25 miles long. If we both started at the same spot but traveled opposite directions on the course and she walks 3 mph and I run 6mph, at what point in the course will we meet in distance and in time?
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\n" ); document.write( "Your DATA:
\n" ); document.write( "rate = 6 mph ; time = x hrs ; distance = rt = 6x miles
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\n" ); document.write( "Wife DATA:
\n" ); document.write( "rate = 3 mph ; time = x hrs ; distance = rt = 3x
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\n" ); document.write( "Equation:
\n" ); document.write( "6x+3x = 2.25 miles
\n" ); document.write( "9x = 2.25 miles
\n" ); document.write( "x = 0.25 miles
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\n" ); document.write( "Your distance: 6x = 6*0.25 = 1.5 miles
\n" ); document.write( "Wife's distance: 3x = 3*0.25 = 0.75 miles
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\n" ); document.write( "Time = distance/rate = 1.5 miles/6 mph = 0.25 hrs
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\n" ); document.write( "Cheers,
\n" ); document.write( "Stan H.
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