document.write( "Question 881083: Hi,
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document.write( "Can somebody please help me out?
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document.write( "Our teacher instructed us to answer a few questions and I'm unfortunately stuck here on the third which is:
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document.write( "A motorcycle driver travels 15 kph faster than a bicycle rider. The motorcycle driver covers 60 km in two hours less than the time it takes the bicycle rider to travel the same distance.\r
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document.write( "I figured it would be something like
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document.write( "Speed
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document.write( "Let x = bicycle driver
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document.write( "x+15 = motorcycle rider
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document.write( "Time
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document.write( "Let x = motorcycle driver
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document.write( "x+2 = bicycle driver
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document.write( "60 = total\r
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document.write( "x+x+2=60
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document.write( "2x+2=60
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document.write( "2x+2-60
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document.write( "2x-58
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document.write( "x=29\r
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document.write( "x+x+15=60
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document.write( "2x+15=60
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document.write( "2x+15-60
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document.write( "2x-45
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document.write( "x=22.5\r
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document.write( "Any help would be appreciated! I'm still trying to solve this though. \n" );
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