document.write( "Question 948428: A person drove 24 mph on a trip. If he had driven 36 mph he would have arrived 2 hours earlier. What was the distance traveled? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "A person drove 24 mph on a trip. If he had driven 36 mph he would have arrived 2 hours earlier. What was the distance traveled?
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document.write( "Let distance driven, be D
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document.write( "Then time taken = 
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document.write( "Time he/she would’ve taken had he/she driven 36 mph: 
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document.write( "With difference in time being 2 hours, we get: 
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document.write( "3D = 2D + 144 ------- Multiplying by LCD, 72
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document.write( "3D – 2D = 144
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document.write( "D, or distance traveled =  miles \n" );
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