document.write( "Question 976562: After Hurricane Katrina, a rescue vehicle leaves a station at noon and heads for New Orleans. An hour later a second vehicle traveling 10 mph faster leaves the same station. By 4:00 p.m., the first vehicle reaches its destination, and the second is still 10 mi away. How fast is each vehicle?\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #598131 by josgarithmetic(39620)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! r, rate of either but only one of the vehicles; \n" ); document.write( "d, the distance each vehicle travels to the rescue site; \n" ); document.write( "t, ... time...\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "__________________speed___________time__________distance \n" ); document.write( "vehicleOne_______(_r_)_____________4_____________d \n" ); document.write( "vehicleTwo_______(r+10)____________4_____________d-10\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Reading and carefully thinking on the desciption a few times is necessary to decide how to fill the data table cells. Observe that no variable for time were used.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You want to formulate equations and solve for the unknown variable r; and you can also solve for d if you want.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " |