document.write( "Question 1017296: harry drove for 3 hours on the freeway, then decreased his speed by 20 miles per hour and drove for 3 more hours on the country road, if his total speed was 306 then that was his speed on the freeway \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "                   speed     time\r\n" );
document.write( "freeway            r         3\r\n" );
document.write( "country            r-20      3\r\n" );
document.write( "TOTAL              306\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The description is very strange. \"Total speed\".\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"r%2B%28r-20%29=306\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"r%2Br-20=306\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"2r-20=306\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"r-10=153\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"highlight%28highlight%28r=163%29%29\"$ ------The freeway speed, so the country road speed was $\"highlight%28r-20=143%29\"$ .
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