document.write( "Question 1052251: An airplane takes off from an airport at 7:00 a.m. traveling at a rate of 350 mph. Two hours later, a jet takes off from the same airport following the same flight path at 490 mph. How many hours will it take the jet to catch up with airplane? \n" ); document.write( "
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An airplane takes off from an airport at 7:00 a.m. traveling at a rate of 350 mph. Two hours later, a jet takes off from the same airport following the same flight path at 490 mph. How many hours will it take the jet to catch up with airplane?
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Let time taken by jet to get to meetup point, be T
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document.write( "Then time taken by airplane to get to meetup point = T + 2
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document.write( "We then get the following DISTANCE equation: 490T = 350(T + 2)
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document.write( "Solve this for T, the time the jet took to catch up with the airplane. You should get: \"highlight_green%28matrix%281%2C2%2C+5%2C+hours%29%29\"
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document.write( "It's that simple.....nothing complex! \n" );
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