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A person riding a motorcycle leaves an hour after a person riding a bicycle. Both travel the same road. If the person riding the bicycle is traveling at 10 miles per hour and the person riding the motorcycle is traveling at 50 miles per hours, how long will it take the motorcycle to overtake the bicycle?
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Let time the motorbike takes, be T
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document.write( "Then time bicycle takes = T + 1
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document.write( "The following DISTANCE equation is thus formed: 50T = 10(T + 2)
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document.write( "Solve for T, the time the motorbike takes! \n" );
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