document.write( "Question 1060240: I drove to my parents' house at 60 miles per hour. If I had driven 50 miles an hour instead, then I would have gotten there 40 minutes later. How many miles did I drive? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "I drove to my parents' house at 60 miles per hour. If I had driven 50 miles an hour instead, then I would have gotten there 40 minutes later. How many miles did I drive?
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Let the distance be D
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document.write( "Then actual time taken = 
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document.write( "Hypothetical time: 
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document.write( "Note that 40 minutes = 
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document.write( "We then get the following TIME equation:  
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document.write( "Solve for D, the distance
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document.write( "That's all...nothing complex! 
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document.write( "Also, NO NEED TO find actual and/or hypothetical time. That's doing more work than is required, unless of course you like doing extra work. \n" );
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