document.write( "Question 1187999: By car, John travels from a city A to city be in three hours. At a rate that was 20 mph greater than Jones, Peter traveled the same distance than two hours. Find the distance between the two cities. \n" ); document.write( "

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John, Jones, Peter ?
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document.write( "PERSON           SPEEDS           TIMES        DISTANCE\r\n" );
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document.write( "J                 r               3            (r)(3)\r\n" );
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document.write( "PETER            r+20             2           (r+20)(2)\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "If those distances are the same value then $\"3r=2%28r%2B20%29\"$
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\n" ); document.write( " $\"3r=2r%2B40\"$ \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"r=40\"$ \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"highlight%283%2Ar=120%29\"$ \n" ); document.write( "

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