document.write( "Question 1194482: Emilia drove at an average speed of 50mi/h from her home in Los Angeles to visit her sister in New Orleans. She stayed in New Orleans 15hours, and on the trip back averaged 50 mi/h. She returned home 49 hours after leaving. How many miles is Los Angeles from New Orleans? \r
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Emilia drove at an average speed of 50mi/h from her home in Los Angeles to visit her sister in New Orleans. She stayed in New Orleans 15hours, and on the trip back averaged 50 mi/h. She returned home 49 hours after leaving. How many miles is Los Angeles from New Orleans? \r
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Let distance each way, be D\r\n" );
document.write( "Since entire trip took 49 hours, and 15 of those hours were spent not driving, then time spent driving = 49 - 15 = 34 hours\r\n" );
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document.write( "If you want to use t as time as suggested, you can. This will produce a different equation than mine below. But, I won't use\r\n" );
document.write( "it because I don't need to, as I want to get DIRECTLY to the distance, each way.\r\n" );
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document.write( "a) We then get the following TIME equation: \r\n" );
document.write( "   You can then continue to solve by SIMPLIFYING the above equation to: \r\n" );
document.write( "b) All you need to do now is CROSS-MULTIPLY to get D, the distance each way.

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