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document.write( "A bus leaves a station at 1 PM,traveling west at an average rate of 44mi/hour. One hour later a second bus leaves the station, traveling east at a rate of 48 mi/h. At what time will the two buses be 274 miles apart? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "West-bound DATA:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Rate= 44 mph ; Time = x hrs. ; distance = 44x miles<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "East-bound DATA:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Rate = 48 ph ; Time = x-1 hrs ; distance = 48(x-1) miles<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "distance + distance = 274<BR>\n" );
document.write( "44x + 48(x-1) = 274<BR>\n" );
document.write( "44x + 48x - 48 = 274<BR>\n" );
document.write( "92x = 322<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = 3.5 hrs<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1PM = 3.5 hrs = 4:30PM<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H. </SPAN>\n" );
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