document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=657575>Question 657575</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A pack of elephants are moving at 6 mph.  One gets left behind.  It chased at a rate of 10 mph and caught up in 5 minutes.  Howlong in hours did it run to catch up? How far did the lone elephant run?   </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The solution from tutor @mananth assumes the pack of elephants stops to wait for the lone elephant to catch up, so that the lone elephant catches up to the pack at a rate of 10mph.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "More likely, the pack kept moving at 6mph, so the rate at which the lone elephant catches up is 10-6 = 4mph.<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The lone elephant ran for 5 minutes to catch up; 5 minutes is 1/12 of an hour.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The lone elephant ran for 1/12 of an hour at 10mph to catch up; the distance it ran to catch up was 10*(1/12) = 5/6 miles.<br><BR>\n" );
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