SOLUTION: Patrick drove 3 hours to attend a meeting. On the return trip his spped was 10 miles per hour and the trip took 4 hours. What was his speed each way?

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Question 107374: Patrick drove 3 hours to attend a meeting. On the return trip his spped was 10 miles per hour and the trip took 4 hours. What was his speed each way?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
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You know his speed on the return trip because it was given: 10 mph. Now we need to find out how far he travelled.

is the formula for distance, given speed and time. We should be able to assume that he drove just as far going to the meeting as he did coming back.

Now we need to rearrange our formula by dividing both sides by t, allowing us to say that:

So he averaged 13 and 1/3 miles per hour on the trip to the meeting.

He must have been on the I405 in Los Angeles during rush hour.