SOLUTION: at noon, a passenger ship and a freighter left a port traveling in oposite directions. By midnight, the passanger ship was 3 times farther from port than the freighter was. How far
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Question 106109: at noon, a passenger ship and a freighter left a port traveling in oposite directions. By midnight, the passanger ship was 3 times farther from port than the freighter was. How far was the freighter from port if the distance between the ships was 84 miles? Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! at noon, a passenger ship and a freighter left a port traveling in opposite directions. By midnight, the passenger ship was 3 times farther from port than the freighter was. How far was the freighter from port if the distance between the ships was 84 miles?
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Let x = freighters distance from the port
Then
3x = pass ship from port
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3x + x = 84
4x = 84
x = 84/4
x = 21 mi from port, a real slow ship
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Freighter----x--------Port-------------------3x------------------Pass
