SOLUTION: A bus traveled on a level road for 6 hours at an average speed 20 miles per hour faster than it traveled on a winding road. The time spent on the winding road. The time spent on th
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Question 1129422: A bus traveled on a level road for 6 hours at an average speed 20 miles per hour faster than it traveled on a winding road. The time spent on the winding road. The time spent on the winding road was 2 hours.
Find the average speed on the level roasd if the entire trip was 384 miles
The bus speed on the level road was ? mph Found 2 solutions by t0hierry, josmiceli:Answer by t0hierry(194) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = distance traveled on the winding road = distance traveled on level road
Let = the average speed on the winding road = the average speed on the level road
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Equation for winding road:
(1)
Equation for level road:
(2)
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(2)
Plug (1) into (2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
and
The speed on level road was 53 mi/hr
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check:
(1)
(1)
and
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
OK
