SOLUTION: two cars leave a gas station at the same time. one car travels east at 50mph while the other car travels west. after 3 hours they are 345 miles apart. how fast is the westbound ca
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Question 512606: two cars leave a gas station at the same time. one car travels east at 50mph while the other car travels west. after 3 hours they are 345 miles apart. how fast is the westbound car traveling? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! think of the eastbound car as being
stationary and the westbound car as
traveling at the sum of their speeds
Let = speed of westbound car
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65 mi/hr is the speed of westbound car
