SOLUTION: Your bus takes 15 minutes to get from your home to school. It travels at an average speed of 32 miles per hour. Your classmate's bus takes 18 minutes to get to school, traveling

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Question 730254: Your bus takes 15 minutes to get from your home to school. It travels at an average speed of 32 miles per hour.
Your classmate's bus takes 18 minutes to get to school, traveling at an average speed of 25 miles per hour.
How much farther from school do you live? (Please note that speed is in miles per hour, but time is in minutes.)

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Your bus takes 15 minutes to get from your home to school. It travels at an average speed of 32 miles per hour.
Your classmate's bus takes 18 minutes to get to school, traveling at an average speed of 25 miles per hour.
How much farther from school do you live? (Please note that speed is in miles per hour, but time is in minutes.)
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Your distance to school is  %2815%2F60%29%2A32 = 8 miles.


Your classmate's distance to school is  %2818%2F60%29%2A25 = 7.5 miles.


You live 8 - 7.5 = 0.5 of a mile further from the school than your classmate.    ANSWER

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