SOLUTION: Five cars in a race all finished within 8 seconds of each other. Car A finished 1 second ahead of Car D, and car D was not the last. Car B finished 6 seconds before car E. Car E fi

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Question 1002092: Five cars in a race all finished within 8 seconds of each other. Car A finished 1 second ahead of Car D, and car D was not the last. Car B finished 6 seconds before car E. Car E finished 3 seconds behind Car A. Car A finished 5 seconds behind Car C. In what order did the cars finish?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let +t%5BA%5D+ = time of finish of car A in sec
Let +t%5BB%5D+ = time of finish of car B in sec
Let +t%5BC%5D+ = time of finish of car C in sec
Let +t%5BD%5D+ = time of finish of car D in sec
Let +t%5BE%5D+ = time of finish of car E in sec
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(1) +t%5BA%5D+=+t%5BD%5D+-+1+
(2) +t%5BB%5D+=+t%5BE%5D+-+6+
(3) +t%5BE%5D+=+t%5BA%5D+%2B+3+
(4) +t%5BA%5D+=+t%5BC%5D+%2B+5+
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From (3),
(3) +t%5BA%5D+=+t%5BE%5D+-+3+
and
(2) +t%5BE%5D+=+t%5BB%5D+%2B+6+
and
(1) +t%5BD%5D+=+t%5BA%5D+%2B+1+
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So far, I have the order of finish:
C B A D E
That looks like the order of finish
from 1st to last