SOLUTION: A car and a truck left Washington, DC traveling in opposite directions. The car traveled 19 miles per hour faster than the truck, and at the end of 8 hours they were 1448 miles apa
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Question 1035314: A car and a truck left Washington, DC traveling in opposite directions. The car traveled 19 miles per hour faster than the truck, and at the end of 8 hours they were 1448 miles apart. What was the average speed of each vehicle? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = the speed of the truck in mi/hr = the speed of the car in mi/hr
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You can think of this as one of the vehicles
covering 1448 mi at the sum of their speeds
and the other vehicle standing still
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and
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The car's speed is 100 mi/hr
The truck's speed is 82 mi/hr
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check: mi
and mi
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OK
