SOLUTION: Julie recently drove to visit her parents who live 240240 miles away. On her way there her average speed was 1111 miles per hour faster than on her way home (she ran into some bad

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Question 1103875: Julie recently drove to visit her parents who live 240240 miles away. On her way there her average speed was 1111 miles per hour faster than on her way home (she ran into some bad weather). If Julie spent a total of 88 hours driving, find the two rates.
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Julie recently drove to visit her parents who live 240 miles away. On her way there her average speed was 11 miles per hour faster than on her way home (she ran into some bad weather). If Julie spent a total of 8 hours driving, find the two rates.
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                    SPEED      TIME             DISTANCE

GOING               r+11      240/(r+11)           240

COMING BACK        r           240/r              240

Total                          8

Your equation to solve the the speed going to parents, r is 240%2Fr%2B240%2F%28r%2B11%29=8.