Question 1163130: A car is on a road traveling due north at 56.3 km/h and a motorcycle is traveling on another road due west at 64.37 km/h. The car is 24.14 km from the point where the roads meet and the motorcycle is 8.00 km past that point. What is the closest that the two vehicles get?
Answer by ikleyn(52916)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
I just reacted to this problem in my previous post, saying that the problem is DEFECTIVE.
It is defective, because it admits TWO possible starting positions for the car:
one is 24.14 km BEFORE the intersection, and another is 24.14 km AFTER the intersection.
Please pass my "Hello" to a person who composed this problem, and say him (referring to me) that he (or she)
should be more accurate when creates Math problems.
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