SOLUTION: Suppose you travel north at 15 kilometers per hour for 2 hours then travel east. If at one place he is 34 kilometers from your starting point, how many hours have you traveled?
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Question 1163446: Suppose you travel north at 15 kilometers per hour for 2 hours then travel east. If at one place he is 34 kilometers from your starting point, how many hours have you traveled? Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, greenestamps:Answer by ikleyn(52865) (Show Source):
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Suppose you travel north at 15 kilometers per hour for 2 hours then travel east. If at one place
he is 34 kilometers from your starting point, how many hours have you traveled?
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Makes no sense.
Who is that "he" who suddenly appears in the post ?
If you are so careless about what you post to the forum, why I should take care about it ? ? ? ? ?
Suppose you travel north at 15 kilometers per hour for 2 hours then travel east. If at one place you are 34 kilometers from your starting point, how many hours have you traveled?
The statement of the problem is deficient -- it must specify that the speed going east is the same as the speed going north. In order to solve the problem, we must assume that is the case.
A diagram of the problem will show you going 30 kilometers north (2 hours at 15km/h), then traveling east for some distance, ending 34 kilometers from your starting point.
That makes a right triangle with one leg 30 and hypotenuse 34. Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of the other leg.
Then use that length and the speed of 15km/h to find the amount of time spent traveling east.
Then add that to the 2 hours you spent traveling north to find the total time traveled.
