SOLUTION: Clara cycles at a constant speed of 8 meters per second from west to east along a path. She passes a road sign during her ride. Ift represents the number of seconds since Clara was

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Question 1165060: Clara cycles at a constant speed of 8 meters per second from west to east along a path. She passes a road sign during her ride. Ift represents the number of seconds since Clara was 15 meters east of the road sign, write an expression to represent Clara's distance east of the road sign. Distance Clara is East of the road sign = * meters. 
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Clara cycles at a constant speed of 8 meters per second from west to east along a path. She passes a road sign during her ride.
If t represents the number of seconds since Clara was 15 meters east of the road sign, write an expression
to represent Clara's distance east of the road sign. Distance Clara is East of the road sign = * meters. 
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Distance Clara is East of the road sign = 15 + 8*t meters.

Solved.


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Comment from student :   Thank you I finally did it enough to where it gave me the answer and it said it was  13+8×t.



My response :   So called  "answer"  in your comment is  INCORRECT.

                         Fix it according to my solution.