SOLUTION: Annette drives her car 95 miles and has an average of a certain speed. If the average speed had been 8mph more, she could have traveled 114 miles in the same length of time. What w

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Hi

d = rt  0r t = d/r
times the same:
Let r be the average speed:

114r = 95(r + 8)
 19r = 760
 r = 40mph

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