SOLUTION: You and your friend live 12 miles away from each other. You leave home at the same time and travel toward each other. You walk at a rate of 4 miles per hour and your friend bicycle
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Question 343265: You and your friend live 12 miles away from each other. You leave home at the same time and travel toward each other. You walk at a rate of 4 miles per hour and your friend bicycles at a rate of 11 miles per hour.
How long after you leave home will you meet? How far from home will each of you be? Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You and your friend live 12 miles away from each other.
You leave home at the same time and travel toward each other.
You walk at a rate of 4 miles per hour and your friend bicycles at a rate of 11 miles per hour.
How long after you leave home will you meet? How far from home will each of you be?
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t = time (in hrs) for you to meet your friend
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When you meet, the sum distance of each will be 12 miles
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Write a distance equation; dist = speed * time
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4t + 11t = 12
15t = 12
t =
t = .8 hrs or .8*60 = 48 min after you leave home you will meet
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Find the distance each is from home
.8*4 = 3.2 mi from your home
.8*11 = 8.8 mi your friend is from home
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total: 12 mi confirms our solutions
