SOLUTION: What would be the equation for, A friend calls you and asks you to meet at a location 3 miles from your home in 20 minutes. You set off on your bike after the telephone call. Write

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Question 347307: What would be the equation for, A friend calls you and asks you to meet at a location 3 miles from your home in 20 minutes. You set off on your bike after the telephone call. Write and solve an inequality to find out an average rate in miles per minute you could ride to be at your meeting place within 20 minutes?
Answer by nyc_function(2741) About Me  (Show Source):
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speed=(distance/time)

distance to be travelled=3miles

therefore....distance/speed is less than or equal to time

3/speed is less than or equal to 20mins

therefore cross multiply

speed greater than or equal to (3/20)miles per min