SOLUTION: "A police car is chasing the getaway car of bank robbers 7.5 km ahead. If the speed of the police car is 5kph more than that of the getaway car, how long will it take the police ca

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Question 385365: "A police car is chasing the getaway car of bank robbers 7.5 km ahead. If the speed of the police car is 5kph more than that of the getaway car, how long will it take the police car to overtake the getaway car?"

Found 2 solutions by mananth, stanbon:
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
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"A police car is chasing the getaway car of bank robbers 7.5 km ahead. If the speed of the police car is 5kph more than that of the getaway car, how long will it take the police car to overtake the getaway car?"

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t=d/r
t= 7.5/5
t=1.5 hours
they will catch up in 1.5 hours
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m.ananth@hotmail.ca

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
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A police car is chasing the getaway car of bank robbers 7.5 km ahead. If the speed of the police car is 5kph more than that of the getaway car, how long will it take the police car to overtake the getaway car?----
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Getaway car DATA:
distance will be x km before being overtaken.
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Police car DATA:
distance will be x + 7.5 km before overtaking the getaway car.
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Time = 7.5 km/5 kph = 1.5 hours
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Cheers,
Stan H.