SOLUTION: Your friend is traveling 3mph faster than you. Together you travel 11 miles in 1 hour. How many miles did each of you travel in that hour?

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Question 522449: Your friend is traveling 3mph faster than you. Together you travel 11 miles in 1 hour. How many miles did each of you travel in that hour?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) About Me  (Show Source):
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Your friend is traveling 3mph faster than you.
Together you travel 11 miles in 1 hour.
How many miles did each of you travel in that hour?
:
Let s = your speed
then
(s+3) = friend's speed
:
Write a distance equation, dist = speed * time
1s + 1(s+3) = 11
1s + 1s + 3 = 11
2s = 11 - 3
2s = 8
s = 4 mph, friend: 7 mph
Dist the same: you 4 mi, friend 7 mi