SOLUTION: mark and anthony lived 560 miles apart. they are planning to meet somewhere on the way. if mark travels at 20 mph and anthony travels at 50 mph and they leave at the same time, how

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Question 549028: mark and anthony lived 560 miles apart. they are planning to meet somewhere on the way. if mark travels at 20 mph and anthony travels at 50 mph and they leave at the same time, how far will mark travel before they meet.
Answer by mathie123(224) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's first solve for the time that is traveled before they meet.
We will call this time t
We have the following formula
20%2At%2B50%2At=560
70%2At=560
t=560%2F70
t=8

So we need to find how far Mark traveled in 8 hours.
If mark is traveling 20 miles per hour, and he traveled for 8 hours... I will let you do the rest (use these two pieces of information to find the distance-- it may help to look at how we added the distances earlier in the equation))
Let me know if you are still unsure:)