SOLUTION: Bill walks from his home to the city in 4 hours. He can travel the same distance on his bicycle in 1 hour. If he rides at 6 km/h faster than he walks, what is his bicycling rate?
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Question 5492: Bill walks from his home to the city in 4 hours. He can travel the same distance on his bicycle in 1 hour. If he rides at 6 km/h faster than he walks, what is his bicycling rate?
thanks for the help! Answer by Abbey(339) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! his walking rate is 1/4 the distance every hour
his riding rate is the whole distance every hour
Let x=riding rate
let = walking rate
riding rate is 6kmh faster, so
Multiply through by 4 to clear the denominator:
subtract x from both sides:
divide both sides by 3:
so he rides at 8 km per hour
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