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Three hours after a car leaves Atlanta traveling at an average velocity of 70mph, a highway patrolman leaves from the same starting point to overtake the car. If the average vel
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Three hours after a car leaves Atlanta traveling at an average velocity of 70mph, a highway patrolman leaves from the same starting point to overtake the car. If the average velocity of the patrolman is 100mph, how far from Atlanta will the patrolman travel before he overtakes the car? Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 70T=100(T-3)
70T=100T-300
100T-70T=300
30T=300
T=300/30
T=10 HOURS BEFORE THE CAR IS OVERTAKEN BY THE COP
SO THE COP'S TIME IS 10-3=7 HOURS @ 100MPH =700 MILES
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