SOLUTION: PLEASE HELP ME TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. PROB.1. Two snails are 432cm apart. If they travel toward each other at rates that differ by 2cm/minute and it takes the

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Question 627811: PLEASE HELP ME TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
PROB.1. Two snails are 432cm apart. If they travel toward each other at rates that differ by 2cm/minute and it takes them 27 min to meet how fast is each snail going?

PROB.2. Pado cycled to his grandmother's house at 15km/h and returned home over the route at 18km/h. If the whole trip took 7h and 20minutes, how far does Paolo live from his grandmother's house?
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Let cm/min be the rate of one snail and then cm/min is the rate of the other snail. They are traveling toward each other, so add the rates: .

Distance divided by time equals rate, so:



Solve for , then calculate

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