SOLUTION: a car leaves a town 20 minutes after a bus. The speed of the car is 10 kph faster than the bus. After travelling 100kms, the car overtakes the bus. What is the speed of each vehicl

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Question 712386: a car leaves a town 20 minutes after a bus. The speed of the car is 10 kph faster than the bus. After travelling 100kms, the car overtakes the bus. What is the speed of each vehicle?

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a car leaves a town 20 minutes after a bus.
The speed of the car is 10 kph faster than the bus.
After traveling 100kms, the car overtakes the bus.
What is the speed of each vehicle?
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Let s = bus speed
then
(s+10) = car speed
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Change 20 min to 1/3 hr
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When the car overtakes the bus both will have traveled 100 km
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Write a time equation; time t=dist/speed
Bus time = 20 min + Car time
= +
multiply by 3s(s+10) resulting in
3(s+10)(100) = s(s+10) + 3s(100)
300s + 3000 = s^2 + 10s + 300s
Arrange as a quadratic equation
0 = s^2 + 10s + 300s - 300s - 3000
s^2 + 10s - 3000 = 0
Factors to
(s + 60)(s - 50) = 0
The positive solution
s = 50 mph is the bus
then, obviously,
60 mph is the car
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See if this checks out. Find the travel time of each
100/50 = 2 hrs for the bus
100/60 = 1 hrs
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differ by hr or 20 min