SOLUTION: A bus leaves LA traveling at 50 mi/hr. An hour later a car traveling on the same road leaves at 70 mi/hr to try to overtake the bus. how far from LA does the car overtake the bus?
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Question 834632: A bus leaves LA traveling at 50 mi/hr. An hour later a car traveling on the same road leaves at 70 mi/hr to try to overtake the bus. how far from LA does the car overtake the bus? Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Notice the slow vehicle leaves first and travels for more time. In this example, the time difference is 1 hour. The slow vehicle travels for t+1 hours of time. The faster but later-starting vehicle travels for some t hours of time. t is an unknown variable. When that information is straight, then continue....
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t = time for the car to meet the same distance as the traveling bus
d = the distance from LA that car and distance match
... Further process is not continued here (yet), but you try to solve the example exercise yourself, from what has been presented so far. Can you continue and finish?
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