SOLUTION: a truck dives along the highway at a constant rate of 60 mph, as it passes a rest area. Exactly 9 minutes later, a truck driving 70 mph passes the same rest area. how long will it
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Question 984778: a truck dives along the highway at a constant rate of 60 mph, as it passes a rest area. Exactly 9 minutes later, a truck driving 70 mph passes the same rest area. how long will it take the faster try k to catch up to the slower truck? how far from the rest area will they beat that time? Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Convert the 9 minutes to hours.
So if we start the clock when the second truck passes the rest area, the first truck is, ahead.
So then,
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The distance from the rest area would be,
