Question 218316
Two row boats are traveling at a steady speed of 10 miles/hr straight toward each other. At the moment when they are 40 miles apart, a messenger pigion takes off from one of the boats and flies at a steady speed of 25 miles/hr directly to the other boat. It touches the second boat, turns around instantly, and returns at the same steady speed to the first boat. When it touches the first boat, it instantly turns around again and heads directly back to the second boat. The pegion repeats this back and forth flight pattern over and over again at the same speed until the boats meet. From the moment the pigion took off from the firts boat until the final meting of the boats, how much was the pegions total mileage?
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using the relative speed of the two boats (which is 20 mph), how long to travel 40 mi?
t = 40/20
t = 2 hrs
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How far can the bird fly in 2 hrs at 25 mph
2 * 25 = 50 miles