Problema Solution
a car travel 150 miles in the same amount of time it takes a truck to travel 110 miles. the car travels 10 miles per hour faster than the truck. how much time did the vehicles spend traveling?
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Let 't' represent the time spent traveling/
Car's rate is: v1 = 150/t mph
Truck's rate is: v2 = 110/t mph
Since the car travels 10 mph hour faster we have:
v1 = v2 + 10
150/t = 110/t + 100
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t = 0.4 hr
t = 0.4*60 min
t = 24 min
The vehicles spent 24 minutes traveling.