Problema Solution
two sailboats leave a marine 2 hours apart. the distance d, in miles, that each sailboat is from the marina at time t, measures in hours since the second sailboat left the marina, is given by d=8(t+2) for the first sailboat and d= 12t for the second
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The problem statement is ambiguous since the second sailboat left 2 hours after the first sailboat left... we assume that they question is something like "after how many hours were the two sailboats at the same distance".
d=8(t+2)
d=12t
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d=48
t=4
So after 4 hours both sailboats will have travelled 48 miles.