Felecia left her home to visit her daughter, driving 45mph. Her husband waited for the dog sitter to arrive and left home 20 min
1 answer:
Felecia's husband will catch up to her 1 hour 30 minutes after leaving.
Step-by-step explanation:
Step 1; Felecia is traveling at 45 mph, her husband starts 20 minutes after her but travels at a speed of 55 mph. So first we need to calculate how much of a head start Felecia got.
Head start = × 45 miles an hour = 15 miles.
So Felecia got a head start of 15 miles.
Step 2; Since Felecia and her husband are traveling at different rates, we can determine how much distance there is between them. Since Felecia is traveling at 45 mph and her husband is traveling at 55 mph, their gap in between is closing at a rate of 55 - 45 = 10 miles every hour. So for every hour, the gap between them is closing by 10 miles.
Total gap initially = 15 miles.
The rate at which gap is being closed = 10 miles an hour.
Time to close the gap = 15 / 10 = 1.5 hours.
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Answer: Choice B
a = 42, b = 5, c = 28, d = 33, e = 10
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Explanation:
Refer to the diagram below. We have a table of values in which some values (if not most) are unknown. We have variables as placeholders until we can figure out which numbers replace them.
Along the bottom row, we see that 70+e = 80, which solves to e = 10. I subtracted 70 from both sides.
That must mean the answer is between choice A or choice B.
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Since e = 10, and b+5 = e (third column), we can replace the 'e' with 10 to get the equation b+5 = 10. That solves to b = 5. This rules out choice A.
The final answer is choice B
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If you want to keep going to find a, c and d, then let's solve a+b = 47 which is the same as a+5 = 47 after replacing letter b with 5.
a+5 = 47 solves to a = 42 after subtracting both sides by 5.
Then along the first column, we see that a+c = 70 which is the same as 42+c = 70. Isolating c gets us c = 28
Lastly, c+5 = d is shown along the second row. Plug in c = 28 to find that d = c+5 = 28+5 = 33
So overall we have:
a = 42, b = 5, c = 28, d = 33, e = 10
Answer:
30 ft
Step-by-step explanation:
This is a classic right triangle problem, where the length of the ladder represents the hypotenuse, where the ladder is lengthwise from the building is the base of the triangle, and what we are looking for is the height of the triangle. Pythagorean's Theorem will help us find this length.
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1024 - 100 = y^2 and
y = 30.4 so 30 feet