9x17 is greater. I’d say you can tell because 17 is greater than 15 so the product would be greater too
I think it’s 25 and two half’s
First we need to find out the time it took for the truck to reach town B.



Now, because the van left 1.5 hours earlier and reached the destination 2.5 hours before, it took 1 hour less the the truck to arrive.

which is the time it took for the van to arrive.
Now we use the speed equation again to work out speed.


= speed of van
Hope this helped :)
The first step to solving this problem is Multiplying In(x-1).
X=5+y
Substitute the value of x in second equation
28x – 9y= -12
28 (5+y)-9y =-12
140 +28y -9y =-12
140 +19y= -12
19y = - 152
y= -8
Now let's find the value of x using y
x= 5+y
x= 5 + (-8)
= -3
So,
x= -3
y=-8