A car traveled twice as fast on a dry road as it did making the return on a slippery road. the trip was 60 mi each way, and the

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Alina [70]

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A car traveled twice as fast on a dry road as it did making the return on a slippery road. the trip was 60 mi each way, and the

round trip took 35 hr.

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Mariulka [41] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-14T20:22:07+03:00

If it was 60 miles round trip, each way was therefore 30 miles.
Let x represent the hours taken on the dry road. Slippery road was then 2x. 2x + x = 3x. 35 / 3 = 11.66… = x.
So, on the dry road, the car took 11.66… hours.
For the slippery one, 2 * 11.66… or 23.33… hours.
Convert to mph, shall we?
Dry road:
30 miles / 11.66… hours = 2.57… mph.
Slippery road:
30 miles / 23.33… hours = 1.28… mph.
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