Question

* Two cars started to move from C and from D, towards one another. The car that starts at point C moves twice as fast as the car that starts at point D. How far from Boston will these two cars meet?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer to the question is

If Boston is at D and C is 90 km away from Boston, then the two cars will meet at 30 km from Boston.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the speed of the car that start from C = V₁

Let the speed of the car that start from D = V₂

Therefore where V₁ = 2·V₂

We have at time t when the cars meet the distance covered by the car that start from C will be V₁×t = 2·V₂×t, while the distance of the other car will be

V₂×t

Which means that the distance covered by the car that start from C is twice that of the car that start from D

Hence if Boston is located at D which is 90 km from C then both cars will meet at

90 km /3 = 30 km from Boston as the car originating from Boston would only have covered 30 km when the two cars meet.