The price of Stock A at 9 A.M. was $15.75. Since then, the price has been increasing at the rate of $0.05 per hour. At noon,
the price of Stock B was $16.53. It begins to decrease at a rate of $0.13 per hour. If the stocks continue to increase and decrease at the same rates, in how many hours will the prices of the stocks be the same? The prices of the stocks will be the same
nothing hour(s) after noon.
We are actually given here a right triangle where EC is
the hypotenuse. The length of one side is AE = 24, and the other side AC is
simply twice BC, so AC = 7:
