Question

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Answer 1

Answer: 240 miles

Explanation: Since Truck A moves 40 miles in one hour, we can say that the truck traveled 40 miles after 1 hour, 80 miles after 2 hours, 120 miles after 3 hours, 160 miles after 4 hours, 200 miles after 5 hours, and 240 miles after 6 hours.

Now since Truck B moves 60 miles in one hour, it moved 60 miles in one hour, 120 miles in 2 hours, 180 miles in 3 hours, and 240 miles in 4 hours.

So when the question tells you that both trucks arrived at the same time, you can find the answer by looking for the distance where the two trucks met. So in this case, it would be 240 miles because Truck A took 6 hours to get to 240 miles and Truck B took 4 hours to get to 240 miles and since Truck A moved 2 hours ahead of Truck B, the answer would be correct.

Therefore, Dover county is 240 miles away from the loading dock.

Sorry about the bad explanation (the answer is correct though)