Step 1: Assign variable for the unknown that you need to find.

Step 2: List the given details
Distance between you and your friend is 12 miles. It means the total distance traveled by you by walk and your friend using bicycle when both travel towards each other to meet in 't' hours
Equation 1:

Your Walking rate and your friends Cycling rate is given below:

Step 3: Set up an equation using the relationship between distance, time and rate.


Substituting the above in equation 1

Distance traveled by you by walking from home and distance travelled by your friend in cycle in 0.8 hours is given below:

Y - 1 = 4y - 2/3. Move the ys over to one side, +4y crosses over to become -4y,
and -1 crosses over the right side to become +1.
y -4y = -2/3 + 1
-3y = 1 - 2/3
-3y = 1/3 Divide both sides by -3.
-3y/-3 = (1/3) / -3.
y = 1/3 * -1/3
y = - 1/9
Answer:
5.71428571429
Step-by-step explanation:
This is a well known joke:
Why six afraid of seven? Because seven ate nine!
It is supposed to be a "word game" where instead of writing eight, the authour wrote ate, which sound the same but means something different.
Hope it helped,
Happy homework/ study/ exam!