a Car passes throough a tollbooth at 8:00 am and begins traveling east at an avarage speed of 45 mph. a second car passes through the same tollbooth at the same time an hour later and travels at an avarage speed of 60 mph.

write an equation for each car that relates the number of hours (x) since 8:00 am. to the distance (y) the car has traveled.
# please help, im stuck on this one

Question

a Car passes throough a tollbooth at 8:00 am and begins traveling east at an avarage speed of 45 mph. a second car passes through the same tollbooth at the same time an hour later and travels at an avarage speed of 60 mph.

write an equation for each car that relates the number of hours (x) since 8:00 am. to the distance (y) the car has traveled. 
 # please help, im stuck on this one

anonymous · Answer

First car:
y=45x

Second car:
y = 60(x-1)

anonymous · Answer

??

anonymous · Answer

ok so how do i graph this ?

anonymous · Answer

what calculator do you have

anonymous · Answer

just the computers calculator

anonymous · Answer

oh okay... not to sure how to graph that on the computers cal

anonymous · Answer

i just need to draw it out on graphing paper

anonymous · Answer

by hand you would just plug in the 45x into the other equation

anonymous · Answer

then solve for x and then would have your graph equation if I am thinking this out correctly

anonymous · Answer

ok thankyou

anonymous · Answer

I got no medal for giving two equations.

anonymous · Answer

sorry new here, dont really know anout all of this

anonymous · Answer

ca any of you help me with this problem its on my questions
 
[log x ^{3}(5-x ^{2})^{2}\div (x-3)^{4}  as the sum/ difference of logarithms with arguments with exponent 1.

anonymous · Answer

I new to this to thanks for the medal

anonymous · Answer

if neither car stopped, at what time will the second car atch up to the first