Question

can someone help me with this: Springfield and Futureland are 685 miles apart. At noon, Melanie leaves Springfield traveling toward Futureland at 50 miles per hour. 0.5 hours later, Sacheen leaves Futureland heading for Springfield at 60 miles per hour. How long before they will pass each other on the road?

Answer 1

Another systems of equations

Answer 2

Are you there?

Answer 3

Yahya?

Answer 4

Hi, yea sorry. I'm confused on how you came up with 685 = 685
50t = 60t - 30 though

Answer 5

oh I see. I just so used to seeing y=x+B lol. I ended up with 6 when I attemped to answer this. Its say the answer is 6.5 though.

Answer 6

its an an interesting answer t = 3, who actually has been travelling for 3 hours

melanie or sacheen...?


I'll leave you to figure it out

Answer 7

M = 50t
S = 60t - 30
D = 685
t = time it takes for Melanie and Sacheen to meet

50t + (60t - 30) = 685
50t + 60t - 30 = 685
110t - 30 = 685
110t = 685 - 30
110t = 655
t = 655/110
t = 5.9545...

t is approximately 6 hours

Answer 8

I rushed through the question too fast without reading it properly the first time

Answer 9

thanks hero... makes more sense now

Answer 10

M = 50t
S = 60t - 30
D = 685
t = time it takes for Melanie and Sacheen to meet

50t + (60t - 30) = 685
50t + 60t - 30 = 685
110t - 30 = 685
110t = 685 + 30
110t = 715
t = 715/110
t = 6.5

t = 6.5

Actually I made yet another mistake. But t is correct now.

Answer 11

Hero... you are amazing lol!

Answer 12

Nah, average at best considering the mistakes

Answer 13

@campbell_st sacheen has been traveling 30 min less than melanie wich is 6 hours and they pass each other at 6:30 p.m.

Answer 14

well you corrected them so above average now lol