Question

Distance, Spee and Time

A pilot flew a jet from Montreal to Los Angeles, a distance of 2500mi. On the return trip, the average speed was 20% faster than the outbound speed. The round trip took 9 hours 10minutes. What was the speed from Montreal to Los Angeles?

Answer 1

Any ideas?

Answer 2

Nope

Answer 3

Do you know the distance formula?

Answer 4

@angelita321 are you still there?

Answer 5

Yes I know it

Answer 6

I. Was trying to type it :O

Answer 7

Distance traveled = rate * time traveled

$$d=rt$$

Answer 8

D=√(x2-x1)^(2)+(y2-y1))

Answer 9

That is the formula for points on a plane, This is a rate-time-distance word problem, right?

Answer 10

Yea

Answer 11

Have you used the formula d=rt before?

Answer 12

Not really

Answer 13

I hope you are familiar with distance (d) and time (t), so that leaves rate (r) as the distance traveled per unit of time traveled, right?

Answer 14

Aha

Answer 15

Making a sketch may help with word problems.

Answer 16

Okay