Question

A car leaves town traveling at 40mi/h. Two hours later, a second car leaves the same town, on the same road, traveling at 60mi/h. In how many hours will the second car pass the first car? Use formula d=rt

Answer 1

Ok the best thing to do here is to make a table and then analyze what the question is asking...exactly. Heres the table for the first car and the time it leaves. We will fill in the second car's info next.

Answer 2

This means that car 1 leaves at a specific time, we don't know exactly what time, and drives 40 miles per hour.

Answer 3

Now here is the kind of tricky part about the second car. We know it drives at 60 miles per hour, we are told that, but we are also told that it leaves 2 hours later. So that would fill the table in like this for the second car: