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by sampath » Fri May 20, 2011 1:58 am
A car traveled from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 6 hours at an average rate of x miles per hour. If the car
returned along the same route at an average rate of y miles per hour, how long did it take for the car to make the entire round trip, in minutes?
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by pemdas » Fri May 20, 2011 2:18 am
distance between LA and S-F is 6x; the trip back was timed as 6x/y hours
we need to find time in minutes (6+ 6x/y)*60= 360(x+y)/y
sampath wrote:A car traveled from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 6 hours at an average rate of x miles per hour. If the car
returned along the same route at an average rate of y miles per hour, how long did it take for the car to make the entire round trip, in minutes?
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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Sat May 21, 2011 7:40 am
sampath wrote:A car traveled from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 6 hours at an average rate of x miles per hour. If the car returned along the same route at an average rate of y miles per hour, how long did it take for the car to make the entire round trip, in minutes?
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