Mathematics, 23.09.2019 00:30 20warriorsoul14

Two cars simultaneously left points a and b and headed towards each other, and met after 2 hours and 45 minutes. the distance between points a and b is 264 miles. what is the speeds of the cars, if one of the cars travels 14 mph faster than the other?
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Answer from: pattydixon6

Hello!

The answers are:

$FirstCarSpeed=41mph\\SecondCarSpeed=55mph$

Why?

To calculate the speed of the cars, we need to write two equations in order to create a relation between the two speeds and be able to calculate one in function of the other.

So, let be the first car speed "x" and the second car speed "y", writing the equations we have:

For the first car:

$x_{FirstCar}=x_o+v*t$

For the second car:

We know that the speed of the second car travels 14 mph faster than the first car, so:

$x_{SecondCar}=x_o+(v+14mph)*t$

Now, we already know that both cars met after 2 hours and 45 minutes, and the distance between A and B is 264 miles, so, we can calculate the relative speed between both carsby the following way:

If the cars are moving towards each other the relative speed will be:

$RelativeSpeed=FirstCarSpeed-(-SecondCarspeed)\\\\RelativeSpeed=x-(-x-14mph)=2x+14mph$

So , since we know that they covered a combined distance equal to 264 miles in 2 hours + 45 minutes, we have:

$2hours+45minutes=120minutes+45minutes=165minutes\\\\\frac{165minutes*1hour}{60minutes}=2.75hours$

Writing the equation:

$264miles=(2x+14mph)*t\\\\264miles=(2x+14mph)*2.75hours\\\\2x+14mph=\frac{264miles}{2.75hours}\\\\2x=96mph-14mph\\\\x=\frac{82mph}{2}=41mph$

We have, the speed of the first car is equal to 41 mph.

Now, for the second car we have that:

$SecondCarSpeed=FirstCarSpeed+14mph\\\\SecondCarSpeed=41mph+14mph=55mph$

So, the speed of the second car is equal to 55 mph.

Hence, the answers are:

$FirstCarSpeed=41mph\\SecondCarSpeed=55mph$

Have a nice day!

Answer from: Quest

Answer: 10pi

x = central angle apc = measure of minor arc ac

the two angles x and 30 add to 180, so x+30 = 180 and x = 180-30 = 150. the measure of minor arc ac is 150 degrees.

what we need to do from here is find the circumference and then multiply it by x/360 since there are 360 degrees in a circle. in this case, x = 150, so x/360 = 150/360 = 15/36 = 5/12. the shortest distance along the curve from a to c is 5/12 of the distance around the entire circle (aka circumference)

c = circumference

c = pi*d

c = pi*24

c = 24pi

now multiply this by 5/12 to get

distance along minor arc ac = (5/12)*(circumference)

distance along minor arc ac = (5/12)*(24pi)

distance along minor arc ac = 10pi

the formula you can use is

l = (x/360)*pi*d

with

l = length of minor arc

x = central angle

d = diameter

which essentially is the steps we took though a bit differently.

Find the length of ac express your answer in terms of pi

Answer from: Quest

the answer for this question is 38

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