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Rushing to Get Home.

Rushing to Get Home.

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A person drives from A to B to get to work at a constant speed of 30 km/hr. They were running a little late for a hot date, so they decided to rush a little bit on the way home. If the average speed the person traveled over the round trip form A to B and B to A was 55 km/hr, how fast were they traveling on the way home?

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@joe-shmo
80kph

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@liljo said
@joe-shmo
80kph
You can't add the speeds and divide by 2 to get 55 because the amount of time taken is different for each.

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@ashiitaka said
You can't add the speeds and divide by 2 to get 55 because the amount of time taken is different for each.
Correct because 55 is an average itself.
I think the equations are 30+x/2 =55
30x/55= y," y " being the answer.
I'll try it later.

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165 km/h?

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Still Open

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@joe-shmo said
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Ok. I got the formula slightly wrong, but I have amended it and arrived at an answer.
I can only hope there were no police about when he was driving home!!
330 kph

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@venda

Correct!

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@venda

Feel free to write up the solution if you'd like.

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