Two Towns

Algebra Level 2

A car travelled from Arrowfront to Boulderfort at a speed of 30 30 km/h.

The car then returned from Boulderfort along the same highway, this time at a speed of 60 60 km/h.

What was the average driving speed for the two trips?

Note: Input your answer in terms of km/h.

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The answer is 40.

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2 solutions

Ethan Mandelez
May 9, 2020

There might be several ways of approaching this problem, here's how I did it:

We find a Common Multiple of 30 and 60: 180.

Then, the time taken to travel from Arrowfront to Boulderfort is 6h (since 180/30 = 6)

The time taken to return from Boulderfort is 3h (since 180/60 = 3)

We calculate the total time and distance for the two trips, which is 9h and 360km repsectively.

Finally, the average driving speed for the two trips was 360/9 = 40km/h.

Just C
Apr 7, 2021

Given some arbitrary value x x as the distance between Arrowfront and Boulderfort, we know that the car took x 30 + x 60 \displaystyle{{x}\over{30}}+{{x}\over{60}} hours to go and come back from Boulderfort. The average time would have to be: ( 2 x 60 + x 60 ) × 0.5 = ( 3 x 60 ) × 0.5 = ( x 20 ) × 0.5 = x 40 \displaystyle{({{2x}\over{60}}+{{x}\over{60}}) \times 0.5=({{3x}\over{60}}) \times 0.5=({{x}\over{20}})\times 0.5={{x}\over{40}}} . Since x x represents distance and 40 40 represents speed in k m / h km/h , the answer must be 40 \boxed{40} .

Thanks for your solution!

Ethan Mandelez - 2 months ago

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