Question

Claudia is considering taking a vacation but she's not sure if she wants to drive or fly somewhere. She realized that it would take her the same amount of time to drive 150 miles as it would take a plane to fly 1350 miles. If the plane is flying 400 mph faster than the car, how fast is each traveling?

Answer 1

Solution

For this case we know that the distance covered by the plane is 1350 mi and the velocity 400 mph

We also know that the distance is given by:

D= vt

Let D= Distance travelled by the car and airplane

Vp= Vc+ 400 (Velocity of the plane)

1350 = (Vc +400)*t

150 = Vc * t

We can solve for t and we got:

t= 150/Vc

Replacing in the first equation we got:

1350= (Vc+400)* (150/Vc)

Solving for Vc we got:

1350= 150 + 60000/Vc

1200 = 60000/Vc

Vc= 60000/1200= 50 mph

Then the velocity of the car is Vc= 50mph and for the plane

Vp= 50+ 400= 450 mph