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Teams 3 & 4


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1** Okay- so last time I did this, I got 25 as my answer. I was a little skeptical, but it looked right from the facts: we know they will take an hour to meet (8mph+7mph=15mph) from when the fly starts flying. If the fly flies 25 mph, it will fly 25 mi in that one hour. How does this sound? || ** Team member 2 ** i agreewith #4. so it wouldnt lose time. i think 25 is the right answer. i checked my work. and #1, i dont think 25 is logical because a fly going 25 miled is a little too fast for a fly to go ;) i strongly think 25 is the correct answer.
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I am not really sure what you mean. Well, I guess you're right! It isn't logical, but it//is// simple. I think that's what I meant, so sorry if I confused anyone other than myself. :D || ** Team member 3 ** Pretty good #1 yet the problem says that the fly would turn. Wouldn't that decrease the amount of time it flys or its miles?

Yes I think you are completely right but I'm not sure how that would be represented. How much would it be decreased? How much less would it fly? It hink that if we all find the the answer to these questions, we could possibly have the right answer! but I am not sure how to get there. I only decided 25 because it just sounded logical. || ** Team member 4 ** After checking my work i still got the answer of 25. And number 3, the fly wouldn't loose time because in the problem it says that "No sooner does the fly reach that horse than it turns around __"__ __ (losing no time on the turn) " __ ​ ​ i agreewith #4. so it wouldnt lose time. i think 25 is the right answer. i checked my work. and #1, i dont think 25 is logical because a fly going 25 miled is a little too fast for a fly to go ;) i strongly think 25 is the correct answer. || 5** || **Team member 6** i still am alittle confused on the 25 like i think that is the right answer but only because people keep on saying is i am still confused on how to get there the work at the bottom made alittle sence to me but the part i am stuck on is why an hour why not 45 min. and i don't know i am just stuck one that part i know i am really slow but i have tried distance rate and time i don't know what to fill them in with please help!
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 I agree, everyone says it's 25. But it seems so simple, right? Lots of people drew pictures or distance rate and time problems, but I just wrote it out. How did you get the 45? Maybe figuring that part out will help. || **Team member 7** I agree with everybody that the answer is 25. The work there at the bottom where it says expalin the process is all of my work from last time which someone pasted there SCANDAL ! Anyway, I really don't know what you are talking about with the whole 45 thing. If you are talking about why it says an hour it is because it is mph=miles per hour. So, if one walks 8 miles in an hour and the other walks 7 miles in an hour if they are walking towards eachother they will walk a total of 15 miles when they meet which is how far apart when they started. || **Team member 8** ||

Two horses approach each other along the same country road, one walking at 8 mph, and the other at 7 mph. When the horses are 15 miles apart, a horsefly leaves one horse and flies at 25 mph towards the other. No sooner does the fly reach that horse than it turns around (losing no time on the turn) and returns to the first horse. If the fly continues to fly back and forth between the approaching horses, how far has the fly flow when the horses meet? The problem is looking for how far the fly has flown when both horses meet.
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The fly would've flown 25 miles by the time that the horses meet.

We found that when one horse walked 8 miles and the other walked 7 miles it would be 15 miles in an hour. Then, we made an equation out of it to figure out how far the fly woulf fly in an hour. The equation was __15__= __x__ x=36 minutes to travel 15 miles. 25 60 Then, we set up a second equation to see how many more miles the fly would fly to be an hour. __24__ = __x__ x=10 miles to travel for 24 minutes. 60 25 Then, we added the 10 miles to the 15 miles to get __**//25 miles all together//**__.
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Final answer=25
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