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I agree with all of my team members 7x + 8x = 15x then we must get x to stand alone: divide 15x by 15 that is one, and the fly travels 25 mph so multiply 25 * 1 and you get 25 miles. __Use this page to post and discuss ideas with the goal of eventually having one final response to answer this months POTM.__**
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1** 25 MILES =] || ** Team member 2 ** Wow! Team member 1, that was a great explanation! Thank you for the work that you added. I agree with your answer of 25, btw. || ** Team member 3 ** i agreee with 25. and haha team #2 and 1. and i like how you put up a picture of your work! that was really nice of you. :] OI! 1 of u guys took my spot as 3! anyway nice job everyone. I agree with everyones answer || ** Team member 4 ** . i like the work you added Team Member 1! i agree. the fly flew 25 miles. GO FLY! =] || 5** I also agree that the fly flew 25 miles. This is a picture illustrating the problem. ^^ || **Team member 6** yea i also agree with every1 else. and i think the answers 25 miles. || **Team member 7** Hi, yes i agree with everybody that the answer is 25 miles. || **Team member 8** Everyone is right, 25 miles. The key thing is to know that when the fly turns around *it does not lose anytime* 9 ||  Team member 10 || **Team member 11** I agree with everyone that the answer is 25. The only thing I dont get is how to check this problem, no one seems to know how. Also I agree with team member 8`s work. Thats how I figured out what the answer was. || **Team member 12** || 13 || **Team member 14** || **Team member 15** || **Team member 16** ||
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 * I agree with all of my team members 7x + 8x = 15x then we must get x to stand alone: divide 15x by 15 that is one, and the fly travels 25 mph so multiply 25 * 1 and you get 25 miles.** ||
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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? **// TEAM BOB: 1 point //**** State ** what the problem is looking for. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> How far has the fly flown when the horses meet? <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fly flew <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">25 miles when the horses meet. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Let x = the number of hour(s) needed for the horses to meet. 7x+8x = 15 miles to get when the time needed for the horses to meet. we combine like terms: 15x = 15 Then we get the x alone by dividing 15. 15x/15 = 15/15 x=1 It takes 1 hour for the horses to meet. The question is looking for how many miles the fly flew by the time the two horses meet. If the fly flies 25 miles per hour, the fly flies 25 miles in 1 hour. 25(1)=25
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 * Horse 1 || 7 || x || 7x ||
 * Horse 2 || 8 || x || 8x ||

7x + 8x = 15 x=1 (1 hour when they meet)


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 * Fly || 25 || 1 || 25 ||

25(1) = 25 (25 miles!)

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It is correct, because the fly can only fly 25 miles no matter how many turns the fly took. (25 mph) Another way of doing this problem is to draw a chart/picture that represents the horse traveling and the fly flying toward the horse and back then going again until the horses meet. I think that would take too much time to do, because i kept getting weird numbers such as 1.6903409 miles with the bar on top of 09. Here's a way to solve the problem using a picture:
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It's not done, but I believe that if you keep graphing it we will get 25 miles flown for the fly, too.
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