liz

Teams 7 & 8


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1** Hi im from team 8 and we got 25 miles any comments? I am putting my answer down in case no one shows up. || ** Team member 2 ** Hola Im from team 5, we also got 25 miles. I think it is correct. I did the same thing as team member 1 put down. || ** Team member 3 ** i also got 25 miles and i agree with the process that team members 1 and 2 did || ** Team member 4 ** I also got 25 mph. :) ummm... idk what team im from...sorry...r we supposed to write out how we did it? @.@ just to be safe.... we did an equation, 7x+8x=15, figured that out; x=1. It took one hour for the horses to meetr 15 miles apart, and fly travels 25 mph. ok......? Idk if i was to explain or not, but.... oh well. :) || 5** Heyy guys! I think i was from team 5. Not sure. But we got 25 as our a answer as well. I thought this was pretty easy cus if its a 15 mile distance, and the horses are 7mph and 8mp, that added together is 15. Sooo, you know that in 1 hour they will meet. Then, it would taake the fly 25miles cus thats how long the fly can fly in an hour. This problem was pretty much all logic i think. || **Team member 6** Hi i dont remember what team I'm from, but my team also got 25 miles as the answer. || **Team member 7** || **Team member 8** ||
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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? To find the distance that the fly traveled between the two horses. 25 miles is how far the fly traveled. 8x+7x =15 is a D=rt problem for this problem. That gives you the answer of x =15. This means that the horses will meet in one hour. The fly traveled 25 miles per hour Thus the fly traveled 25 miles.
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If you complete the problem factoring in moving horses you will eventually get 25 miles traveled
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