thomas


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1** Hi im from team 8 and we got 25 miles any comments? || ** Team member 2 ** The last round of this I came up with the answer of 25 miles. WHat do you guys think?
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THis is what I wrote last time: I drew a picture of the horses on the country road and the fly flying back and forth. I noticed that the horses would meet after an hour.(because they are 15 miles apart and one horse travels 8 miles in an hr and the other one travels 7 miles in an hr.) So then i figured out that the fly flies 25 miles in an hr. so that means the fly had flown 25 miles by the time they met. || ** Team member 3 ** I would agree that it is twenty five and i drew the horses(rather poorly) and i drew the fly as well. Then I also realized the horses would meet in an hour because one is traveling 7mph and the other at 8 mph, that equals fifteen which was the distance between the two horses when they began. THen the fly was flying twenty ive mph and they wanted to know when the horse would meet how long it would have travelled it travelled 25 mies by the time the horses met. I would like to know did everyone else get the answer the same way? Please respond!!!!!!! || ** Team member 4 ** I agree wit the final answer of 25. Like team member 3 i also drew a picture to visualize it. || 5** I got the answer 25 miles just like team member # 1,2,3 & 4. =] || **Team member 6** || **Team member 7** I also got 25 by doing this equation:
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7x + 8x =15 15x = 15 15x/15 = 15/15 x = 1

I now knew that it took 1 hour for the horses to meet. I also knew that the horse fly was flying at 25mph, so in 1 hour (when the horses meet) the horse fly would have flown 25 miles. || **Team member 8** || 9 ||  Team member 10 || **Team member 11** || **Team member 12** || 13 || **Team member 14** || **Team member 15** || **Team member 16** ||
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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? <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * // 1 point //**** State ** what the problem is looking for.

the problem is looking for the total distance the fly flew.


 * // 2 points //**** Answer ** the problem correctly.

the fly flew 25 miles because each horse has to travel 1 hr. to meet, and the fly flies to each horse at 25 miles per hour. So, the reasonably answer would be 25 miles.


 * // 5 points //**** Explain the process ** you used to solve the problem.

I added the rate of travel of each horse to see the total distance they would be traveling in 1 hr. They happened to sum to 15 miles, so the horses had to walk just 1 hour to meet. The fly flies at 25 miles per hour, so the fly would travel a total of 25 miles by the time the horses meet.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">I drew a picture of the two horses on the country road and the fly flying back and forth. I noticted also noticed that the horses would meet after an hour.(because they are 15 miles apart and one horse travels 8 miles in an hour and the other one travels 7miles in an hr. <span style="color: #0b0aff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">So, 8 miles plus 7 miles would be 15 miles, which was what they began with. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> So then i figured out that the fly flies 25 miles in an hr. so that means the fly had flown 25 miles by the time they me. (Team member 2)


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