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Meteor Shower Tonight. I'm drawing a picture just like other prblems we did. Be back later with some more info.
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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 flown when the horses meet? How far has the fly flown when the horses meet? **// 2 points //**** Answer ** the problem correctly. The fly flew 25 miles. **// 5 points //**** Explain the process ** you used to solve the problem. 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 has the fly flew bu 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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**// 2 points //**** Justify ** your answer. 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: It's not done, but I believe that if you keep graphing it we will get 25 miles flown for the fly, too.

You must use D=R*T to solve this problem I have the answer I think but I am just not really sure how to solve it I am almost there.