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At the same time, Jim and Tony biked from home to their [#permalink]
 12 Jan 2006, 05:53
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At the same time, Jim and Tony biked from home to their school. If their respective speed in the whole trip are constant, how much time earlier will Jim arrive than Tony?
1) The distance between home and school is 200 miles
2) Jim bikes 10 miles per hour faster than Tony
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E) We do not know the ratio between their respective speeds
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its between C or E, but I am going with E, because as BG mentioned, we dont know what those relative speeds were, and without that info we cannot calculate a definite time.
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E. Need some way to figure out Tony's speed, right?
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E. We need speed of one of the cyclists. Their relative constant speeds aren't enought to solve for time.
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E... both r INSUFF...we need to know the speeds.
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oa is E
n=speed of tony
m=speed of mary
s=d/t
abs(d/m-d/n) = d(n-m)/mn
I. dont know what m, n are
II. dont know what m,n or d are
both. dont know what m, n are.
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joemama142000 wrote: At the same time, Jim and Tony biked from home to their school. If their respective speed in the whole trip are constant, how much time earlier will Jim arrive than Tony?
1) The distance between home and school is 200 miles
2) Jim bikes 10 miles per hour faster than Tony E simple reasoning 1)insuf cause we don't know distance between (which )home and school is 200 miles 2) Jim bikes 10 miles per hour faster than Tony[/quote]Insuff cause we don't know whats Tony's speed
Hence E
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e becuse we dont know either person's rate (necessary for solving the eqquation) or at least a ratio between their rates so we can respond with a ratio (ie m=1/2t)
kind of an easy one, no?
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Yurik79, it can be inferred from the question stem that both homes are 200m from the school (I hope!!)
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