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If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 mile long, how many seconds did it take Car X to travel across the bridge?

(1) Car X drove onto the bridge exactly 3 seconds after Car Y drove onto the bridge and drove off the bridge exactly 2 seconds after Car Y drove off the bridge.
(2) Car Y traveled across the bridge at a constant speed of 30 miles per hour.

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If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 mile long, how many seconds did it take Car X to travel across the bridge?

Let the time needed for car X to travel across the bridge be t_x seconds and the time needed for car Y be t_y seconds.

(1) Car X drove onto the bridge exactly 3 seconds after car Y drove onto the bridge and drove off the bridge exactly 2 seconds after car Y drove off the bridge --> car X needs 1 second less to travel across the bridge than car Y --> t_y=t_x+1. Not sufficient to calculate t_x.

(2) Car Y traveled across the bridge at a constant speed of 30 miles per hour. 30 miles per hour is \frac{30}{3600}=\frac{1}{120} miles per second --> car Y needs t_y=\frac{(\frac{1}{2})}{(\frac{1}{120})}=60 seconds to travel across the bridge. Not sufficient to calculate t_x.

(1)+(2) t_y=t_x+1 and t_y=60 --> t_x=60-1=59. Sufficient.

Answer: C.
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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

16 Sep 2012, 21:43

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Can this not be vvorked out just vvith A

--> since distances are equal
then equate

SX. Tx = Sy. Ty

Is this not possible

then in that case statement 1 becomes sufficient please explain

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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

16 Sep 2012, 22:48

The question asks the time taken by X to cross the bridge.

How come? Statement 1 helps us to get the relationship between X and Y wrt time. It does not tell us the time taken by Y to cross

Statement 2 gives us the time taken by Y to cross the bridge.

Both the statements together are sufficient.

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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

02 May 2013, 20:07

Banuel,

I'm not seeing it, is there a way you can list the three or four item being tested? and what makes the answer sufficient?

Time?
Rate of Speed?
Distance?
Any other?

Thanks.

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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

03 May 2013, 03:52

laythesmack23 wrote:

Banuel,

I'm not seeing it, is there a way you can list the three or four item being tested? and what makes the answer sufficient?

Time?
Rate of Speed?
Distance?
Any other?

Thanks.

Not sure I understand what you mean...

Anyway, we need to get t_x.

From (1) we have that t_y=t_x+1 and from (2) we have that t_y=60, thus t_x=60-1=59.
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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

03 May 2013, 16:43

In such questions, i look at the short concise option 1st. I look at B and it doesn't talk about one of the two cars. Eliminate answer choice B and D. Now look at A, it gives a relation between time.
We can form two eqn for two cars using speed distance formulae. For 1st car assume all capital letters for its calculations.
S= D/T
For 2nd car , assume small letters:
s=D/t

Now we know that t=T-1 since it took one sec less to travel the bridge.
We also know the length of the bridge. However we don't know the speeds of time in absolute numbers to determine the answer. So we can't get anywhere with the 2Eqns.

Now add info from B and we can compute our answer. hence C.

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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

07 May 2013, 06:18

Bunuel wrote:

laythesmack23 wrote:

Banuel,

I'm not seeing it, is there a way you can list the three or four item being tested? and what makes the answer sufficient?

Time?
Rate of Speed?
Distance?
Any other?

Thanks.

Not sure I understand what you mean...

Anyway, we need to get t_x.

From (1) we have that t_y=t_x+1 and from (2) we have that t_y=60, thus t_x=60-1=59.

The concept being tested here is RTD right?

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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

07 May 2013, 14:05

I dont know if i am wrong but all i did was use the formula speed = distance x time and they have given us both speed ie the rate traveled and the time so am i wrong?

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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

08 May 2013, 06:04

madzstar wrote:

I dont know if i am wrong but all i did was use the formula speed = distance x time and they have given us both speed ie the rate traveled and the time so am i wrong?

The formula is (speed)*(time)=(distance).
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Re: If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is 1/2 [#permalink]

08 May 2013, 06:05

laythesmack23 wrote:

Bunuel wrote:

laythesmack23 wrote:

Banuel,

I'm not seeing it, is there a way you can list the three or four item being tested? and what makes the answer sufficient?

Time?
Rate of Speed?
Distance?
Any other?

Thanks.

Not sure I understand what you mean...

Anyway, we need to get t_x.

From (1) we have that t_y=t_x+1 and from (2) we have that t_y=60, thus t_x=60-1=59.

The concept being tested here is RTD right?

Yes, that's correct.
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