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Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
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Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
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ofcourse there is a proper method but let me tell a logical and faster method..
Let's not bother what could be total distance.. Let's take it 120 km which is travelled in 1 HR one way.. On return he spends half time at 20kmph and half time at 60kmph.. So 80km in 2hrs or 40kmph.. @40kmph, he will cover 120 km in 120/40=3hrs..
Overall he covers 120+120 in 1+3hrs.. AVG speed = \(\frac{240}{4}\)=60kmph..
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Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
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Let the distance be x then for returning part we have if time = A units A*20/2+ A*60/2 = x (S*T=D) 10A+30A= x 40A=x---- A= x/40-----(total time for return)
for up journey dist.= x (both side same distance) and speed = 120kmph avg speed = total dist./total time
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Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
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let 8d=roundtrip distance average speed=8d/(d/20+3d/60+4d/120)=60 kph B
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Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
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The average speed from A to B is 120 kmph The average speed from B to A is (20+60)/2=40 kmph (since equal duration)
Now, The average speed for the whole trip 2*120*40/(120+40)=60 kmph (Since equal distance)
Formulae used:
A boy traveled V1 for time T and V2 for time T, Average velocity = (V1+V2)/2 (Same duration) A boy traveled V1 for D distance and V2 for D distance, Average velocity = 2*V1*V2/(V1+V2) (Same distance)
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GMATPrepNow wrote:
Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
Another approach:
Working from the return trip while 'half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour'
Let half time =1 hr.....Therefore
With 20 km/hr........Bill traveled distance= 20 km
With 60 km/hr........Bill traveled distance= 60 km
Total distance = 80 km
With 20 km/hr........Bill traveled time= 80/120 = 2/3 hr
Total distance = 2 *80= 180 km
Total time = 1+ 1+2/3= 2+2/3= 8/3 hr
Average speed = 2d/total time = 160 / (8/3) = 60 km/hr
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average speed whilst going to B =40km/hr average constant speed whilst returning to A =120km/hr for the same distance, speed inversely related to time t(a->b) : t(b->a)=1:3 average speed = total dis./total time =(40*3x+120x)/4x=60 km/hr -> B
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Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
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Dear Brent,
I know the following rule but I do if it works, although it provides the answer.
If an object travels an Two equal distances, then the average speed will be slightly less than the mean of two speeds.
I applied same concept here
Mean= (120+20+60) =200/3 = 66.66 so it should less than 66.66
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Mo2men wrote:
Dear Brent,
I know the following rule but I do if it works, although it provides the answer.
If an object travels an Two equal distances, then the average speed will be slightly less than the mean of two speeds.
I applied same concept here
Mean= (120+20+60) =200/3 = 66.66 so it should less than 66.66
Answer is B
Any trick or problem do you see?
thanks
One foreseeable problem is the word "slightly" (as in "...the average speed will be slightly less than the mean of two speeds" For example, if I travel from A to B at 60 miles per hour and then return to point A at 1 mile per hour, the MEAN of the two speeds is 30.5 miles per hour. However, the ACTUAL average speed = 120/61 miles per hour (i.e., about 1.97 miles per hour), which is A LOT less than the mean of 30.5 miles per hour.
There will also be issues with fact that you're dealing with 3 different speeds (and your rule applies to 2 speeds).
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Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
Let's assign a nice value to the distance between point A and point B. Given the 3 speeds (120 kmh, 20 kmh and 60 kmh), it seems that a distance of 120 kilometers will work nicely.
Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Time = distance/rate = 120/120 = 1 hour
On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. Let x = the distance traveled at 20 kilometers per hour So, 120 - x = the distance traveled at 60 kilometers per hour
Word equation: TIME traveled at 20 kmh = TIME traveled at 60 kmh Time = distance/rate So, we get: x/20 = (120-x)/60 Cross multiply: 60x = 20(120-x) Expand: 60x = 2400 - 20x Solve: x = 30 So, Bill drove 30 kilometers at 20 kilometers per hour, which means he drove the other 90 kilometers at 60 kilometers per hour.
TIME traveled at 20 kmh = 30/20 = 1.5 hours Since the two travel times are EQUAL, we also know that Bill drove 1.5 hours at 60 kilometers per hour
So, the TOTAL DISTANCE = 120 + 120 = 240 kilometers So, the TOTAL TRAVEL TIME = 1 + 1.5 + 1.5 = 4 hours
Average speed = (TOTAL DISTANCE)/(TOTAL TRAVEL TIME) = 240/4 = 60 kilometers per hour
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GMATPrepNow wrote:
GMATPrepNow wrote:
Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
Let's assign a nice value to the distance between point A and point B. Given the 3 speeds (120 kmh, 20 kmh and 60 kmh), it seems that a distance of 120 kilometers will work nicely.
Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Time = distance/rate = 120/120 = 1 hour
I got A with the following equation: Ave. Speed = Total distance/total time. Since Bill travels from A to B and then back to A, the total distance should be 2d. The total time is d/120 (first trip) + half the distance with 20 mph + halfe the distance with 60 mph => 2d/(d/120 + 0.5d/20 + 0.5d/60) which is 2d/(d/120 + 3d/120 + d/120) so i end up with 240d/5d, the d's cancel out and i get 42. Can you explain to me how you got to the 4d in the denominator instead of 5d?
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GMATPrepNow wrote:
GMATPrepNow wrote:
Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Upon reaching point B, he immediately heads back to point A. On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour, and half the time traveling 60 kilometers per hour. What is Bill’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire roundtrip?
A) 48 B) 60 C) 66 2/3 D) 72 E) 80
Let's assign a nice value to the distance between point A and point B. Given the 3 speeds (120 kmh, 20 kmh and 60 kmh), it seems that a distance of 120 kilometers will work nicely.
Bill travels from point A to point B at a constant speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Time = distance/rate = 120/120 = 1 hour
I got A with the following equation: Ave. Speed = Total distance/total time. Since Bill travels from A to B and then back to A, the total distance should be 2d. The total time is d/120 (first trip) + half the distance with 20 mph + halfe the distance with 60 mph => 2d/(d/120 + 0.5d/20 + 0.5d/60) which is 2d/(d/120 + 3d/120 + d/120) so i end up with 240d/5d, the d's cancel out and i get 42. Can you explain to me how you got to the 4d in the denominator instead of 5d?
Be careful. The question says "On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour" In your solution, Bill spends half the DISTANCE traveling 20 kilometers per hour"
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[quote="Be careful. The question says "On his return trip to point A, Bill spends half the time traveling 20 kilometers per hour" In your solution, Bill spends half the DISTANCE traveling 20 kilometers per hour"
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