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Given:
1. A and B live in the same house and work in the same place.
2. A takes 20 minutes and B takes 30 minutes to reach workplace.
3. B starts from the house 5 minutes earlier than A starts.

Asked: How many minutes would A take to meet B?

vA / vB = 30/20 = 1.5

Let the time when A meets B be t minutes.

vB (t+5) = vA t
vA / vB = (t+5)/t = 1.5
1 + 5/t = 1.5
5/t = .5
t = 5/.5 = 10 minutes

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Can someone tell me if my way of solving is correct?

I calculcated; taking 10 km the distance from home to work.
1. Speed of A, comes to 30 kmph
2. Speed of B comes to 20 kmph.

Now, since they are both moving in the same direction, I used relative speed, as one object must catch up to the other. In this case, A catches up to B.

Now, I found out how much distance A will have to cover in the 5 minutes that B has walked, which comes to 5/3 km.
Taking their Relative Speed (30-20 kmph), and putting it into the formula for,

d = t x s
5/3 = t x 10
5 / 3 x 10 = 1 /6 hrs.
Simplifying this further into 1/6 hrs = 1/6 x 60 = 10 mins

(Trying to check if my way of thinking is correct)
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