Question

Garden City and Fountain City are 180 km apart. Xavier departed from Garden City
and Yara departed from Fountain City at the same time. They headed towards
Space City. Xavier travelled at a constant speed of 80 km/h and Yara travelled at a
constant speed of 60 km/h. How long did it take Xavier to catch up with Yara?​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Given Garden City and Fountain City are 180 km apart. Xavier departed from Garden City  and Yara departed from Fountain City at the same time. They headed towards  Space City. Xavier travelled at a constant speed of 80 km/h and Yara travelled at a  constant speed of 60 km/h. How long did it take Xavier to catch up with Yara?​

Given Garden City and Fountain City are 180 km apart. Xavier departed from Garden Cityand Yara departed from Fountain City at the same time.

Given Both cities Garden and Fountain city are 180 km apart. Xavier and Yara both leave from their cities at the same time. They need to travel to travel city.

Now Xavier travels at a constant speed of 80 km/h

Yara travelled at a constant speed of 60 km / hr.

So the difference in speed of kms every hour will be 80 – 60 = 20 km

Now time = distance / speed  

                = 180 / 20

                   = 9 hours

Therefore Xavier had to wait 9 hours to catch up with Yara

Answer 2

9 hour

Step-by-step explanation:

180-160 = 20 km every hour

so. 1 80 :2=