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Suppose you are driving. You notice that after driving for 4 hours, you are 175 miles from Seattle. You continue driving, and calculate that after driving 6 hours you are 255 miles from Seattle.

Required:
a. What was your rate of travel between these two observations?
b. How far from Seattle are you after driving for 17 hours?

User DGraham
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a. 40 mph

b. 680 miles from Seattle
User Dylan Hand
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