Question

Cindy is riding her bicycle six miles ahead of Tamira. Cindy is traveling at an average rate of 2 miles per hour. Tamira is traveling at an average rate of 4 miles perhour. Let a represent the number of hours since Tamira started riding her bicycleWhen will Tamira be ahead of Cindy? Write an inequality to represent thissituation

Answer 1

Given:

Cindy is riding her bicycle six miles ahead of Tamira at an average rate of 2 miles per hour.

Let 'a' represents the number of hours.

Distance travellled by Tamira in a hours = 4a

Distance travelled by Cindy in a hours=2a

`4a>2a+6`