Question

The workman’s family car travels 165 miles over 3 hours their cousins family car travels 150 miles over 2 hours if the family reunion is 900 miles away for both families and assuming both families continue at the same rates who will arrive First? What is the speed of each family?

Answer 1

From the problem, we have two cars.

Workman's family car travels 165 miles over 3 hours. The speed rate will be 165/3 = 55 miles per hour.

Cousin's family car travels 150 miles over 2 hours. The speed rate will be 150/2 = 75 miles per hour.

The fastest car is the the car with the fastest speed rate and that would be cousin's family car which is 75 miles per hour. So they will arrive first.

ANSWER :

Arrived first : cousin's family car

workman's speed : 55 miles per hour

cousin's speed : 75 miles per hour