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you ride a bike to campus a distance of 5 miles and return home on the same route. Going to campus, you ride mostly downhill and average 9 miles per hour faster than on your return trip home. If the round trip one hour and ten minutes that is 7/6 hours; what is your average velocity on your return trip

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Let's call the speed on the way to campus "x". Since you ride 9 miles per hour faster on the way to campus than on the way home, the speed on the way home is "x - 9".

We know that the distance to campus and back is a total of 5 miles in each direction, so the total distance traveled is 10 miles.

We also know that the total time it takes is 7/6 hours.

Using the formula:

Total distance = (average speed) x (total time)

we can set up two equations:

5 = x(t1) (distance to campus)
5 = (x - 9)(t2) (distance back home)

where t1 is the time it takes to get to campus and t2 is the time it takes to get back home.

We also know that t1 + t2 = 7/6, since the total time is 7/6 hours.

We can solve for t1 in terms of t2:

t1 = (7/6 - t2)

Now we can substitute this value for t1 in the first equation:

5 = x(7/6 - t2)

Solving for x, we get:

x = 30/(7 - 6t2)

We want to find the speed on the way back home, which is x - 9.

x - 9 = 30/(7 - 6t2) - 9

Simplifying:

x - 9 = (30 - 9(7 - 6t2))/(7 - 6t2)

x - 9 = (3t2 - 3)/(-6t2 + 7)

Now we can use the fact that t1 + t2 = 7/6 to solve for t2:

t1 + t2 = 7/6

(7/6 - t2) + t2 = 7/6

Solving for t2:

t2 = 1/2

Now we can plug in t2 = 1/2 into the expression we found for x - 9:

x - 9 = (3(1/2) - 3)/(-6(1/2) + 7)

x - 9 = 3/5

x = 42/5

So the speed on the way back home is x - 9 = (42/5) - 9 = 3/5, which is approximately 0.6 miles per minute.
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