Answer:
3.54 and 1.04
Explanation:
Given:
Two towns are 1,100 miles apart.
A group of hikers Starts from each town and walks down the trail toward each other..
They meet after a total hiking time of 240 hours.
If one group travels 2 1/2 mile per hour slower than the other group.
Question asked:
Find the rate of each group.
Solution:
Let speed of faster hiker =

Speed of slower hiker =

As we know:

Total distance between two town = Total combined speed of both hikers
Total combined time taken


Speed of faster hiker =
= 3.54 miles per hour.
Speed of slower hiker =
=

Therefore, speed of faster hiker is 3.54 miles per hour and speed of slower hiker is 1.04 miles per hour.