A man starts out on a trip driving his car at a constant rate of 48 mph. A man riding a motorcycle starts out on the same route 1.5 hours later, traveling at a constant rate of 64 mph. How long will the car have been traveling when the motorcycle catches up?

1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!