Ben starts walking along a path at 2 mi/h. One and a half hours after Ben leaves, his sister Amanda begins jogging along the same path at 7 mi/h. How long (in hours) will it be before Amanda catches up to Ben?

Amanda will catch up Ben after 0.6 hours.

Step-by-step explanation:

Amanda begins jogging along the same path at 7 mi/h.

This means that Amanda's position, after t hours, is given by:

Ben starts walking along a path at 2 mi/h.

Amanda leaves after one and a half hour, which means that Ben will be at position 2*1.5 = 3. So Ben's position after t hours is given by:

How long (in hours) will it be before Amanda catches up to Ben?

This will happen when:

So

Amanda will catch up Ben after 0.6 hours.

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step-by-step explanation:

a drawing really does here:

so i draw the horizontal line y=2 and the vertical line x=-2 at this intersection i put b (this is where my right angle is going to be).   so point b is at (-2,2).   point a is 5 units long and is also on y=2 so this point has to be (3,2) or (-7,2) -doesn't matter i will go with (3,2).

now we know c is at (-2,y) we don't know the y yet bet we know that c is on x=-2.

we have the area of the triangle is .5bh=12.5

we know the base length is 5 (ab)

we have the height is (2-y) if you look at your

plug in

.5(5)(2-y)=12.5

solve for y to get the y-coordinate for c

2.5(2-y)=12.5

divide both sides by 2.5 giving:

2-y=5

now subtract 2 on both sides

-y=3

y=-3

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step-by-step explanation:

do 6-10=

if u need it to be negative.