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two steamers leave a port on a river at the same time traveling in opposite directions each is traveling 80 miles per hour how long would it take for them to be 90 miles apart

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What you know: speed of the ships = 80 mph
Combined speed = 80+80 = 160 mph
Time = distance/combined speed -> time = 90/160 -> time = 0.56

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