Question

Two hikers are 88 miles apart and walking toward each other. They meet in 10 hours. Find the rate of each hiker if one hiker walls 4.4 mph faster than the other

The speed of the slow hikeris mph, and the speed of the fast hiker is mph.
(Type integers or decimals.)

Answer 1

0.5

Explanation:

if you do 4.4 times 10 you get 44 then you divide 44 by 88 and get 0.5

Answer 2

2.2 and 6.6

Explanation:

Given:

• Distance = 88 miles
• Time = 10 hours
• Rate of hiker 1 = r
• Rate of hiker 2 = r + 4.4

Then:

• r + r + 4.4 = 88/10
• 2r + 4.4 = 8.8
• 2r = 4.4
• r = 2.2 Mph rate of hiker 1

r + 4.4 = 6.6 Mph rate of hiker 2