When Mr. Crain was driving to work in the morning, there was heavy traffic, so he was traveling at a speed of 25 mph. When he was coming back after work there where no traffic, so he drove at a speed of 45 mph. Find the distance from Mr. Crain's home to his office, if it took him 20 more minutes to get to work than to drive home.

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Vanessa

9 January, 03:15

When Mr. Crain was driving to work in the morning, there was heavy traffic, so he was traveling at a speed of 25 mph. When he was coming back after work there where no traffic, so he drove at a speed of 45 mph. Find the distance from Mr. Crain's home to his office, if it took him 20 more minutes to get to work than to drive home.

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Audrey · Answer 1

Let the distance from home to work be x;

time=distance/speed

Time taken to travel to work is:

time=x/25

Time taken to reach home from work:

time=x/45

given that it took him 20 min more to travel to work than going home we shall have:

x/25-x/45=20/60

solving for x we get:

x=75/4=18.75 miles