Homework Help: math

Posted by justin on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 3:02am.

A jet plane traveling at 500 mph overtakes a propeller plane traveling at 200 mph that had a 2-hour head start. How far from the starting point are the plains?

math - Reiny, Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 7:56am
the went the same distance
and the difference in their times is 2

let me see your setup of the equation

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