A tourist bus leaves Richmond at 1:00 P.M. for New York City. Exactly 24 minutes later, a truck sets out in the same direction. The tourist bus moves at a steady 60km/h. The truck travels 80km/h. How long did it take the truck to overtake the bus.

Question

A tourist bus leaves Richmond at 1:00 P.M. for New York City. Exactly 24 minutes later, a truck sets out in the same direction. The tourist bus moves at a steady 60km/h. The truck travels 80km/h. How long did it take the truck to overtake the bus.

Answer 1

This is just like the cars from Memphis and Little Rock. Take a stab at it.

Answer 2

I got 97 minutes, equivalent to, 1 hour 13 minutes.

Answer 3

To find out how long it took the truck to overtake the bus, we need to determine the time it took for the truck to cover the distance that the bus had already traveled.

Since the bus left 24 minutes (or 24/60 = 0.4 hours) before the truck, we can calculate the distance the bus had covered by the time the truck started:

Distance covered by the bus = Speed of the bus × Time = 60 km/h × 0.4 hours = 24 km

Now, let's find out how long it took the truck to cover 24 km.

Relative speed of the truck with respect to the bus = Speed of the truck - Speed of the bus = 80 km/h - 60 km/h = 20 km/h

Time taken by the truck to overtake the bus = Distance / Relative speed = 24 km / 20 km/h = 1.2 hours

Therefore, it took the truck 1.2 hours, or 1 hour and 12 minutes, to overtake the bus.

A tourist bus leaves Richmond at 1:00 P.M. for New York City. Exactly 24 minutes later, a truck sets out in the same direction. The tourist bus moves at a steady 60km/h. The truck travels 80km/h. How long did it take the truck to overtake the bus.

96

This is just like the cars from Memphis and Little Rock. Take a stab at it.

12

I got 97 minutes, equivalent to, 1 hour 13 minutes.

To find out how long it took the truck to overtake the bus, we need to determine the time it took for the truck to cover the distance that the bus had already traveled.