Thursday, January 12, 2012

Distance Formula 3(modified )

Find the distance if a journey of 10 hrs is covered at 21 kmph for the first half and 24 kmph in the second half.
Solution:
Let the distance be p km.
First half of distance is covered in p / (2 x 21) hrs.
Second half of distance is covered in p / (2 x 24) hrs.

therefore, p / (2 x 21) + p / (2 x 24) = 10 hrs.
Solving we ger p = 224 km.

Shortcut Method:
It is similar to the problem in Distance Formula 3.
But in the above sum we cannot use the Distance Formula 3 since it calculates half the distance as the speeds cover up only half of the journey.

So we use the modified formula:

Distance = (2 x product of speeds x Total time to cover distance) / (Addition of two
speeds).


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