2017 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 7
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Problem
Samia set off on her bicycle to visit her friend, traveling at an average speed of kilometers per hour. When she had gone half the distance to her friend's house, a tire went flat, and she walked the rest of the way at
kilometers per hour. In all it took her
minutes to reach her friend's house. In kilometers rounded to the nearest tenth, how far did Samia walk?
Solution 1
Let's call the distance that Samia had to travel in total as , so that we can avoid fractions. We know that the length of the bike ride and how far she walked are equal, so they are both
, or
.
She bikes at a rate of
kph, so she travels the distance she bikes in
hours. She walks at a rate of
kph, so she travels the distance she walks in
hours.
The total time is
. This is equal to
of an hour. Solving for
, we have:
Since
is the distance of how far Samia traveled by both walking and biking, and we want to know how far Samia walked to the nearest tenth, we have that Samia walked about
.
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Solution 2 (Approximations)
Notice that Samia walks times slower than she bikes, and that she walks and bikes the same distance. Thus, the fraction of the total time that Samia will be walking is
Then, multiply this by the time
34 minutes is a little greater than
of an hour so Samia traveled
The answer choice a little greater than 2.5 is
. (Note that we could've multiplied
by
and gotten the exact answer as well)
Solution 3 (Harmonic Mean)
Since the distance between biking and walking is equal, we can use the given rates' harmonic mean to find the average speed.
Then, multiplying by hours gives the overall distance
kilometers. Samia only walks half of that, so
kilometers.
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Solution 4
Since the distance traveled by bicycle and foot are equal, we can substitute the time traveled by bike, or , as
of the time traveled by foot, or
Accordingly, we have
This comes out to
This means that Samia traveled
minutes on foot, and hence,
minutes on bicycle
Because minutes on bike yields
kilometers, and distance on bike = distance on foot, we have the final answer of $\frac{17}{6} ~ \box{2.8}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Video Solution
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Video Solution by TheBeautyofMath
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