2017 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 7
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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