A car travels from calabar to Enugu, a distance of p km with an average speed of u km per hour and continues to benin, a distance of q km, with an average s...

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Mathematics - 1991 Subject: General Mathematics

Question 1 Report

A car travels from calabar to Enugu, a distance of p km with an average speed of u km per hour and continues to benin, a distance of q km, with an average speed of w km per hour. Find its average speed from Calabar to Benin

Answer Details

Average speed =  total Distance Total Time
from Calabar to Enugu in time t1, hence
t1 =  p u  also from Enugu to Benin
t2 =  q w
Average speed =  p + q t 1 + t 2
=  p + q p u + q w
= p + q ×  u w p w + q u
= 

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