A car travels from calabar to Enugu, a dist..

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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

\frac{(p + q)}{p w + q u}

$\frac{u w (p + q)}{p w + q u}$

$\frac{u w (p + q)}{p w}$

$\frac{u w}{p w + q u}$

Answer Details

Average speed = $\frac{total Distance}{Total Time}$
from Calabar to Enugu in time t1, hence
t1 = $\frac{p}{u}$ also from Enugu to Benin
t2 = $\frac{q}{w}$
Average speed = $\frac{p + q}{t_{1} + t_{2}}$
= $\frac{p + q}{\frac{p}{u} + \frac{q}{w}}$
= p + q × $\frac{u w}{p w + q u}$
= $\frac{u w (p + q)}{p w + q u}$

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