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Old 10-16-2007, 06:14 PM
Hoi Polloi Hoi Polloi is offline
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Default Re: Is this word problem solvable?

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d1 = 2 miles + (v-s)(1 hour) = 2 + v - s

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Where did the units go here? Canoeist travels upstream 2 miles and encounters log, an hour later he turns around. How does the distance before the log correlate to the time after the log? Unless we read "after *another* hour" to mean that the first 2 miles took an hour, I don't see how this is solvable.
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