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Algebra Difficulty 4.1 AIME Prove it Canada

Each day, Jessica drives from Botown to Aville, a distance of 120 km. During the drive, her car’s navigation system constantly updates the estimated time of arrival (ETA) at Aville. The car predicts the ETA by assuming that Jessica will drive the remaining distance at 80 km/h.

On Monday, Jessica drove at 90 km/h. How many minutes did it take Jessica to drive from Botown to Aville?
On Tuesday, Jessica left Botown at 7:00 a.m.. What was the ETA displayed by her car at 7:00 a.m.?
On Tuesday, Jessica drove at 90 km/h. Determine the ETA displayed by her car at 7:16 a.m..
On Wednesday, Jessica noted the ETA predicted by her car when she left Botown. She travelled the first part of the trip at 50 km/h and travelled the rest of the way at 100 km/h. Jessica arrived in Aville at the ETA predicted by her car when she left Botown. Determine the distance that she drove at a speed of 100 km/h.

Solution

The distance from Botown to Aville is 120 km.
Jessica drove this distance at a speed of 90 km/h, and so it took Jessica 12090=43\dfrac{120}{90}=\dfrac43 hours or 43×60=80\dfrac43\times60=80 minutes.
The distance from Botown to Aville is 120 km.

The car predicted that Jessica would drive this distance at a speed of 80 km/h, and so it predicted that it would take Jessica 12080=32\dfrac{120}{80}=\dfrac32 hours or 32×60=90\dfrac32\times60=90 minutes.
The ETA displayed by her car at 7:00 a.m. was 8:30 a.m..
Jessica drove from 7:00 a.m. to 7:16 a.m. (for 16 minutes) at a speed of 90 km/h, and so she travelled a distance of 1660×90=24\dfrac{16}{60}\times90=24 km.

At 7:16 a.m., Jessica had a distance of 120 km -24 km =96 km\text{120 km -24 km =96 km} left to travel.

The car predicted that Jessica would drive this distance at a speed of 80 km/h, and so it predicted that it would take Jessica 9680=65\dfrac{96}{80}=\dfrac65 hours or 65×60=72\dfrac65\times60=72 minutes to complete the trip.
The ETA displayed by her car at 7:16 a.m. was 72 minutes later or 8:28 a.m..
As in part (b), the car predicted that it would take Jessica 90 minutes or 1.5 hours to travel from Botown to Aville.

Let the distance that Jessica travelled at 100 km/h be dd km, and so the distance that Jessica travelled at 50 km/h was (120d)(120-d) km.

The time that Jessica drove at 100 km/h was d100\dfrac{d}{100} hours.

The time that Jessica drove at 50 km/h was 120d50\dfrac{120-d}{50} hours.

Since the time predicted by her car is equal to the actual time that it took Jessica to travel from Botown to Aville, then d100+120d50=1.5\dfrac{d}{100}+\dfrac{120-d}{50}=1.5.

Solving for dd, we get d+2(120d)=1.5×100d+2(120-d)=1.5\times100 or d+240=150-d+240=150, and so d=90d=90 km.
Therefore, Jessica drove a distance of 9090 km at a speed of 100 km/h.

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