Carl and André are running a race. Carl runs at a constant speed of . André runs at a constant speed of . Carl starts running, and then André starts running 20 s later. After André has been running for 10 s, he catches up to Carl. What is the ratio ?
Solution
André runs for 10 seconds at a speed of . Therefore, André runs . Carl runs for 20 seconds before André starts to run and then 10 seconds while André is running. Thus, Carl runs for 30 seconds. Since Carl runs at a speed of , then Carl runs . Since André and Carl run the same distance, then , which means that . Thus, .
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