Terrence walks at a pace of 2 mi/h to the theater and watches a movie for 2 hours and 15 min he rides a bus back home at 40 mi/h the entire trip takes 3.5 hours how far is his house from the theater

Solution:

Let the distance of house from the theater be x miles.

Total travelling time

Then average speed

Terrence walks at a pace of 2 mi/h to the theater and back home at 40 mi/h.

So Average Speed mi/hr

Both the average speed should be equal. So we can write

Hence the distance from home is 13.125 miles.

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