Question P6 Same time, same distance
Today’s problem — free all day, every step. Every day has one.
Aladdin and Jasmine were having a race on their magic flying carpets. They left the same starting point for the market at 13 00. Both of them did not change their speed throughout the journey. Aladdin travelled at a constant speed of 60 km/h. When he reached the market at 13 30, Jasmine was 3 km from the market. What is Jasmine's speed?
Two travellers spend the same time, or cover the same distance.
In this one. Both carpets were in the air for the same half hour, so once that half hour gives Aladdin's distance, Jasmine's is just his distance less the gap she had left to fly.
Two travellers set off together or one chases another, with constant speeds and a question about who is ahead, when they meet, or how far apart they are.
Children divide the whole distance by the difference in speed instead of dividing the gap between the travellers, or compare distances covered over different lengths of time.
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