Answer:
4 seconds
Explanation:
If they’re going to meet at a certain point, the hate and the tortoise would have raced the same distance up until that point. So we can lay the equation like this:
The distance the tortoise crawled=the distance the hare hopped
Another important formula that we must know to solve this equation is:
Distance=time*speed
Because what we don’t know and want to solve for is the TIME, we can set our variable as t.
The equation now:
[tortoise speed]*t+20ft=[hare speed)*t
We add 20ft on the left because the hare gave the tortoise a head start.
When we input all the values, the final equation is:
0.5t+20=5.5t
The process of solving it is in the picture below.
I hope this helped (at least a little haha, this is a pretty confusing question)
