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Bus C Total Time Taken by Bus C - 40u

The document describes three buses - A, B, and C - traveling between towns X and Y. Bus A traveled at a fixed speed V the whole way. Bus B traveled at V for the first 275 km, then increased its speed by 25%. Bus C traveled at a speed 20% higher than V the whole way. The document provides information about the time differences between the buses' journeys and sets up equations to calculate the total distance between towns X and Y.

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Bus C Total Time Taken by Bus C - 40u

The document describes three buses - A, B, and C - traveling between towns X and Y. Bus A traveled at a fixed speed V the whole way. Bus B traveled at V for the first 275 km, then increased its speed by 25%. Bus C traveled at a speed 20% higher than V the whole way. The document provides information about the time differences between the buses' journeys and sets up equations to calculate the total distance between towns X and Y.

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A bus was scheduled to travel from Town X to Town Y at a fixed speed, V km/h.

If the speed of
the bus was increased by 20%, it could arrive at Town Y 80 minutes ahead of schedule. Instead, if
the bus travelled the first 275 km at V km/h and after that it increased the speed by 25%, it could
reach Town Y 30 min ahead of schedule. Find the distance between the 2 towns.
Lets assume that there were 3 buses A, B, C travelling from Town X and Town Y at the same time.
Bus A travelled at V km/h for the whole journey.
Bus B travelled at V km/h for first 275 km and then at 1.25V km/h for the rest of the journey.
Bus C travelled at 1.2V km/h for the whole journey.

Bus A takes 80 min longer than Bus C and 30 min longer than Bus B to travel from X to Y.

Time ratio for Bus A : Bus C 6 : 5 48u : 40u
8u 80 min
1u 10 min

Bus A and Bus B takes same time to travel the first 275 km. For the rest of the journey,
Time ratio for Bus A : Bus B 5 : 4










30 min 3u
So, time taken by Bus A for rest of journey 5 x 3u = 15u
Time taken for first 275 km 48u 15u = 33u

Distance between Town X and Town Y 48/33 x 275 = 400 km
30 min
80 min --> 8u
Time taken to travel 275 km
Time taken to travel 275 km
Bus C
Bus A
Bus B
Total time taken by Bus A --> 48u
Total time taken by Bus C --> 40u

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