Harry rode his bike the length of a new bike trail and then rode an extra 8 km, all in 5 hours. The next day it took him 3 hours to ride just the new bike trail. His speed on the second day was 3/2 times his speed on the first day. How long is the bike trial?
#Weird Algebra word problems
lunar cairn
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lunar cairn
So I got 8 for the bike trail but ChatGPT says it’s 72 which is an absurdly high number for a bike trail.
This is the work I did
tropic solar
So I got 8 for the bike trail but ChatGPT says it’s 72 which is an absurdly high...
chatgpt is never right.
NEVER
EVER
lunar cairn
chatgpt is never right.
True true. I looked it up on a different ChatGPT app and it gave me a different answer.
tropic solar
just dont use it
let me set up the word problem
$\frac{x+8}{5}=\frac{x}{3}*\frac{3}{2}$
bronze lanceBOT
;(
tropic solar
which is $\frac{x+8}{5}=\frac{x}{2}$
bronze lanceBOT
;(
tropic solar
This is the work I did
denominator on rhs of step 2 should be 3, not 5
and should be +8 not -8
lunar cairn
Okay, I’m fixing it right now
tropic solar
alright
tropic solar
do you know what rhs is?
lunar cairn
do you know what rhs is?
What
tropic solar
right hand side
tropic solar
Wait, how did you come up with this equation
because of the information given in the problem
x is the track distance
so x+8 would be what he ran on the first day