A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant speed and then two of the horses ran away to some other direction. So he reached the destination 48 hours behind the schedule. If the five horses would have run 50 miles more, then the person would have been only 24 hours late. Find the distance of the destination.

A person has to cover the fixed distance through his 
horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the 
full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant 
speed and then two of the horses ran away to some other 
direction. So he reached the destination 48 hours behind 
the schedule. If the five horses would have run 50 miles 
more, then the person would have been only 24 hours late. 
Find the distance of the destination.

Ques:- A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant speed and then two of the horses ran away to some other direction. So he reached the destination 48 hours behind the schedule. If the five horses would have run 50 miles more, then the person would have been only 24 hours late. Find the distance of the destination.
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2 Answers on this Question

  1. he could have saved 24 hours had he had all five horses
    running for 50 more miles …
    in order to save 48 hours he needs to cover 100 miles which
    is the dist…

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