Caleb made a round-trip journey of 160 miles in each direction. Caleb's rate of travel to his destination was 15 mph slower than

Question

Caleb made a round-trip journey of 160 miles in each direction. Caleb's rate of travel to his destination was 15 mph slower than the rate of travel back home. His whole travel time was 10.4 hours.
A) Set up the chart: (Use x as the going rate in the equation.)
                      distance                rate                  time 
going             _______                     x                 ________
returning       ________               ________            ________
total              ________                ________           _________
B) What is an equation that can be used to solve this problem? ____________
C) What was Caleb's rate of travel going to his destination? _________mph
D) What was Caleb's rate of travel on his way home? ____________mph

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