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Two birds are migrating due north. The first bird flies at a rate of 35 miles per hour. It will eventually migrate on the same path as the second bird, which begins its journey 45 miles directly north of the first bird. The second bird flies at an average speed of 20 miles per hour. Assuming that both birds begin flying at the same time, if t represents the amount of flight time in hours, which inequality represents the length of time that the first bird is ahead of the second bird?


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Okay shmoop furs Just two more math questions in this

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section Review our little formula sheet here right there All

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right let's Get into it to birds are migrating due

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north First flight five thousand Eventually something passes The secondary

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begins its journey forty five mile directly north of the

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first bird Second replies an average of twenty miles an

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hour flying thing kind of representing flight time hours which

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inequality represent the length of time for the first bird

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gets ahead of second All right great question here All

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right We're going to need a little bit of modeling

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a little bit of chart in here So let's think

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about it The birds flights can be modelled as a

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linear equation on a graph with the speeds being the

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slopes of those lines And we need to account for

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the fact that the second bird is forty five miles

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ahead at the beginning So these air the equations for

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the distances traveled by the two birds right Burn one

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is just thirty five t right it's house fast she's

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going and bird two is twenty plus forty five A

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little bit ahead Remember they're going both due north this

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kind of complex and you've got to really think about

01:00

where these lines are going to intersect All right well

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we cleverly named the bird's bird one and bird to

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hopefully they don't get offended We can only use the

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information we're given notice that bird one is initially behind

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right here But after the grafts intersect in the two

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birds high five in the air ever rooms do with

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their wings Bird one pulls ahead of bird to there's

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a way to represent Their flight paths algebraic li the

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question asked for wind bird one is ahead of bird

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too So set the equation inverted one to be greater

01:30

than that of bird too So we get thirty five

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t is greater than twenty plus forty five Now we

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isolate the t yeah we're going fast here We know

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but the is testing whether you showed up in school

01:41

that day so isolate t we got thirty five t

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minus twenty is greater than forty five and you can

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treat these greater than things like their equal things and

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we've got fifteen tea then right Thirty five hundred twenty

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fifteen so fifteen tea is greater than forty five so

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tea is greater than three So what does that mean

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While the inequality that represents the length of time that

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the first bird is ahead of the second bird is

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t is greater than three so it's just a if

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we worried to distraction over the thought of the two

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birds colliding in midair we may have subtracted thirty five

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miles an hour from the initial forty five mile advantage

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but we can't do that because they're both headed north

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from presumably different directions There or calculated the difference between

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the two speeds which on its own doesn't help us

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And both of these answers would have been incorrect So

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yeah it's a And uh just beware of the birds 00:02:28.148 --> [endTime] hitting each other That would be sad

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