October 11, 2016
Problem of the Week
October 11, 2016
For the holidays, you will travel by car to Grandma's house. It is far away but at least you will stop for lunch at the Pizza Palace. After traveling a while you ask your dad how far away is the Pizza Palace. "It is twice as far from here as the distance we have already travelled." After lunch you ask him how much further to Grandma's. "How interesting!" he exclaims. "We have travelled exactly two hundred miles since you last asked me 'how far'. And now I see that we only have to travel half as far to reach Grandma as the distance we have just travelled since leaving the Pizza Palace." How far is it from home to Grandma's?