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Kamdara and Jet are two towns 320 kilometres apart. A bus left A at 8.00 am travelling at 60km/h for town B. After forty minutes, a...

Kamdara and Jet are two towns 320 kilometres apart. A bus left A at 8.00 am travelling at 60km/h for town B. After
forty minutes, a saloon car left A travelling in the same direction as the bus at a speed of 80km/h.
a) How far from B did the saloon car catch up with the bus?
b) At what time did it catch up with the bus?
c) When the saloon caught up with the bus it got a break – down and had to be repaired before proceeding to B at the
same speed. If they both reached at B at the same time, find how long it took to repair the saloon?

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