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Originally Posted by amenbreakz  Hi!
Can any one explain how you calculate the meeting point of two objects traveling towards each other at constant velocities.
eg
Object A is moving at 348mph and B is moving at 168mph They are 1118miles apart. Where will they meet, calculating from point A? | Let A travel a distance of d miles. Then you know that B has traveled 1118 - d miles. You also know that they traveled the same amount of time to get there. Call this time t.
So using v = dt: 
and 
Solve this as a set of simultaneous equations.
-Dan
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