Luke drives 16 miles from his house to reach a restaurant. Just as he reaches the restaurant, he realizes that he forgot his wallet. So, he turns around and drives all the way back to his house. On both parts of the trip, he drives at a constant speed of 0.8 mile/minute. Match the number of minutes since Luke started driving from his house to his distance from the house.

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The total distance traveled from his house to the restaurant and then back to his house =[tex] 16+16 [/tex]= 32 miles.He drove at the constant speed of 0.8 miles per minute.Total Time taken = [tex] \frac{Distance travled}{Speed} [/tex]\=[tex] =\frac{32}{0.8}
=\frac{320}{8}
=40 [/tex] minutes.
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