A suspect in a high speed chase enters I-8 Eastbound at 73 miles per hour. 40 minutes later a highway patrolman enters I-8 Eastbound at the same location at 81 miles per hour. How long until the officer catches up to the suspect?

The model is $LaTeX: \displaystyle d=rt$ . The suspect has a 40 minute head start. The equation for the distance traveled by the suspect is $LaTeX: \displaystyle d=73(t + 40)$ . The highway patrolman has traveled $LaTeX: \displaystyle d=81 t$ . To catch the suspect the distances traveled must be equal. This gives the equation is $LaTeX: \displaystyle 73 t + 2920=81 t$ . Solving gives that it will take $LaTeX: \displaystyle 365$ minutes to catch the suspect.