Trying to find a maths in real life example of where we might solve simultaneous equations graphically I came up with this.
Students have to plot to linear graphs and find the point of impact.
You could bring in Pythagoras and find out if the two bodies were travelling at the same speed would they actually collide, but I wanted to keep the worksheet to one side of A4.
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