A bus starts at 9 am and follows a fixed route every day. One day, it traveled at a constant speed of 60 km pe

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A bus starts at 9 am and follows a fixed route every day. One day, it traveled at a constant speed of 60 km per hour and reached its destination 3.5 hours later than its scheduled arrival time. Next day, it traveled two-thirds of its route in one-third of its total scheduled travel time, and the remaining part of the route at 40 km per hour to reach just on time. The scheduled arrival time of the bus is

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7 : 30 pm. Let's take the scheduled time taken by the bus to be t From the first statement (bus travelling at 60 kmph), we can get the total distance travelled by bus to 60(t+3.5) The second scenario gives us that the bus covered two-thirds of the distance in one-third of the time, meaning that the remaining o