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A fleet dispatcher is calculating how long it will take for a supervisor traveling at 75 mph to catch up with a delivery truck traveling at 60 mph that departed exactly 1 hour earlier. When translating this scenario into a system of equations, the dispatcher creates the equation ${}60m = 75c$ (where mm and cc are their respective travel times in hours). The two sides of this equation are set equal because they represent each vehicle's ____, which must be exactly the same at the moment the supervisor catches the truck.

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