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Question 235152: jim was hiking on a trail and, after walking 3/4 of a mile, he found that he was only 5/8 of the way to the end of the trail. how long is the trail?

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Question 235184: at about the speed of 12 mph,how far could you run in one minute?
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Question 234741: A migrating elephant herd started moving at a rate of 6 mph. One elephant stood still and was left behind. Then this stray elephant sensed danger and began running at a rate of 10 mph to reach the herd. The stray elephant caught up in 5 min. How long (in hours) did the stray run to catch up? how far did it run? Find the distance that the herd traveled while the stray ran to catch up. Then write an expression for the total distance the herd traveled. Let x represent the distance (in miles) that the herd traveled while the stray elephant stood still.
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Question 234948: Please help me to solve this problem=
Stu lives on the top floor of an apartment building, and Hal lives on a lower floor. Hal's window is 1/4 as high as Stu's. Stu drops a stone from his window. Three seconds later, Hal drops a stone from his window. The two stones hit the ground simultaneously. How high is Stu's window from the ground?
Thank you for helping me to solve this problem.

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Question 235031: A car travels at an average speed of 64 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 4 hours and 45 minutes
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Question 235007: a car travels at 40 km/h for 30 minutes and 60 km/h for 15 minutes. how far does it treavel?
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Question 234300: An aircraft 200 kilometers away is flying toward an air base at 350 kilometers per hour. How long will it take a plane flying from the base at 430 kilometers per hour to intercept the first aircraft?
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Question 234728: A car leaves town A at 1:00 pm traveling at 45 miles per hour. A second car leaves town A at 2:00 pm traveling the same route at 55 miles per hour. How long will it take the second car to overtake the first car?
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Question 234718: if you were running 10 mph for 5 min, how far would you go?
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Question 234697: A boy leaves on a bicycle trip at the rate of 8 mph. One hour later the father, realizing that his son forgot his camping gear, sets out by car. How fast must the father drive to overtake the boy in 15 minutes?
D= x
R= 8mph
T= 1hr + 15min.-----> 75min.
8x75min. = 600 mph.
This is what I've tried doing.
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Question 234637: a different flight takes 3 hours to travel a distance of 960 miles what is the average
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Question 234233: #2 A CRUISE BOAT TRAVELS 96 MILES DOWNSTREAM IN 4 HOURS AND RETURNS TO ITS STARTING POINT UPSTREAM IN 12 HOURS. FIND THE SPEED OF THE STREAM.

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Question 234237: your going 42 miles in 3 hours, how many feet per second is that?
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Question 234595: Goldie Goldfish, a speed swimmer, loves to race around the park’s pond, which is 0.5 miles around. If she
can swim 20 laps around the track in 2 hours, what is her average speed?
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Question 234569: if train a leaves chicago station at 8 a.m. at 40 mph and train b leaves the same station at 9 a.m what time will they meet and how many miles will they have traveled?

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Question 234486: A train runs at a speed of 10 km per hour greater than half the speed of the other train. The former runs 175 km in 5 hours. What is the speed of the latter.
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Question 234240: At 10:00 AM., a car leaves a house at a rate of 60 mph. At the same time, another car leaves the same house at a rate of 50 mph in the opposite direction. At what time will the cars have 330 miles in between them?
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Question 234236: #5 EllEN WISHES TO MIX CANDY WORTH $1.85 PER POUND WITH CANDY WORTH $3.33 PER POUND TO FORM 29 POUNDS OF A MIXTURE WORTH $2.62 PER POUND. HOW MANY POUNDS OF THE MORE EXPENSIVE CANDY SHOULD SHE USE?
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Question 234093: If I were to drive 160 miles traveling at how long would it take if I were to drive at 65mph? 75mph? and 85mph?
Also what formula would you use to solve this problem
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Question 234017: a truck traveling 60mph is overtaking another truck traveling at 50mph. The slower truck is one-eighth of a mile ahead, how long will it take the faster truck to overtake the slower truck?
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Question 234032: What is your average speed if you traveled 720 miles in 5hours 40minutes?
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Question 233947: I'm having some problem with the following:
Mary starts at a point 26 miles from school & runs toward school at 6 miles per hour. Mike starts from school 1.3 hours later & runs toward Mary at 8 miles per hour.
A) Let x be the number of hours Mary has been running. Write expressions for the distance she has run & for her distance from school.
B) In terms of x, how many hours has Mike been running? How far is he from school?
C) How long has Mary been running when she & Mike meet? (write equation & solve)
D) How far from school do they meet?

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Question 233913: two cyclists start from the same point and ride in opposite directions. one cyclist rides twice as fast as the other. in 3 hours, they are 81 miles apart. find the rate of each cyclist.
**please help solve and show work or formula!!!please!
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Question 233889: Train A is traveling at 60mph, and passes the station at 7:10am. Train B is traveling at 80mph, and passes the station at 7:25am. At what time will Train B pass train A?
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Question 233880: a car is traveling at 60 km per hour. how much time wiill it need to travel 180 km

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Question 233593: A person covered some distance in 12 hours. He covered half the distance by rail @ 75 km per hour and the rest by car @ 45 km/hr. The total distance covered by him was
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Question 233728: If I were to increase the length of my stride by one inch, it would take me 60 fewer strides to cover a mile. What was the length of my original stride?
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Question 233627: A businessman makes the St. Louis to Chicago (Round Trip) trip 5 times a year in a car which gets 24 mpg. What would the fuel cost be for these 5 journeys if gas costs $2.50 per gallon for all 5 journeys?
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Question 233624: How long would a trip from Chicago to St. Louis take if you travel by train at an average speed of 90 mph?
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Question 233451: steve McPoke left home on his bivcycle at 8 am. traveling at 18 km/h. at 10 am, steve's brother set out after him on a motorcycle , folowing the same route. The motorcycle traveled at 54 km/h. How long had steve traveled when his brother overtok him?
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Question 233374: how long does it take to go 3 miles at 55 mph?
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Question 233259: Flight 725 left New York at 10:28 a.m. flying north. Flight 245 left from the same airport at 11:18 a.m. flying south at one hundred twenty kph less than three times the speed of flight 725. At 1:06 p.m. they are 1,030 kilometers apart. What is the average rate of speed for Flight 245?
I have no clues on how to solve this problem.
Thanks for your answer.
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Question 233275: In a walk a thin to raise money for charity Elisa walked a certain distance at 5mph and then jogged twice that distance at 8 mph. her total time walking and jogging was 2 hours and 15 minutes. how far did she get?
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Question 233200: O.K I'm lost here, and need help.
From the book; It states I'll need to use the formula 4.9t^2 + vt = s.
Approximately how far will an object fall in 13 seconds(t) when thrown downward at an initial velocity of 10 meters per second(v) from a plane?
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Question 233179: Joanne left the driveway 40 seconds after Gloria driving down a winding four mile country road. If Joanne's speed averaged 25 miles an hour what would Gloria's average speed be for Joanne to catch up to her after the third mile?
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Question 233006: a car traveling at 55 mph covers how many meters per second

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Question 232869: an airplane and a jet aircraft cross each other at different altitudes traveling in opposite directions the jet travels 5 times the rate of the airplane. In 3 hours they are 1620 miles apart. find the speed of each aircraft.
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Question 232808: Two cars pass each other going in opposite directions on the interstate. One is headed east at 10 m/s and the other is headed west at 5 m/s. What is the relative speed between the two?
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Question 232879: Pairs of markings a set distance apart are made on highways so that police can detect drivers exceeding the speed limit. Over a fixed distance, the speed R varies inversely with the time T. In one particular pair of markings, R is 45 mph when T is 6 seconds. Find the speed of a care that travels the given distance in 5 seconds.
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Question 232827: Thank you in advance for your help
On a road trip from Boston to Miami, Nancy stopped in Baltimore which is 390 miles from Boston. If Baltimore is .26 of the trip to Miami, how far is it from Boston to Miami?

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Question 232736: A bus service runs between two cities. Going one way, the average speed of the bus is 66 mph, and going the other way, it is 3 mph slower, so the ride takes 20 minutes longer. What is the distance between the two cities?
I have come up with this but I am not positive if its right:
Distance 66(x)and 63(x+20)
Rate 66 and 63
Time is x and x+20?
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Question 232505: 2 cars leave intersection, one travel east; other north. When the car traveling east had gone 15 miles the diatance between the cars was 5 miles more than the distance traveled by the car heading north, how far had the north bound car traveled.
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Question 232482: Two airplanes begin 1000 miles apart and fly along lines that intersect at a right angle. One plane flies an average of 100 MPH faster than the other. If the planes meet after 2 hours, how fast do the airplanes fly?
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