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Question 752295: use the formuka d=rt to find the distance
r=45mph
t=7.5hr
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Question 751629: A pilot can fly a plane at 100 mph in calm air. A recent trip of 300 mi flying with the wind and 300 mi returning against the wind took 8 h. Find the rate of the wind.

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Question 752249: a hiker walks with a average speed of 1.2 m/s. what in kilometers does the hiker travel in a time of 80 mintues
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Question 752191: If a car travels at 70 kms per hour, how far would it travel in 3.5 hours
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Question 752120: If you are traveling @ 80 M.P.H how long will it take you to go 80 Miles?
I said 1 hour but I was told I was wrong? Can you help me?
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Question 752097: 9. If a driver averages 50 miles per hour, the number of hours it will take to drive 360 miles is
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Question 752026: Bert is traveling 15 miles per hour slower than Ernie. Bert can travel 150 miles in the same time it takes Ernie to go 225 miles. Find Bert's speed.
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Question 751989: A car driving down a two lane highway has a speed of 50mph for the first part of the trip and 60 mph for the second part of the trip. The total time for the trip is 11 hrs and the total distance is 630 miles. Write a system of equations modeling the trip.
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Question 751913: if you run 12ft per hour and your friend runs 10ft per hour but gets a 1000 feet head start how long will it take you to catch up

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Question 526926: what is the speed if a car traveled 400km in 5hr
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Question 751437: 5 hens lay 6 eggs every 2 days.How many eggs will 25 chickens lay in 40 days?

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Question 751586: A boat travels 6 miles in 2 hours upstream and 5 miles in 1 hour downstream. Find the speed of the boat and the speed of the current if both speeds are constant.
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Question 751490: Travelling@ 29mph what distance covered in 1.4 seconds

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Question 750996: The distance from Dayton to Indianapolis is 120 miles and it is 180 miles from Indianapolis to Chicago. If a car needs 4 gallons of gasoline to drive from Dayton to Indianapolis, how many gallons of gasoline will it need to drive to Chicago from Dayton?
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Question 751430: A girl walks 5 miles in 2 hours. what is her average speed in meters per second?
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Question 751433: an arrow is shot into the air from a building that is 32ft high. the height of the arrow after t seconds is given by the formula h(t)=-16t^2+48t+32=0
when will the arrow hit the ground?

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Question 751409: A girl walks 5 miles in 2 hours. What is her average speed in miles per hour?

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Question 751227: suppose you ride your bike 350 meters in 10 seconds. what is your average speed?
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Question 751227: suppose you ride your bike 350 meters in 10 seconds. what is your average speed?
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Question 751115: A race car driver averaged 140 miles/hour. If the driver completed the race in 2 and a half hours how long was the race?
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Question 751119: Two cars are traveling on the same road and start from the same location. When the blue car starts the trip the red car has already traveled 40 miles. The speed of the blue car is 70 mph and the speed of the red car is 50 mph
a). How long does it take the blue car to catch the red car?
b). How far have they traveled from the starting point when the blue car catches the red car?

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Question 750916: Two cruise ships set sail from Florida on the same day. One makes a round trip every 12 days. The other makes a round trip every 16 days. In how many days will both cruise ships be in Florida?
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Question 750824: If a woman jogs at a speed of 4 mph over a distance of 2 miles. How much time did it take her for the run?
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Question 750787: kelly rides her bike from city A to city B , how long is her ride
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Question 750630: A pilot can fly a plane at 125 mph in calm air. A recent trip of 300 mi flying with the wind and 300 mi returning against the wind took 5 h. Find the rate of the wind
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Question 750583: two cars leave from a city at the same time and travel in the same direction.One car travels one-third and two-third times as fast as the other. After 3 hr. they are 150 mi apart. What are the speeds of the cars?

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Question 750288: A student must leave for campus in 10 minutes or he will be late for class. Unfortunately, he is snowed in. He can shovel the driveway in 16 minutes, and his brother claims to be able to do it in 14 minutes. If they shovel together, how long will it take to clear the driveway? Will this give enough time for the student to get to the campus?
It will take about ____ minutes to clear the driveway together.
Will this give the student enough time to get to the campus?
I tried to solve this and came up with the wrong answer and am hoping I can find out where I am wrong. It will take about __x__ minutes to clear the driveway together. So, 1/x =1/14+1/16 x = 7.47
So It will take about __7.47__ minutes to clear the driveway together. I also tried 8 and it was also wrong, thank you!
This will give the student enough time to get to the campus
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Question 750516: what are the zeros of the quadratic equations
22=6x^2+13
y=2x^2-11x
y=x^2+x-12
Please show work, thank you.
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Question 750544: A boat takes 8 hours to go 6 miles upstream and come back to the starting point. If the speed of the boat is 4 miles per hour in still water, what is the rate of the current?
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Question 750379: Aya rode her bicycle from her house to a friend's house, averaging 16 kilometers per hour. It turned dark before she ready to return home, so her friend drove her home at a rate of 80 kilometers per hour. If Aya's total traveling time was 3 hours, how far away did her friend live?
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Question 750452: A car movin at 60 km/h covers a journey in 4 hours.how long will it take to cover the journey if its speed is reduced to 45km/h
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Question 750453: How long is the distance of bird key park and Sarasota's Bay Front Park?
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Question 750279: A truck can travel 140 miles in the same time it takes a car to travel 180 miles. If the trucks rate is 10 miles per hour slower than the cars, find the average rate for each.
The rate of the car is ____ miles per hour.
The rate of the truck is ____ miles per hour.
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Question 750363: How long takes a car traveling at 35 mph travel 1000 feet?
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Question 750363: How long takes a car traveling at 35 mph travel 1000 feet?
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Question 750340: a motorcycle is travelling at 55 kilometers per hour how far will it go in four hours
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Question 750326: 25 miles average speed of 50 mph how long would it take?
Also
25 miles average speed of 60 mph how long would it take?
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Question 750301: Please help me solve this word problem:
Jerry takes 6 hours to ride a bicycle 30 minutes against the wind. He takes two hours to return with the wind. Find Jerry's average riding speed in still air and the average speed of the wind.
*thank you ^_^*
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Question 750289: A train is traveling east at 124 miles per hour. Which direction is it traveling?
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Question 750284: The speed of a stream is 2 mph. A boat travels 8 miles upstream in the same time it takes to travel 12 miles downstream. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
The speed is ___ mph.
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Question 750272: Sam drove 200 miles at an average rate of speed of 50 miles per hour.How long did he travel which one is the answer t=200/50 t=200*50 or t=50/200
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Question 750254: A truck traveled the first 200 miles of a trip at one speed and the last 225 miles at the average speed of 5 mph less. the entire trip took 10 hours. what were the two average speeds?
So far I have tried 200x+250(x-5)=10 and I got x=2.8 and -2.2 which is obviously wrong. Please help!
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Question 750121: 1.3 person starts walking on circular track at speed of 10,20 & 40 mtr per sec.Where they will meet on 1km circular track?
3 person starts walking on 1km long track at speed of 10,20 & 40 mtr per sec.Where they will meet ?
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Question 750139: Thor's average driving speed is 15 kilometers per hour faster than Doug's. in the same length of time it takes Thor to drive 267 kilometers, Doug drives only 222 kilometers.What is Thor's average speed?
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