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Question 571498: It took Fran 5.4 to drive to her mothers house on saturday morning. On sunday it took her 6 hours to get home. Her average speed was 7 mph slower, what was the average speed on sunday?
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Question 571335: a boat traveled 135 mules downstream and back. The trip downstream took 5 hours and the return trip took 9 hours. If the speed of the current is 6 mph, what is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 571298: A train leaves the terminal averaging 45 MPH. A second train leaves the same terminal 2 hours later, averaging 60 MPH. How long will it take the second train to catch up to the first train?

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Question 571226: The length of the Euphrates River exceeds that of the Tigris by 620 miles. If they have a combined length of 2880 miles how long is each river. I know the answer but am unsure how to set it up like a problem.
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Question 571009: 1. which speed is greater? 35 km/h or 50 mi/h?
2. what is the difference between speed and velocity?
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Question 571015: Here is the problem I'm stuck on...
A commercial jet travels 1,620 miles in the same amount of time that a corporate jet travels 1,260 miles. The rate of the commercial jet is 120 miles per hour faster than the rate of the corporate jet. Find the rate of each jet.
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Question 571025: So I had a kinda hard test today...well it was easy until this hard head wind/tail wind problem came up. The problem went like this Johnny went head wind (east to west I believe) from Miami to San Francisco 2100 miles at 5.6 lies per hour. When this other person (a girl) went tail wind (west to east) from San Francisco to Miami 2100 miles too but only took 4.8 miles per hour...what is the air speed and the wind speed?
Help??? Please...has anybody heard of this problem before or know where I could find it?
Thanks!!! :)
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Question 571071: A pharmaceutical salesperon's monthly income depends on the amount of his sales. His monthly income is a salary of $750 plus 11% of his monthlyh sales. Write a linear equation for his monthlyhincome for sales of x dollars. (I=mx+b).
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Question 571066: Question asks:A jet plane traveling at 500 mph overtakes a propeller plane traveling at 200 mph that had a 2-hour head start. How far from the starting points are the planes?
I am just really having a hard time figuring out how to set this problem up. I have tried making a chart but I'm not sure what to do with them.
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Question 571032: Sarah drove from Ajax to Bixby at an average speed of 50 mi/h. On the way back, she drove 60 mi/h. The total trip took 4 2/5 hours of driving time. Find the distance between the cities. I tried doing a chart but the answer I got just didnt make sense at all. Word problems are not my fortay.
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Question 571019: Plane moving at 90 m/ hour and plane at 116mph they are 2060 miles apart when will they meet
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Question 570977: How many hours will it take me to traval 72 miles at 65mph?
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Question 570968: While driving through Canada, you traveled 65 kilometers in 58 minutes. What was your average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 570962: A ferry travels at 15 miles per hour how long does it take the ferry to travel 13.4 miles?
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Question 570963: If you go 75 MPH for 200 miles how long will it take to travel that distance?
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Question 570884: two planes 1350 miles apart are flying toward each other at different altitudes. if one is flying at 250 miles per hour and the other at 290 miles per hour, how long will it take them to pass each other?
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Question 570853: a woman jogs 2 km at 8km/h and then walks for 2 km at 6 km/h. what is her average speed for entire trip?
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Question 570853: a woman jogs 2 km at 8km/h and then walks for 2 km at 6 km/h. what is her average speed for entire trip?
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Question 570828: Steve gets on the elevator at the 11th floor of the building and rides up at a rate of 57 floors per minute. At the same time, Joyce gets on an elevator on the 51st floor of the same building and rides down at a rate of 63 floors per minute. If they continue travelling at these rates, at which floor will their paths cross?
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Question 570821: A boat can travel on a river 10 miles upstream in the same time it takes to travel 14 miles downstream. Find the speed of the current if the speed of the boat in still water is 18 miles per hour
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Question 570751: Two trains start from stations that are 900 miles apart and travel toward each other on parallel tracks. One train averages 55 miles per hour, and the other train averages 65 miles per hour. How long will it take for the two trains to be 120 miles apart?
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Question 570740: Helena drives from town A to town B at x mph, and drives back at y mph. What is her average speed for the round trip? If the round trip takes t hours, how far apart are the towns?
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Question 570699: If a truck gets 12 miles a gallon and has a 55 gallon gas tank, how many miles can you go before you need to fill up the tank?
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Question 570620: A bush baby, an African primate, is capable of leaping vertically to the remarkable height of 2.3 . To jump this high, the bush baby accelerates over a distance of 0.16 while extending the legs. The acceleration during the jump is approximately constant.
i)What is the acceleration in ?
ii)What is the acceleration in 's?

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Question 570654: I am traveling 92 miles one way, going 30 mph, how long until i reach my destination?
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Question 570609: If a boat is traveling downstream to a destination and it takes 40 minutes in a 3 mph current. Traveling the same distance going upstream with 3mph current it takes 60 minutes. How fast would the boat be traveling in still water?

I'm not even sure how to go about this but I think going downhill the boat is going 13.3mph and uphill the boat is having to go 20mph?
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Question 570438: A bus travel 300 miles on 16 gallons of gas. Write and solve a proportion to find how many gallons the bus needs to travel 715 miles.
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Question 570424: 4how long dose it take to travle 250 miles at an average speed of 20 mi/h
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Question 570231: Two cars are traveling in opposite directions and at different rates. Two hours later the cars are 210 mi apart. Express the distance traveled by the faster car in terms of x, the distance traveled by the slower car.
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Question 570215: If I ran a total distance of 3.688 in 30 minutes and 7 seconds in time, how fast did I go?
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Question 570005: A truck drives for 7 hours at an average speed of 72 mph. How far did the driver go?
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Question 569934: a car travels at a rate of 60 kilometer per hour how far it will travel in:
1 hour ?
2 hours ?
3 hours ?
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Question 569986: Hello - thank you for helping with the following quesiton:
With a tail wind, a plane flew 240 km in 45 minutes. With no change in the wind, the return trip took 48 minutes. Find the wind speed and the air speed of the plane.
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Question 569937: On a road trip, five friends drove at 50 miles per hour to California. On the way home, they took the same route but drove 65 miles per hour. How many miles did they drive on the way to California if the trip took 10 hours?
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Question 569942: Two planes are flying from San Francisco to Chicago, a distance of 1,800 miles. They leave San Francisco at the same time. After 30 minutes, one plane has traveled 25 more miles than the other plane. How much longer will it take the slower plane to get to Chicago than the faster plane if the faster plane is traveling at 500 miles per hour?
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Question 569778: if a car travels 90 km per hour, how far will it travel in 1 minute? im only in grade 5 so these questions might not be that challenging to you!:P:D
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Question 569739: a jogger goes 8km in 1.6 hours, what is the joggers average speed?

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Question 569739: a jogger goes 8km in 1.6 hours, what is the joggers average speed?

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Question 569746: at 70mph whats the distance traveled after 20 minutes
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Question 569730: I need help with these two word problems
In 2005, there were 66,000 new cases of skin cancer in the United States. Men
represented 10,000 more cases than women. How many new cases of skin cancer
were there for men and for women?
A boat can travel 36 miles upstream in the same time that it can travel 54 miles
downstream. If the speed of the current is 3 miles per hour, what is the speed
of the boat without a current?

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Question 569726: if a boat leaves Miami at 6:00pm and arrives in Nassau at 1:30am. How long did it take the boat to travel from Miami to Nassau
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Question 569654: Please help, I have set this equation up several times and it is wrong! An athlete ran 6 mph and later cycled 20 mph to complete a 90 mile course. How far did she run and cycle
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Question 569638: Speed limit is 55 miles. How many kilometers can they travel?
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Question 569616: Here is the math problem:

The height of an object in free fall, or otherwise thrown into the air near the earth's surface, with initial vertical velocity v0 in feet per seconds, and from the initial height h0 in feet, at any given time t in seconds is given by the equation:

h(t)= -16t^2 + v0t + h0

At 1821 feet tall, the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada is the world's tallest...etc. Suppose an object is dropped from the top of the tower (just released not pushed) .

1. The equation above find h0 and v0
2. The height of the object 2.3 seconds after being released.

Please help, even if you could show me how to proper start this problem I would be thankful! :]
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