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Question 452377: Train "A" is 5 hours away from town "B" by train. Trains leave "A" every hour on the hour headed for "B". Trains leave "B" every hour on the half hour headed for "A". As you ride from "A" to "B" how many trains bound from "B" to "A" would pass?
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Question 458640: An electron, starting at rest and moving with a constant acceleration, travels 4.9 cm in 14 ms. What is the magnitude of this acceleration? Answer in units of km/s^2
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Question 458933: Two planes left the airport at the same time. One flew north traveling at 325 mi/hr, and the other flew sourth at an average speed of 400 mi/hr. In how many hours will they be 2,900 miles apart?
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Question 458850: 6 hrs to fly 2400 miles against wind than 5 hrs with wind find speed of wind and speed d of airplane in still air
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Question 458791: There are two trains. One train leaves at 5:00 PM From Chicago and is traveling at 50 MPH. The other train leaves from New Orleans at 5:30 PM also going 50 MPH. At what time would both trains have gone 325 miles.
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Question 458524: Bicyclists Andrew and Mark started at noon from points 60 km apart and rode towards each other meeting at 1:30 pm. Andrew's speed was 4km/h greater than Mark's speed. Find their speeds.
If a driver leaves now and drives 66km/h, he will reach town A just in time. On the other hand, if he has lunch first and leaves in 40 min, he will have to drive at 90 km/h to make it on time. How far is the town A?
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Question 453629: Two airplanes leave an airport at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One plane travels 95 km/h slower than the other. If the two planes are 6556 km apart after 4 hours, what is the rate of each plane?
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Question 454233: you are traveling at a speed of ____ if it took you three hours to travel 45 kilometers
Options:
*15 km/hr
*15 mph
*45 km/hr
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Question 458996: : Distance between City A and City B is 60 kilometres. A driver should go from City A to City B for 1 hour. If first 30 kilometres the driver drives with 30 km/h what should be his speed during last 30 kilometres so he arrives in City B on time?
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Question 459079: Please help me solve this problem. The speed of a red car is 300% more than the speed of a blue car. How many percent less time does the red car need to travel the same route as the blue car? Thanks1
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Question 459117: A plane flies 900 miles with a tail wind in 3 hours.It takes the same plane 2 hours to fly the 300 miles when flying against the wind. What is the plan's speed in still air?
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Question 459151: sue and may ride bikes in opposite directions. may rides 5 mph faster then sue. if they are 25 miles apart after one hour, find sues rate of speed
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Question 454491: Distance and Time. A bicyclist rides uphill at 10
miles per hour for 5 miles and then rides downhill at
20 miles per hour for 5 miles. What is the bicyclist’s
average speed? (Hint: Average speed equals distance
divided by time.)
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Question 454553: At a track meet, a runner runs the 100. m dash in 25 s. What was the runner's average speed?
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Question 454595: one car is traveling 30 mph faster than the other. The faster car goes 90 miles in the ssame time the slower car travels 60 miles. How fast are the cars traveling?
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Question 454598: Two friends meet together at the bike path. One is on roller blades and the other bikes. The biker goes 8mph faster than the skater. The biker goes 52 miles and the skater goes 28 miles. How fast is each going?
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Question 454685: the speed of a boat in still water is 28 mph. the boat traveled 70 mi down a river in the same amount of time it took to travel 42 mi up the river. find the rate of the river's current.
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Question 454702: a canoeist makes a 24-mile trip, traveling with the current, in two hours. traveling against the current, the return trip takes three hours. what is the rate of the current?
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Question 454803: a ship carrying toy rubber sharks, bound from san francisco to hawaii, over turned shortly after they left the harbor. The voyage is 2900 miles and the california current flows at an average speed of 2.4 miles per day. the trip is supposed to take 10 days. how many days did it actually take the toy sharks to finally reach their destination?
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Question 459305: jose left the white house and drove towards the recycling plant an a average speed of 40 km/h. rob left some time later driving in the same direction at an average speed of 48 km/h. after driving 5 hours rob caught up with jose. how long did jose drive before rob caught up.

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Question 459354: If a train carrying 200 passengers stops at 12 stops 10 miles apart from each other & the first stop was at 9am...wat time will the 12th stop be?
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Question 459342: Time it would take to travel .5 mile at 10.3 mph
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Question 459218: A journey takes 2 hours longer travelling at 60km/hr than when travelling at 80km/hr. How long does it take when travelling at 80km/hr?
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Question 459004: Louis lives 5 miles from school and jogs at a rate of 6 mph. Andrea lives 3.9 miles from school and jogs at a rate of 6.5 mph. Andrea leaves her house at 7am. When should Louis leave his house to arrive at school at the same time as Andrea?
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Question 454978: the speed of a boat in still water is 28 mph. the boat traveled 70 mi down a river in the same amount of time it took to travel 42 mi up the river. find the rate of the river's current
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Question 455398: How fast would you drive 5 miles while traveling at a distance of 255 miles per hour?
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Question 455757: Please help me solve this word problem: The express train traveled at a speed that was three times as fast as the freight train. The express train traveled 630 miles in one hour less than it took the freight train to travel 360 miles. What were the speed and time for both the express train and the freight train?
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Question 455781: A jogger travelled at the speed of 10 km/h for 6 minutes. How many kilometers did she travel?
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Question 455799: how far does a plane travel in 5 hours if it averages 500 miles per hour

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Question 455812: There are 4 students who must share a computer equally. They have 9 hours to use it. How much time does each student get to use the computer ?
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Question 456621: if a train leaves at 5 am at traveling at 100 miles an hour At what time will the train have traveled 375 miles
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Question 456669: Train A & B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling 40mph & train B is traveling 50mph, train A passes a station at 1:20 am. If train B passes throught the same ststion at 1:32 am, at what time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 456683: Please answer my question.
Ruth was hauling a wide load out of Portland. At 7:00a.m. she headed north from exit 102 at an average speed of 35mph. Michael headed north from the same exit at 9:00a.m. in his Pontiac. By 3:00p.m. the same day Michael was 20 miles ahead of Ruth. What was Michael's average speed?
Thank you for your help.
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Question 456826: At noon a private plane left Austin for Los Angeles, 2100 km away, flying at 500 km/hr. One hour later, a jet left Los Angeles for Austin at 700 km/hr. What time did they pass each other?
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Question 458979: if a plane can travel 500 mkiles per hour with the wind and 400 miles per hour against the wind, find the speed of the plane in still air

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Question 458988: The Danville Express travels 280 mi. at a certain speed. If the speed had been increased by 5 mph, the trip could have been made in 1 hour less time. Find the actual speed. I cannot figure the formula to use to figure this problem. Can you please help me?
Michele
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Question 459443: On Monday, Jim walked to school at a rate of 8 km/hr. On Tuesday, Jim jogged to school at a rate of 12 km/hr. If it took Jim a half an hour longer to walk to school, how far is the school from his house?

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Question 445748: Steve traveled 200 miles at a certain speed. Had he gone 10 mph faster, the trip would have been 1 hour less. Find the speed of his vehicle.
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Question 445774: A motorboat takes two thirds as much time to travel ten miles downstream as it does to travel the same distance upstream. If the rate of the current is 5 mph, find the speed of the motorboat in still water.
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Question 459467: A praticular hybrid car travels apporimtly 270 mi on 5 gal of gas. Find the amount of gas required for an 810 mile trip.
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Question 459501: A man runs one hour and a half at 8 miles an hour. Then he continues on bus traveling at 55 miles an hour for 24 minutes. How far did he travel?
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Question 447474: as partof an exercise plan camille walked for 40 min then ran for 20 min. if camille runs 3 mph faster than she walks and covered 5 mi during the 1 hour execercise period, what is her walking speed?
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Question 446002: Lou leaves a rest stop on bicycle traveling 20 miles per hour. his friends leave the same rest stop 15 mins later. how fast will his friends have to drive to reach lou in thirty miles?
I have already made a chart with distance, rate, and time. I filled it out with 30 miles under distance, 20 miles per hour under rate and x on time. I don't know what to do after completing a table that will help me solve.
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