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Question 489687: a train leaves at noon with constant velocity of 40 mi/hr another train leaves at 2pm with constant velocity of 70 mi/hr at what mile do they catch up?
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Question 489701: A car travels at the rate of 40 mph for 3 hours. What distance does it travel?
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Question 489922: If George travels 12 miles and his car averages 50 miles per hour, how long will it take George to complete the distance? Express this situation in an equation, making "t" the variable for time.

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Question 489928: A man drives 500 ft along a road which is inclined 20° to the horizontal. How high above his starting point is he
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Question 490026: An old bus and a new bus left the same station heading in the same direction at 5:00 am. The old bus was traveling at 40 miles per hour, and the new bus was traveling at 50 miles per hour. If the busses keep going at those rates without stopping, how far apart will they be at 10:00 am?
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Question 490154: if i traveled 4,000 kilometers, should i walk, bike, or take a plane?
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Question 490168: a car covers one -quarter of distance to the next town at 40km/hr,another quater at 50km/hr,and the rest at 90km/hr,find the car's average speed for the entire distance
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Question 490175: A flare is launched from a life raft with an initial upward velocity of 192 feet per second. how many seconds will it take for the flare to return to the sea? use the formula h=vt-16t^2
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Question 490147: At 11:00 am, Kate left the Clinton toll booth traveling west 80 km/h. At 12:00 pm, Juan left the toll booth traveling west at 72 km/h. At what time will the two cars be at 98 km apart?
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Question 490150: Suppose a gas tank for a car holds 12 gallons, and that the car uses 1/20 of a gallon per mile. Let X be the number of miles the car has gone since the tank was last filled.
A) Write an expression for the number of gallons left after "X" miles
B) How many gallons are left after 100 miles
C) Write an equation stating that 5 gallons are left , then solve it to find out how far the car has gone when 5 gallons remain.
D) How far has the car gone when it runs out of gas?
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Question 490197: Two planes flew in opposite directions, the average speed of plane A is 332 km/hr, while plane B travels at an average speed of 298 km/hr, my question is that, how many kilometers apart will they be after 30 minutes?
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Question 490243: wo trains are 2 kms apart. Speed of one train is 20m/s and the other train is running at 30 m/s .Lengths of the trains are 200 and 300m. In how much time do the trains cross eac Log On
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Question 490279: true or false ?
a plane flying against a jet stream will travel faster than a plane traveling with a jet stream.
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Question 490373: If a truck is driving 40 miles per hour for 0.4 miles, how long is it driving for?
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Question 490371: Five minutes after starting from rest, a bike’s velocity is 50 km/hr. What is the bike’s acceleration?
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Question 490436: Tom drove 3.5 hours @ speed of 45 miles an hr, find how far he drove until nearest 10 miles..
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Question 490712: How far would I have travelled if I did 1078 steps in 45minutes

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Question 490676: Fing the distance(d)traveled by the truck moving at a rate(r)of 55 mi/h for the time (t)of 8 using the formula d= rt.
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Question 490621: Your car's gas tank is full and you take a trip. You travel 209 miles, then you fill your gas tank up again and it takes 10.0 gallons. If you designate your change in distance as 209 miles and your change in gallons as 10.0, what is the average rate of change of gasoline used, measured in gallons per mile?

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Question 490709: if a person runs 1 mile in 10 minutes how many miles will it take them to run in 1 minute ?
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Question 490709: if a person runs 1 mile in 10 minutes how many miles will it take them to run in 1 minute ?
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Question 490735: a black racer snake travels 34.5 km in 15 hours. What is the speed in km/h

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Question 490521: A person takes a trip, driving with a constant
speed 87.3 km/h except for a 27.4 min rest
stop.
If the person’s average speed is 74.6 km/h,
how much time is spent on the trip?
Answer in units of h
How far does the person travel?
Answer in units of km
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Question 490780: This the answer a got for part A of the problem I submitted which is 1B
1.Many people know that the weight of an object varies on different planets, but did you know that the weight of an object on Earth also varies according to the elevation of the object? In particular, the weight of an object follows this equation: -2, where C is a constant and r is the distance in miles that the object is from the center of the earth.
1A) Solve the equation w = Cr-2 for r. I do have the answer, so could please answer the question 1B,

This is my question
1B. Suppose that an object is 150 pounds when it is at sea level. Find the value of C that makes the equation true. (Sea level is 3,963 miles from the center of the earth

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Question 490785: in the morning, maria drove to a business appointment at 70 mph. Her average speed on the return trip in the afternoon was 60 mph. The return trip took 1/6 hr longer because of heavy traffic. How far did she travel to the appointment?
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Question 490846: a man cycles at 18 km/mph how far would he travel between 8am and 3pm if he stops for an hour for lunch?
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Question 490848: the ratio petrol to oil is 25 to 1. how much oil would you use in 5l of petrol?
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Question 490927: 1.how far is it in miles from the bus station to the hospital
about how many miles is it from Hilo to captain cook

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Question 490841: You row upstream at 5 mph and downstream at 11 mph. You row upstream until you get tired and then downstream to your starting point. How far did you row if the entire trip took 4 hours?
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Question 490999: Lakeview is 69 miles from Springfield. Irania must go to the library in Springfield to get a document for the law firm for which she works. Find how long it takes for her to drive round-trip if she averages 43 mph.
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Question 491014: A Racing car completes a 15 km lap of a track in 5 minutes express this speed in km/hr
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Question 490906: The time a passenger train takes to cross another freight train is twice when the passenger train crosses the freight train running in opposite directions. What is the ratio of their speeds?? how to solve such kinda Q??
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Question 491121: You are driving 52 miles per hour, how many feet will you travel in 40 seconds?
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Question 491125: Two cyclists, 128 miles apart, start riding toward each other at the same time. One cycles 3 times as fast as the other. If they meet 4 hours later, what is the speed (in mi/h) of the faster cyclist?
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Question 491200: A police car leaves in pursuit of holdup car 0.5 hours after the latter has left the scene of the crime at 86mi/hr. How fast in mi/hr must the police car go if it is to catch up with the holdup car in one hour?
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Question 491453: the hot air balloon has traveled 45 miles. This is 3/4 of it's final destination. How much further does it have to go?
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Question 491551: A train traveling at 45.0 miles per hour has to make a trip of 120.0 miles. how many minutes will the trip take>
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Question 491602: Two cars are 525 miles apart. They start at the same time and travel toward each other. One travels at a rate of 55mph and the other at a rate of 50mph. In how many hours will they meet?
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Question 491609: There are many NFL players that can run 135 feet in 6 seconds. At this rate, what is the speed in miles per hour?
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Question 491604: Your friend's family moved to a town 300 miles from where you live. You and your friend decide to meet halfway between the two towns to visit. Your friend averages 50 miles for hour on his trip. You average 60 miles per hour on your trip. If you and your friend leave at the same place, how much earlier do your arrive at the same place?
I don't understand how to come up with an equation for this problem.
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Question 491645: Two trains heading toward each other are 360 miles apart. One train travels at 10 mi/hr faster than the other train. If they meet in four hours how fast is each train traveling?
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Question 491698: If the equation describing the motion of a rocket is x=10+5t^2, find its average speed during the first 5.0 seconds of flight.
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Question 491716: how many liters of 60% alcohol solution and 40% alcohol solution should be mixed to obtain twenty liters of a 45% alcohol solution?
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Question 491891: An aircraft carrier left Hawaii traveling west seven hours before a container ship. The containe ship traveled in the opposite direction going 5 km/h slower than the aircraft carrier for six hours. At this time the ships were 540 km apart. Find the speed of both ships.
I can't figure out how to set up the equation.

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