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Question 516091: Two planes start from Los Angeles International Airport and fly in opposite directions. The second plane starts 1/2 hour after the first plane, but its speed is 100 kilometers per hour faster. Find the airspeed of each plane if 2 hours after the first plane departs the planes are 3300 kilometers apart.
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Question 516105: if you are driving 60 mph, how far have you traveled in 5 seconds
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Question 321874: Juan drives to work. Because of traffic conditions, he averages 22 miles per hour. He returns home averaging 32 miles per hour. The total travel time is 2and1/4 hours.
a. Define a variable for the time Juan takes to work. Write an expression for the time Juan takes to return home.
b. Write and solve an equation to find the time Juan spends driving to work.
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Question 516159: how do you transfer kilometers per hour to find out how many minutes it takes you to reach a destination?
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Question 516150: A hybrid car gets 60 miles per gallon of gas in the city and 51 miles per gallon on
the highway. During the week, the hybrid uses 12 gallons of gas and travels 675 miles. How many miles did the hybrid drive in the city? How many miles were driven on the highway?
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Question 516178: Two riders depart from city a to city b. One rider rides at 12 mph and other rider at 18 mph. Slower rider takes 1.5 hours longer to ride the distance.
How long did it take both riders to reach the destination
How far is city a to city b?
HELP!!!! How am I supposed to figure out how far the cities are from each other without any information on one or the other? And 1.5 hours to ride the distance??? AARRRGGGHHHH!!!!
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Question 516244: what distance would you travel? if you drove for 4 hours at an average speed of 85km/h
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Question 516284: a train covers a distance of 220 mi in 2hr and 45min.calculate the average speed of the train in m/s.
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Question 516299: How long would it take for a car to travel 1/4 of a mile going at a speed of 20 mi/h ?
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Question 516321: how many hours does it take to travel 68 miles at a speed of 70 miles per hour
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Question 516323: Dwight traveled 350 miles and averaged 70 miles per hour. How many minutes did he take to complete the trip?
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Question 516334: A car left seattle traveling 45mph. A second car left from the same place one hour later on the same road traveling 60mph. How long will it take the second car to catch up with the first car. Which of these is the correct second eqaution for the problem?
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Question 516340: Two buses leave Dallas at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One bus travels at 58 mph and the other travels at 52mph when will they be 363 miles apart?
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Question 516391: A tennis ball is thrown vertically upward with
an initial velocity of +7.4 m/s.
What will the ball’s velocity be when it
returns to its starting point? The acceleration
of gravity is 9.81 m/s2.
Answer in units of m/s
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Question 516464: How long would it take a car to travel a distance of 1.5 miles at the rate of 220 miles per hour?
d = r * t so we know the distance is 1.5 miles and the rate is 220 mph:
1.5 = 220t
We need to isolate t so we divide each side of the equation by 220:
1.5/220 = t
Simplify further:
t = 0.0068
I don't understand where I went wrong!
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Question 516473: If dan biked 27 miles yesterday. if he biked 3 times as far as joe , how far did joe bike
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Question 516527: if i travel 75 mph how many miles will i cover in 10 hrs.
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Question 516561: If I drive at a rate of 100km/h for a total time of 2 hours and 12 minutes,what distance of kilometers will I travel? PLEASE DO A EXPLANATION!
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Question 516577: if the distance is 24km and the speed is 12km wat will the time be

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Question 516574: the number of kilometers traveled by a bus is represented by x. If a train travled 200 kilometers father than the bus, repreent the number of kilometers travled by train.
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Question 516598: Hello! Could you please help me with the problem. It appears more complicated than I thought.
The trip from the house to the lake at 30mi/h takes 12 min longer then the return trip at 48mi/h. How far apart are the lake and the house.
Thank you
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Question 516653: I know the answer but I don't know how to write the problem. "There are 6 time zones in the US. The eastern part of the US, including New York is in the eastern time zone, The central time zone includes dallas is one hour behind the eastern time zone. San Diego is in the pacific time which is 3 hours behind eastern time. Write and solve an equation to determine what time it is in california if it is noon in new york.
I know the answer is 9am I just don't know how to write it

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Question 516665: A train leaves Lexington for Indianapolis, 200 miles away, at 2:00 PM and averages 60 miles per hour. A second train traveling on an adjacent track leaves Indianapolis for Lexington at 4:30 PM and averages 40 miles per hour. At what time will the trains meet? (Round to the nearest minute.)
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Question 516790: How long does it take to travel 2 miles at 155 miles per hour??
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Question 516862: What is the speed of a boat and a current, if a boat travels 48 miles downstream in three hours. Than takes 6 hours to travel the same distance upstream?
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Question 516882: 1 train leaves a location at 12:00pm travelling
At 40 mph. The second train leaves from the same location
2 hours later travelling at 60mph. If both trains are travelling on parallel
Tracks, what time will the 2nd train pass the 1st train?
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Question 516956: how many hours to drive 560 miles at 65 miles per hour
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Question 516986: I have a rendering that has taken 17hrs to be at 70%. How much more time will it take to get to 100%
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Question 516983: what distance will a car traveling 65 km/hr travel in 3.0 hrs?
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Question 516924: Wendy Stasnick drives for a number of hours at 70 miles per hour. Road construction appears and traffic slows and she drivess at 50 miles per hour. She travels at 50 miles per hour for .5 hours longer then she traveled at 70 miles per hour. The difference in the distance traveled at 50 mph and 70 mph is 5 miles. How long was Wendy driving at 50 mph?
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Question 517045: An airplane takes the same time to travel 2500 km with the wind as it does to travel 1900 km against the wind. If its speed relative to the air is 450 km/hr, what is the speed of the wind?
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Question 517047: Passenger train is 18 mph faster than the speed of a freight train. Train travels at 330 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 240 miles. Find the speed of each train.
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Question 517059: A motorboat leaves the harbor at 7 am at the rate of 9 mph towards a small island. Two hours later, a cabin cruiser leaves the same station at the rate of 18 mph towards the same island. At what time will the Cabin Cruiser overtake the first?
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Question 517080: An aeroplane is flying at a distance of 350 km/h. How long will it take the aeroplane to travel 750 km?
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Question 517088: An aeroplane is flying at a speed of 350 km/h. How long will it take the aeroplane to travel 750 km?

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Question 517224: A bug glows once every 1 1/2 seconds. How many times can it glow in 1min?
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Question 517244: A car leaves an intersection traveling east. Its position t sec later is given by
x = t^2 + t
ft. At the same time, another car leaves the same intersection heading north, traveling
y = t^2 + 3t ft
in t sec. Find the rate at which the distance between the two cars will be changing 3 sec later.?
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Question 517253: when susan drove to work this morning she averaged 60 miles per hour.because of an accident she only averaged 20 miles per hour for her drive home. if her total time travel is 2 hours, how long did it take her to drive to work and how long did it take her to get home?
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Question 517263: At 9:00 am, two cars started from the same town and traveled north on the same road. One car averaged 45 mph, and the other car averaged 40 mph. In how many hours were the cars 30 miles apart?

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Question 517287: A car travels at an average speed of 48 miles per hour. How long does it take to travel 264 miles?
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Question 517389: Jenny went on a road trip to Chicago. On her trip she averaged 62 miles per hour. What was her average speed in inches per second ?

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