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Question 518777: Rob can deliver papers 4 times as fast as his younger brother. If they work together, it takes them 2 hours. How long would it take each to deliver the papers alone?
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Question 518772: A car travels 240 miles. A second car, traveling 12 mph faster that the first, makes the same trip in 1 hour less time. Find the speed of each car.
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Question 518847: Jessica can row 3 miles uptstream in the same time it takes to row 5 miles downstream. If the speed of the current is 10mph, what is the speed of the rowboat in still water?
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Question 518869: If a sloth moves at 2.6 feet per .8 minutes how many miles per hour does it move?
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Question 518890: Lee can walk 8 miles in the same time it takes Sabrina to walk 6 miles. If Lee walks 1 mile per hour faster than Sabrina, then how fast does each of them walk?

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Question 518914: i jerry is traveling to sues house. he needs to know how far away she lives from him. if jerry lives at(8,4) and sue lives at(-5,-3, how far is sues house from jerry.
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Question 518908: if a car travelled 5 kilometer an hour faster it would take one hour les to travel 210 km.What is the speed of car and what time does it take.
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Question 518899: At noon, a car B is 10 km north of another car A. Car A travels to the east at
30 km/h and car B travels south at 40 km/h. When will they be the closest to each other?
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Question 518904: Ann is going for a walk. She takes 5 hours to walk 12.5 miles. What is her speed?
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Question 518949: A doctor squirts a small amount of liquid from a syringe vertically. If the liquid emerges with a velocity of 5.5 m/s how long does it take for the liquid to return to the level of the syringe and what is the maximum height it can reach?
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Question 518946: A stationary cyclist is passed by another cyclist riding with a constant speed of 3.4 m/s. Immediately as the other bike passes the stationary bicyclist hops on his bike and accelerates at 2.4m/s2 until he catches up. (a) How much time does it take to catch up and how far has he travelled in this time?
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Question 519067: The cash price for Roger’s new car was $9,428. The dealer required a 20% down payment. The rest was financed. Roger agreed to repay the loan in 36 payments. The monthly payments included the finance charge and came to $231.18. What was the total cost of the car?
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Question 519152: Melinda walked a six-mile path in 1 hour 45 minutes. At first she walked at a rate of 4mph then she finished at a rate of 3mph. How far did she walk at 4mph?
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Question 518962: If Judy runs the 100 yard track and Mary runs the 75 yard track, how many times will they each have to run to complete the same number of yards
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Question 519203: distance traveled in 12 minutes at 1.3 miles per hour
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Question 519176: What is answer?
A group of boy scout can row 4km in still water per hour. it takes them as long to 6km upstream as 10 km downstream. How fast it is current?
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Question 519226: if a boy walks 200 meters in 30 minutes what is his average rate on meter per hour?

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Question 519252: A real estate agent drove to a remote property. She averaged 50 mph to the property and 48 mph on her return trip. Her total driving time was 4 hours and 54 minutes. How far was the property?
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Question 519213: A bicycle trip of 90 miles would have taken an hour less if the average speed had been increased by 3mi/h. Find the average speed of the biclycle
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Question 519291: if I walk 2.4 miles in 38 minutes, how many miles per hour am I walking?
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Question 519291: if I walk 2.4 miles in 38 minutes, how many miles per hour am I walking?
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Question 518948: Pat has $3.80 in nickels and dimes. If there are 51 coins in all, how many of them are nickels

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Question 518948: Pat has $3.80 in nickels and dimes. If there are 51 coins in all, how many of them are nickels

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Question 519323: two cars going in opposite direction. car B travel 25mph faster then car A. in 6 hours the cars are 620 mile apart. find the speed of each car.
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Question 519177: On a 42km go-kart course, Arshia drives 0.4km/hr faster than Sarah, but has engine trouble and stops for 30min. Arshia arrives at the finish line 15min after Sarah. How fast did each girl drive and how long did each girl take to finish the course?
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Question 519383: A paddleboat can move at a speed of 4 km/h in still water. the boat paddled 14 km downstream in the river in the same time it takes to go 7 km upstream. what is the speed of the river?
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Question 519427: How to & steps to solve:
Justin drove to his parents 175 miles away. On his way there his speed averaged 24 times faster then on his way back. He drove a total of 5 hours. What was his speed on the way there and on the way back?
I've solved it to:
175s+175(5+24)=5s(s+24)
But I'm stuck there. I don't know what to do next.
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Question 519332: Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 80 mph and train B is traveling at 100mph. Train A passes a station at 2:20 PM. If train B passes the same station at 2:32 PM, at what time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 519438: Two trucks travel from city A to city B. Truck A travels 10mphs faster then truck B. Truck A takes 4hrs and truck B travels 5hrs to make the same trip. How far apart are the 2 cities?
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Question 519370: A 555-mile, 5-hour plane trip was flown at two speeds. For the first part of the trip, the average speed was 105 mph. Then the tailwind picked up, and the remainder of the trip was flown at an average speed of 115 mph. For how long did the plane fly at each speed.
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Question 519492: How many square metres in a rectangle x metres long and 3 metres wide?

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Question 519495: two planes leave from point 1860 miles apart at the same time and travel toward each other (at slightly different altitudes, of course). If their rates are 220mph and 400mph, how soon will they meet?
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Question 519497: how do you work out how many square metres in a rectangle x metres long and 3 metres wide?
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Question 519487: Omar swam on each of three days. He swam three times as far on the second day as he did on the first day. He swam meters less on the third day than he did on the second day. If he swam meters the first day, write an expression for the total number of meters he swam in the three days.
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Question 519489: If the average speed of a car is 5 km/h what distance would be travelled in t hours?
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Question 519503: How do you solve this?.If the average speed of a car is 5 km/h what distance would be travelled in t hours?.
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Question 519544: A cheetah can run 20m in 5.83 sec. Find the average speed, distance or displacement.
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Question 519553: How long does it take for an airplane to travel 2450 km if it's average speed is 90km/hr?
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Question 519564: How many revolution will a car wheel of diameter 30in make as the car travels a distance of one mile.
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Question 519623: Sharon and Rae are riding bicycles on the same trail in the same direction, shareon crosses a bridge at 12:18 pm, Rae crosses the same bridge at 12:33pm, If sharon is going 8mph and Rae is going 10mph, when will Rae catch up with sharon?
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Question 519683: sally gradually accelerates from 0 mi/hr to 55 mi/hr in 7 seconds find the acceleration of her car
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Question 519730: if a train travels about 55 miles in a half an hour, what is thier average speed in miles per hour?
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