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Question 560635: A jogger jogs around a circular track with a diameter of 300 meters in 13 minutes. What was the jogger’s average speed in meters/second?
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Question 560643: A boat with a speed of 7km/hr.How long will it take to go 35km?
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Question 560661: I traveled 3 miles in 25 minutes, how fast was I going?
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Question 560697: Five friends drove at an average rate of 50 miles per hour to a weekend retreat. On the way home they took the same route but averaged 70 miles per hour. What was the distance between home and the retreat if the round trip took 10 hours?
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Question 560698: A hiker walks 2 miles in 45 minutes whats the average speed?

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Question 560717: If I drove for 2 hours and 30 mins how much gas would that take?
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Question 560911: If you walked 440 yards in 5 minutes what is the speed in mph? How should I go about solving this question. Thank you for your help.

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Question 560968: During the first part of a trip a canoeist travels 41 miles at a certain speed. the canoeist travels 8 miles on the second part of the trip at 5 mph slower. the total time for the trip is 3 hours. what was the speed on each part of the trip?
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Question 561044: `During the first part of a trip a canoeist travels 56 miles at a certain speed. the canoeist travels 9 miles on the second part of the trip at 5 mph slower. the total time for the trip is 5 hours. what was the speed on each part of the trip?''.

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Question 561284: How far can a person drive out into the country at the average of 40 mph and returen over the same road at the average of 30 mph if the total travel time (out and back) is 7 hours?
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Question 561328: if you ride a bike at 3 mph for 4 hours, how far will you travel?
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Question 561492: A mother wants to invest $9000 for her children's education. She invests a portion of the money in a bank certificate of deposit(CD account)which earns 4% and the remainder in a savings bond that earns 7%. If the total interest after one year is $540, how much money was in each rate?
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Question 561463: Malik drove his car for 45 miles at an average speed of r miles per hour. On the return trip, traffic has increased and Maliks average speed is 3/4 r. The round trip took a total of 1 Hour and 45 minutes. Find the average speed for each portion of the trip.
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Question 561639: An airplane flies 440 miles with the wind and 340 against the wind in the same length of time. If the speed of the wind is 20, what is the speed of the airplane in still air?
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Question 561637: Please work it out.
a car travels 108 miles on 9 liters of gas. How many miles will it travel on 21 liters?
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Question 561662: A jet airplne leaves an airport traveling at a steady rate of 600km/h. Another jet leaves the same airport 3/4 h later traveling 800km/h in the same direction. How long will the second jet take to overtake the first?
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Question 561682: This is a real world math problem:
Is it possible to accelerate from 45 mph to 71 mph in 20 seconds and then safely return to 50 mph in .8 miles? The car is a 2011 Kia Forte Koup EX 2dr FWD. Engine: 2.0L 1-4 Engine. Power: 156@6,200 rpm. Automatic transmission. 0-60 in 7.6 seconds. According to a test drive I saw on you tube it went from 45 to 71 in 20 seconds.
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Question 561626: There's a train going 165 mph and you are going 54 miles per hour, you intersect in 10 miles but then it starts to rain and slows the train by 5 miles. Then the wind picks up and you go 1 mile slower... how much should you speed up to miss the train?
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Question 561789: Lakeview is 85 miles from springfeild. Jerry must go to the law library in springfeild to get a document for the law firm for which he works. find how long it takes him to drive round trip if he averages 41mph.
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Question 562010: A teenager rollerblades for 10 km in 1 hour, 23 minutes and 20 seconds. At what average speed does he travel?
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Question 562018: A train travels from city A to city B and then to city C. The distance from A to B is 51 miles and the distance from B to C is 75 miles. the average velocity from A to B was 35mph and the average velocity from B to C was 50mph. What was the average velocity from A to C in miles per hour?
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Question 562106: A plane traveled 1012 miles to go to jacksonville and back. The trip there was with wind. It took 11 hours.The trip back took 22 hours. What is the speed of the plane in still air? What is the speed of the wind?
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I tried drawing a table, but it has been a wile since I have solved any problems. The answer I got was a repeating decimal, so I doubt very much its likelihood of being correct.
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Question 562205: maria can run laps around the school in the time it takes Susan to run 3 times around the track. how many laps will maria have run when Susan has run 12 laps
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Question 562218: drives 3hrs @ a certain rate of speed, then increases by 5mph & drives 2 more hrs. if org speed was 30mph how far did he drive?
I tried 3*30=90 90*5=450 he 450-90=360miles
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Question 562223: it takes a botat 2 hours to travel 20 miles down a river and 3 hours to return upstream to its starting point. what is the rate of the current in the river
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Question 562268: if you walk 2 meters per second how many seconds would it be to walk 200 meters
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Question 562317: Arthur weighs 34lbs more than Lily. Their combined weight is 180lbs less than four times Lily's weight. How much does Lily weigh?
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Question 562297: the speed of a freight train is 14 mph slower than that of passanger train.if the passenger train travels 400 miles in the time it take the freight train to travel 70 fewer miles ,what is the speed of the passenger train
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Question 562382: The height of an object thrown upward with an initial velocity of 32 feet per second is given by the formula h=-16t^2+32t, where t is the time in seconds. How long will it take the object to reach a height of 16 feet?
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Question 562404: An airplane flying directly north at a constant
rate, travels 550 km in 3.5 hours. What is the velocity of the airplane?

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Question 562442: A force of 55 Newtons is acting on a body in a north direction. A second force of 30 Newtons is applied to the body in a east direction. What is the net force and direction of action?
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Question 562316: The Giants left San Francisco heading northeast at 210km/hr. At the same time,The Patriots left Boston headed southwest traveling at 180km/hr. After 8 hours both teams landed at the airport in Indianapolis at the same time, How far apart are Boston and San Francisco?
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Question 562522: How long would it take for a ball dropped from the top of 400 foot building to hit the ground? Round your answer to two decimal places.
Use Gravity formula
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Question 562528: The Giants left San Francisco heading north east at 180 km/hr. At the same time, the Patriots left Boston and headed southwest traveling at 150 km/hr. After 8 hrs both planes landed in indianapolis at the same time, how far apart are boston and San Francisco?
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Question 562516: Jack and Edson decide they will go jogging from West hills athletic club. THey arrive at west hills and start jogging at different time so, as the clock strikes noon, Jack is 250 yards from the starting point and Edson is 400 yards from the start. Jack jogs at the constant pace of 3 yards/sec. Edson jogs at the constant pace of 2.5 yards/sec. How long will it take Jack to catch up to Edson?
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Question 562708: Daily rate is $39 + 0.20 per mile, Rent car for 1 day, the bill is $95 before taxes. How many miles did you drive.
Am I setting this equation up right? Here is what I have.
39+ 0.20 (1) = 95 If not how??
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Question 562732: PLEASE help me with this; I've been doing homework for hours and I don't know how to do this problem.
"After t seconds, the height (t) of a bottle rocket launched from the ground into the air is given by the function h(t) = -16t² + 80t. Find how long it takes the rocket to teach a height of 96 feet."
THANK YOU!
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Question 562726: train A traveled 20 mi h faster than train B. train A takes 3 hoursto go between two cities, and train B takes 4 hours to travel the same distance. how fast does each train travel? please help me!!!! i've tried everything it says in the book!!!
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Question 562747: Academic Calculus- Pythagorean Theorem and Related Rates Word Problem:
A plane takes off from airport A and flies east at 480 mph. At the moment of takeoff, a second plane, approaching A from the north at 320 mph, is still 240 miles from A. Fifteen minutes later is the distance between the planes increasing or decreasing, and how fast?
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Question 562764: The giants left san francisco heading northeast at 210 km/hr. at the same time the patriots left boston and headed southwest traveling at 180km/hr. after 8 hours both teams landed at the airport in indianapolis at the same time, how far apart are boston and san francisco?
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Question 562875: A car travels 1500 miles at a certian speed. If the speed had been 10 mph faster, the trip could have been made in 5 hours less time. Find the speed
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Question 563098: Traveling at 20 mph in a passenger vehicle...at a normal acceleration rate, how many feet would I travel before reaching a speed of 31 mph?
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Question 563132: one car travels 20 km/hr faster then another while one of them travels 240 km the other travels 180 km find the speed of the fast car
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