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Question 566328: Two fishing boats depart a harbor at the same time, traveling east, the other south. The eastbound boat travels at a speed 3mph faster than the southbound boat. After two hours the boats are 30 miles apart. Find the speed of the southbound boat.
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Question 566529: The speed of a moving sidewalk at an airport is 3 ft/sec. A person can walk 54 ft forward on the moving sidewalk in the same time it takes to walk 11 ft on a nonmoving sidewalk in the opposite direction. At what rate would a person walk on a nonmoving sidewalk?
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Question 566555: Luis walked one - eighth of the distance to school.What part of the distance to school does he still need to walk?
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Question 566577: Bryce ran a 4 mile race at a constant speed of 10 mph. Conner left at the same time and started out fast for the first mile. During this time, his speed did not vary. At the end of the first mile he blew up and had to go 6 mph slower the last 3 miles. Both crossed the finish line at the same time. How fast did Conner run the first mile? Show all of your work.
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Question 566594: Word Problem:
Two cyclists, 50 miles aprt, are racing towards each other from opposite directions at constant speeds of 18mph and 22mph. A fly buzzes back and forth between the noses of the cyclists at 100mph until it is smashed when the cyclists collide. How far did the fly travel before it died?
* i dont know how to slove this problem. I know how to solve it if they collide in the middle, but in this case, they dont. Can you please help? Thank you.
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Question 566607: A family has two cars. The first car has a fuel efficiency of miles per gallon of gas and the second has a fuel efficiency of miles per gallon of gas. During one particular week, the two cars went a combined total of miles, for a total gas consumption of gallons. How many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week?
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Question 566604: A vessel travelling on a compass course of 40 degrees at a speed of 28km/hr is being affected by a 3km/hr current from the east. What is the vessels resultant velocity? please help!
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Question 566623: calculate the distance travelled by a jet in 6 h at 8oo km/h
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Question 566765: how fast do you have to go to get somewhere that is 31 milesaway in 30 minutes
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Question 566810: A driver averaged 30 mph on a 150-mile trip and then returned over the same 150 miles at the rate of 50 mph. He figured that his average speed was 40 mph for the entire trip.
A. What was his total distance traveled?
B. What was his total time spent for the trip?
c. What was his average speed for the trip?
D. Explain the error in the driver reasoning?
please show work if possible

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Question 566818: if you travel 1.5 miles at 2min 24sec whats u r miles per hour...
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Question 566867: how many hours to drive 530 miles at 65 miles per hour?
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Question 566888: travelling at 110km/h how long would it take to the nearest minute if you travelled 90km
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Question 566835: The clarke family went sailing on a lake. Their boat averaged 6 kilometers per hour. The rourke family took their outboard runabout for a trip on the lake for the same amount of time. Their boat averaged 14 kilometers per hour. The rourke family traveled 20 kilometers farther thanthe clarke family. How many hours did each family spend on the their boat trip?
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Question 567237: A local theatre sold 500 seats for an upcoming play. Ticket prices for adults are $54.00 and ticket prices for children are $23.00. If the theatre made $22,102.00 for the show, how many adult and children attended?
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Question 567236: Tom and Gary are leaving the same town for a meeting in different cities. However, they have not quite finished discussing a business plan. Tom must leave 1 hours earlier than Gary to make his meeting. Tom heads east on a train at 45 miles per hour. Gary heads west on a train at 70 miles per hour. How long can they talk on their phones if the phones have a range of 280.75 miles?
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Question 567244: A family has a coin jar that is now full. The children count the change and calculate the total value to be $33.16. Let Q represent the number of quarters and use the information below to find the number of each coin.
There are:
131 more dimes than quarters
7 times as many nickels as quarters
5 more than 17 times as many pennies as quarters

How many quarters, nickles, dimes, and pennies are there?
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Question 567271: A car starts with the speed 60 km/hr from prayad at 3 p.m. After 1 hour a second car starts with the speed 80 km/hr on the same track to cross to the first car. After how many kms the second car wil meet the first?
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Question 567285: A boat travels 500 miles downstream and back. The trip downstream took 25 hours. The trip back upstream took 50 hours. What is the speed of the boat? What is the speed of the current in the river?
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Question 567409: a river flows at an average speed of 5km/hr. if you and a friend decide to canoe the river a distance of 16kilometers,how many hours and minutes will it take?
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Question 567438: If I go 2miles in 45 seconds, how many mph is that?
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Question 567370: A train travels at a speed of 88 mi/hr.
A.) How many hours does it take to travel 1100 feet?
B.) How many yards can it travel in thirty minutes?
Thank you!
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Question 567471: Two trains are traveling on parallel tracks are going towards eachother froma distance of 150km. One is moving at 60kmperhour, the other at 110kmperhour.
After how many hours with the trains pass eachother?
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Question 567478: A woman jogs for 2 km at 8 km/h and then walks for 2 km at 6 km/h. What is the average speed for the entire trip
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Question 567478: A woman jogs for 2 km at 8 km/h and then walks for 2 km at 6 km/h. What is the average speed for the entire trip
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Question 567474: The Hopewells are moving across the country. Mr. Hopewell leaves 3.5 hours before Mrs. Hopewell. If he averages 40 mph and she averages 50 mph, how long wil it take Mrs. Hopewell to overtake Mr. Hopewell?
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Question 567486: a train travels 650 km in 12 hours. what is the average and speed in. a) km/hr b) m/s with computation,
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Question 567323: Distance Traveled At noon a bicyclist is 50 miles from home, riding toward home at 10 miles per hour.(a) Make a table that shows the bicyclist’s distance D from home after 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 hours. (b) Write a formula that calculates the distance D from home after x hours.(c) Use your formula to determine D when hours. Does your answer agree with the value
shown in your table? (d) For what times was the bicyclist at least 20 miles
from home? Assume that 0 # x #

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Question 567238: Two skiers are 105 kilometers apart and head towards each other. They meet in 3.5 hours. If the second skier is 8 kilometers per hour faster the the other, find the speed of each skier?
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Question 567226: How far can Phelps swim upstream at 8 km/hr and still return downstream at 12 km/hr in a total time of 4 hours?
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Question 567516: a kayaker can paddle 12 mi in 2 h moving with the river current. paddling at the same pace, the trip back against the current takes 4 h. assume that the river current is constant. find what the kayaker's speed would be in still water.
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Question 567434: A is moving 17 feet per second slower than B. How long will it take B to catch A if B starts out 672 feet behind A? How far will A have traveled before B catches up?
thanks

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Question 567590: train 1 is travelling from a - b at a speed of 105 miles per hour. time duration = 30 minutes
Train 2 is travelling from b - a at 85 miles per second . What is the current distance of both trains?
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Question 567772: In track practice I run on a treadmill everyday and a question has accurred to me. If I run on a treadmill for one minute at speed 10, how many laps would that be on a track? (4 laps around my track is a mile) What would the distance be?
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Question 567797: If i walk 1.2 miles in 35 min. what is my MPH?
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Question 567816: the train covers 90km in uniform speed.if speed is raised 15km/hr then train covers distance in half hour less.find the original speed.
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Question 567855: A plane leaves Chicago headed for Los Angeles at 530 mph. One hour later, a second plane leaves Los Angeles headed for Chicago at 670 mph. If the air route from Chicago to Los Angeles is 1800 miles, how long will it take (after the first plane takes off) for the first plane to pass the second plane? (Round your answer to two decimal places.
I tried adding the two rates together 670+530 getting 1200mph is the speed at which they are heading towards each other than i did d=rt
1800=1200t then divided 1800 by 1200 and got 1.5 but i am told that is incorrect......
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Question 567880: Two ships leave the same port at the same time along paths that make an angle of 115o with each other. If one ship travels at 22 knots (nautical miles per hour) and the other at 18 knots, how many nautical miles apart are the ships after two hours?
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Question 567940: MArc counts his stamps by 12, by 16, and by 20; at each time 8 remain. by conting them by 13 nothing remains. how many stamps does marc have?
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Question 568050: A car travels at an average speed of 56 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in5 hours and 45 minutes?
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Question 568185: flying with the wind, a jet can travel the 4200 km distaance between san francisco and new work in 6 hour. the return trip against the wind takes 7 hours. find the rate of the jet in still air and the rate of the wind
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