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Question 581521: How long will it take to travel 2miles going 7mph

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Question 581622: two fihing boat leave the harbor at the same time and having the same float plan.one average 17 knots(nautical miles per hr) while the other average 14.5 knots. how long will it yake for the boats to be 10 nautical miles apart
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Question 581527: The train from C to D breaks down after 1 hour. The train has stopped because of 1/2 hour repairs, then, it continues on at 3/4 of its beginning rate, arriving at B 2 hours late. If the train had covered 75 miles more before the break down, it could be only1 hour late. What is the beginning rate of the train? Explain how you would get the answer.
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Question 581626: The speed of a stream is 5 mph. If a boat travels 94 miles downstream in the same time it takes to travel 47 miles upstream what is the speed of the boat in still water?
Please explain step by step.
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Question 581679: If a car gets 28 mpg, how many gallons does it need of gas to go 350 miles?
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Question 581679: If a car gets 28 mpg, how many gallons does it need of gas to go 350 miles?
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Question 581690: Two trains each make a journey of 330km. One of the trains travels 5km/h faster than the other and takes 30 minutes less time. Find the speeds of the trains.
Solve by forming and solving a suitable quadratic equation.
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Question 581744: Peter cycles 20 miles in 2 1/2 hours.
What is his average speed in miles per hour?
do you convert 2 1/2 hours in a fraction and divide 20/2 = 10 x 5 = 50 miles or is it 20/5=4 then 4x 10?

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Question 581886: a family traveled 300 miles in 6 hours. what is the rate in miles per hour

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Question 581893: what is the actual length of x
9in, 2in, 6in, 4in, and x
it is two rectangles join together
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Question 581695: I'm having trouble understanding the question the book is asking. Please read the following passage and questions. The professor does not lecture and the text isn't helping - Thank you
A car and a truck are at a gas station. At 2:00 the truck starts traveling along the highway at a constant speed of 54mph. A quarter of an hour later, at 2:15, the car starts traveling along the same highway with a constant speed of 60mph. At what time will the car catch up with the truck?
Solve this problem algebraically using the following steps.
A) Let Δt be the number of hours the car travels between leaving the gas station and catching up with the truck. Is Δt the answer? If not, how can you get the answer once you found Δt?
I think Δt would be the answer as Δt equals the time between the car and truck...correct?
B) Write an expression for the car's distance from the gas station Δt hours after the car starts. Explain your reasoning.
C) Write an expression for the truck's distance from the gas station Δt hours after the car starts. Explain your reasoning.
D) Write your equation and tell why you set the two sides equal.
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Question 581710: The Smiths are moving across the state. Mr. Smith leaves 3.5 hours before Mrs. Smith. If he averages 40 mph and she averages 60 mph, how long will Mrs. Smith have to drive before she overtakes Mr. Smith?
I need a Let statement, an equation and a conclusion and I have to show all my work.
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Question 581952: How fast is a car going if it goes a mile in 27 seconds
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Question 581972: Two women live on the same street, but live 1.5 miles apart. Each morning both women begin running at the same time in the same direction. Because of where she lives, Jane is always 1.5 miles ahead of Sue when they start running. Jane runs at a rate of 6 mph and Sue runs at a rate of 8 mph. How far from SUE'S house are they when Sue catches up? Be sure to label your answer. Round to the nearest whole number if needed.

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Question 582008: This is a Pre-Calculus problem involving vectors.
A sailboat is headed east at 18 mph relative to the water. A current is moving the water south at 3 mph.
a. What is the angle of the path of the sailboat?
b. What is the sailboat's speed with respect to the ocean floor?
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Question 582126: the car traveled 350 miles on 15 gallons of gas. the car averaged how many miles per gallon
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Question 581717: Integrate with respect to x : \int_{0}^{1}4xdx
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Question 582265: If a train 1 kilometer long is passing through a tunnel 7 kilometers long at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour how long will it take the train to pass completely through the tunnel?
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Question 582260: Mr. Stewart rode a distance of 12 miles into the country on a bicycle and returned on foot. His rate on the bicycle was 4 times his rate on foot. The entire trip took 5 hours. How long did he travel?
I am not sure how to set up this problem...
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Question 582245: On a river, a kayaker travels 2 miles upstream and 2 miles downstream in a total of 5 hours. In still water, the kayaker can travel at an average speed of 2 mph. Based on this information, what is the average speed of the current of this river?
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Question 582213: After about 8 hours of a steady wind, the height (y) of waves in the ocean is linearly related to the duration of time (x) the wind has been blowing. During a storm with 40-knot winds, the wave height after 8 hours was found to be 22 feet, and after 23 hours it was 41 feet.
(a) Write a linear equation that relates the height to time.
(b) How long will the wind have been blowing for the waves to be 60 feet heigh?
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Question 582282: You drive to your Nana’s at a speed of 20 km/h and then come home at a speed to 30 km/h. What is the average speed for the whole trip?
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Question 582597: On a straight inclined track, a ball rolling uphill takes 1.3 seconds to slow down from a velocity of 135 cm/s to a velocity of 65 cm/s. On the same track, how much time would it take a rolling ball with velocity 85 cm/s to reach a velocity of 0? Explain your reasoning. Do not use algebra.
I know that it took 1.3 sec to decrease it's velocity from 135 cm/s to 65 cm/s by 70 cm/s. If it took 1.3 sec for that, would the velocity decrease from 85 cm/s to 0 cm/s at about 2.5 sec, which I believe I'm incorrect on.
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Question 582674: If a airplane was travling 1260 miles for 1 hour and 40 minutes what will be the speed?
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Question 582689: 1/4 of an inch is equivalent to 8 feet am model house is 3 inches tall how tall must the actual house be
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Question 582706: what is 756 rounded to the nearest tenth?
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Question 582554: It takes Sally three minutes to go one mile with the wind at her back. Then it takes her four minutes on the ride back with the wind against her. What is the rate of the speed of the wind? Please help me. I tried this and got the answer of one over twentyfour.
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Question 582322: If it takes 2hrs and 30mins to encode 300pages. How many minutes will it take to encode 1 page?
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Question 583022: Jim rides his bike for 20 minutes and travels 3 miles. Find his speed
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Question 583025: HOw far will a speed boat going 64 miles per hour travel in 2 1/2 hours?
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Question 583066: a child throws a ball straight up with a velocity of 10 m/s. how long will the ball take to reach it's highest point

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Question 583064: a child throws a ball straight up with a velocity of 10 m/s. what is the ball's velocity at its highest point
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Question 583087: Rene is going to the lake to visit some friends. If the lake is 60 miles away, and Rene is driving at 40 miles per hour the entire time, how long will it take her to get to the lake?

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Question 583070: if an object is pulled upwards with a force of 100 n and downwards with a force of 80 n, what is the magnitude of the net force on the object

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Question 583059: a car accelerates from 0 m/s to 60 m/s in 8seconds. what is the car's acceleration

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Question 583340: how much poop does becky joo eat in 5 days?

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Question 583403: A train leaves Chicago heading for New Orleans traveling at a constant 50 mph. Assume a perfectly straight track and the distance to New Orleans to be exactly 1000 miles away. At the exact time the train leaves, an eagle leaves New Orleans headed for Chicago at a constant 75 mph and following the same tracks the train is on. When the eagle meets the train, he immediately reverses direction and heads back to New Orleans, whereupon when arriving at New Orleans he immediately turns back around and flies back to the train again. Again, when meeting the train, he turns back again to New Orleans and keeps repeating this until they both reach New Orleans. Assuming there is no delay in reversing direction for the bird (upon reaching the train, he immediately turns and is headed back at exactly 75 mph), how far will the bird have flown by the time the train reaches New Orleans? Show your work.
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Question 583399: It takes three hours to drive to a city. If you had driven 10 mph slower it would have taken 36 minutes longer. How far did you drive? "I am a little confused because I thought I would need more information to solve a problem like this one. I thought at first to do this: 3 hours 3 hours 36 minutes, then have something else on the bottom of one to compare them to, but there is nothing, except I arrived at the city??????????"
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Question 583416: a cargo plane flies 8500 km to deliver supplies to a remote jungle camp. after dropping off the supplies the plane returns home. the speed is 150km/h faster on the return trip, cutting the flight time by two hours. how long was the trip to the jungle
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Question 583551: 1.Find the time taken to travel 278km at an average speed of 65km/h
2. Find the time taken to travel 365miles at ana average speed of 50mph

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Question 583594: a train can travel 80 miles in the same time it takes a car to travel 30 miles. if the train is traveling at a rate of 75 miles per hour faster than the car, how fast is each traveling?
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Question 583662: An airplane flying against the wind travels 300 miles in the same time that it can travel 330 miles with the wind. If the wind speed is 10 mph, what is the speed of the airplane in still air?
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Question 583679: If it takes you 45 seconds to run one block, how fast are you running in miles per hour?
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