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Question 583659: Get a jet leave an airport traveling at a steady rate of 600 km/h another jet leave for airport at three fourths of an hour later traveling at 800 km/h in the same direction how long will it take for the second Jets overtake the first
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Question 583697: Aaron and Cavan are piloting two planes. Aaron’s plane has a speed that is 75 miles per hour faster than Cavan’s plane. They each fly the same distance, but Aaron flies for 3 hours while Cavan flies for 3 hours and 36 minutes. How far do they each fly? please explain.
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Question 583739: if i am going 75mph and going 1000 feet, how many seconds would i travel 1000 feet going 75mph
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Question 583736: An airplane with a speed of 160 knots is headed east while a 24-knot wind is blowing from 240. Find the course and round to the nearest degree.
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Question 583791: You walk at a constant rate of 1.75 miles per hour. If you walked for a 1/2 hours, how far did you walk?
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Question 583790: Jenna ran 2 miles in 12 minutes. How fast was jenna running in miles per hours?
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Question 583603: a cyclist rode the first 36-mile portion of his workout at a constant speed.for the 30-mile cooldown portion of his workout, he reduced his speed by 2 miles per hour. Each portion of the workout took the same time. Find the cyclist's speed during the first portion and find his speed during the cooldown portion.
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Question 583944: if you were walking at a rate of 2 miles per hour how many hours would it take you to go 1/2 a mile.

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Question 583943: I would like help on this problem:Flying to Kampala with a tailwind a plane avaraged 158km/h. Onthe return trip the plane only avaraged 112km/h. Find the speed of the wind and the speed of the plane still in the air.

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Question 583811: My truck gets 20 miles per gallon. Gas is $3.70 per gallon. Tell me how much gas will cost for the trip when the trip is 270 miles
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Question 584026: A family plans to drive 2000 miles in 33 hours. The father will drive half of the distance, and the mother and son will share equally the remaining distance.
In general, the father drives the fastest, the mother drives 10 mile per hour slower than the father, and the son's rate is halfway between the mother's and father's rates.
find the rates for each of the drivers.
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Question 584140: If i travel 106 miles at 7 miles an hour, what time will I arrive, and how do I solve this?
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Question 584142: If i travel 106 miles at 7mph, what time will I arrive? And how do i solve this ?
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Question 584117: If you're making a trip that takes 8 1/3 hr and you've been traveling for 5 3/4 hr, how much longer do you need to travel?
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Question 584176: IF I AM TRAVELING 2296 MILES IN A 2010 CHARGER THAT GET 31MPG. ABOUT HOW MUCH WOULD I SPEND ON GAS

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Question 584176: IF I AM TRAVELING 2296 MILES IN A 2010 CHARGER THAT GET 31MPG. ABOUT HOW MUCH WOULD I SPEND ON GAS

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Question 584190: if a man walks 6 km in 45 minutes what is his average speed in kmph?
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Question 584260: David competes in a triathlon and has set a new goal of finishing in 17 hours and 15 minutes. The race consists of a 3.8km swin, a 180km bike ride, and a 42.2km run. David rides a bike 4.5 times as fast as he swims and runs 1.6 times as fast as he bikes. If David keeps a steady pace in each event, how fast does he have to swim to reach his goal?
I have this set up as:
3.8km/x+180km/4.5x+42.2km/4.5x(1.6)=17hours 15 min.
I do not know where to go from here????
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Question 584357: A car is driving at 26 mph, a truck is moving at 42 mph and a van is traveling at 26 mph. How fast is the train going?
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Question 584391: if you travel 45 miles per hour for 6 hours, how many miles do you travel? Please show how you get the answer.
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Question 584383: An athletes average speed on her bike is 14mph faster than her average speed running. She can bike 31.5 miles in the same time that it takes her to run 10.5 miles. Find her average speed running and her average speed biking.
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Question 558260:
If a fire engine is traveling down the interstate driving 55 mph and reaches the reported vehicle fire 13 minutes, approximately how far did the engine travel? Use the following formula: Rate X Time = Distance

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Question 584488: A round-trip by bus takes 12 hours. If the rate going was 54 kph and the rate returning was 90 kph, how far was the round-trip?
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Question 584651: a boat went 15 miles downstream in 1 hour and then returned to its dock in 5/3 hours. if the current of the stream was constant, find the speed of the boat and speed of the current
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Question 584673: A boat travels 60 miles upstream in 5 hours. The boat travels the same distance downstream in 3 hours. Find the rate of the boat still water and rate of the current?

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Question 584802: Maura ran 3/5 of the course and walked the rest. How much of the course did she walk?

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Question 584819: How much gas would it take to go 144 miles in a van
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Question 584824: How much gas would it take to go 1100 miles in a Chevy aveo
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Question 584852: Two bees leave two locations 180 miles apart. The bees fly at the rate of 4 yards and 5 yards per second respectively. How long will it take the two bees to meet?
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Question 584863: IF YOUR 140 FOOT DIAMETER SECONDARY CLARIFIER RAKE'S SPEED IS 1.6 REVOLUTIONS PER HOUR...HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE THE RAKE ARM TO COMPLETE 1 REVOLUTION?
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Question 584874: A travels from town M to town N while B travels from town N to town M. They start out at the same time, and B travels three times as fast as A. If they meet each other six hours later, when will they arrive at their respective destination?
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Question 584916: A plane takes off traveling east at 175mph. A jet takes off from the same airport, also traveling east, 2 hours later at 315 mph. When will the jet overtake the airplane?
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Question 584926: 3. Is the time it takes to drive to the ski resort a function of the speed you drive? Explain.
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Question 584927: While driving at 90km/hr, how far in meters can you travel in 1.0 seconds?
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Question 584941: Two small planes start from a common point A at the same time. One flies east at the rate of 300 km/hr the other south at 400 km/hr. After 2 hrs, how fast is the distance between them changing ?
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Question 584733: number of grams of sugar in a cookie is 40 more than the number of grams to sugar in a brownie. this is represented by c=b+40 the number of grams of sugar in 8 brownies is 50 fewer than the number of grams of sugar in 50 cookies.
what is a equation that represents the situation?
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Question 584965: the moving van traveled 455 miles in 8 hours and 45 minutes. what was the average speed
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Question 585033: Two rabbits start at a point P on a circular track and move in opposite directions. One travels at a speed of 11 ft/sec and the other at a speed of 8 ft/sec. If they start at the same time and stop when they meet again at point P, then the number of times they meet excluding the start and finish is
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Question 585000: Two cars leave towns 800 kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One car's rate is 12 kilometers per hour more that the other's. If they meet in 5 hours, what is the rate of the faster car?
Do not do any rounding.
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Question 584998: Rusty has a boat goes 12 mi. an hour. Find the current speed of the river if he can go 3 mi. upstream in the same time as he goes 5 mi. downstream.
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Question 585054: Two cars are racing around a 3 mile track. The first car is going 122 miles per hour. The second car is going 124 miles per hour. How long will it take for the fast car to lap the slower car?
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Question 585074: Traveling from point A to point B. I arrived two hours earlier than I left point A. How and why?
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Question 584996: Ann can jog to work in 2/3 of an hour. When she rides her bike, it takes her 1/4 of an hour. If she rides 11 miles per hour faster than she jogs, how far away is her work?
Do not do any rounding.
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Question 584858: Two bike riders, Jeff and Nancy, are 25 miles apart, riding toward each other at 10 miles per hour and 15 miles per hour respectively. A fly starts from Jeff and flies to Nancy and then back to Jeff and so on. The fly continues back and forth at a rate of 40 miles per hour until the bike riders "collide" and crush the fly. How far has the fly traveled?

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