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Question 594933: A motorboat travels 114 miles in 2 hours going upstream. It travels 170 miles going downstream in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 595060: a car travels at 15 m/s for 3.0 hours. how far did the car travel?

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Question 595182: at 3:00pm, andy began walking directly south from point A at a rate of 4mi/hr. at the same time, bil started walking directly west from point B to point A, at a rate of 5mi/hr.
the distance between A and B is 9 miles. Assume that both of them stop walking when reaches point A
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Question 595184: if you go 620 miles in 8 2/3 hours how many hours does it take to drive 90 miles
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Question 595261: how long to catch up with ship travelling 1000 mph that is 4320 miles away if my speed is 10000 mph
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Question 595285: If your air speed is 90 MPH and you are going against a wind speed of 100 MPH, what is your ground speed?
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Question 595247: Working with your cousin, you can refinish a table in 6 hours. Working
alone, your cousin can complete the job in 9 hours. How long would
it take you to refinish the table?
alone?
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Question 595287: If your air speed is 90 MPH and you have a tail wind of 100 MPH, what is your ground speed?
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Question 595381: If an elk covers 100 meters in 5 seconds, at what speed is the elk running?
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Question 595413: i live 10 miles from work at a speed of 40 miles per hour what time should i leave home to be at work by 8:15

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Question 595461: Leanne walks at an average speed of 3 1/3 miles per hour. How far does she walk in 2 hour, 15 minutes

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Question 595510: A car passes a landmark on a highway traveling at a constant rate of kilometers per hour. An hour later, a second car passes the same landmark traveling in the same direction at kilometers per hour. How much time after the second car passes the landmark will it overtake the first car?
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Question 595771: Hannah can clear a lot in 5.5 hours. Damon can do the same job in 7.5 hours. How long will it take for them to clear the lot if they work together?

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Question 595774: If a car traveling at 60km per hour and it need to travel 180kms, then how many hours will the trip take?
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Question 595789: a twin-engine airplane has to travel 896 miles from city a to city b. It takes 4 hours to get there with the wind. against the wind it takes 7 hours. what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 595809: If I were traveling 80 mph, how far would I get in an hour?
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Question 595830: Between January 10, 1992, and November 16, 1992, some of the toys were carried approximately 3,220 km from the cargo-spill site to the coast of Alaska. Calculate the average distance traveled by these toys per day. (Hint: The year 1992 was a leap year.)

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Question 595888: A car is traveling at a constant velocity of 100 km/hr. What is the distance it will travel in one minute?
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Question 595868: A train travels half the distance from 30 km/hr and the remaining half with 60km/hr. What is it's average speed ?

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Question 595940: below is the question I am working on. WIll you please help me by doing a problem like it so I can get the hang of how to work. Thanks
Two cars leave Salt Lake City traveling in opposite directions. One car travels at a speed of 80 km/h and the other at 96 km/h. In how many hours will they be 528 km apart?

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Question 595956: Please help solve this problem: On my way to the cabin I drove at the rate of
55 mph. Coming home in a heavy rain, I only average 35 mph. It took me 2 hours less to get to the cabin than to get home. How many miles is it to the cabin?
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Question 596019: 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 596021: How many hours would it take a truck doing 55 mph to go 911 miles?
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Question 596009: A train 1000 metres long travels through a 3000 metre tunnel. Thirty seconds
pass from the time the last car has just completely entered the tunnel until the
time when the front of the engine emerges from the other end.
Determine the speed of the train, in kilometres per hour.
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Question 596046: Kent drives his Mazda 270 miles in the same time Dave drives his Honda 250 miles. If Kent averages 4 miles per hour faster than Dave, find their speeds.
Thank you, Trudy
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Question 596071: Please help!! During a race, a runner runs at a speed of 6 m/s. 2 seconds later, she is running at a speed of 10 m/s. What is the runner’s acceleration? Show your work.

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Question 596077: Please help solve this problem!!
As 390 g of hot milk cools in a mug, it transfers 30,000 J of heat to the environment. What is the temperature change of the milk? The specific heat of milk is 3.9 J/g·°C. Show your work.

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Question 596098: two travel from same point, one reaches point a in 7 minutes other in 9 minutes. when will they meet at the same point at the same time?
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Question 596070: As 390 g of hot milk cools in a mug, it transfers 30,000 J of heat to the environment. What is the temperature change of the milk? The specific heat of milk is 3.9 J/g·°C. Show your work.
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Question 596073: In need of help!!
As 390 g of hot milk cools in a mug, it transfers 30,000 J of heat to the environment. What is the temperature change of the milk? The specific heat of milk is 3.9 J/g·°C. Show your work.

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Question 596262: A 25 foot ladder is placed 7 feet from base of a wall. How high up the wall can the ladder reach?
a.square root of 24 feet
b.18 feet
c.24feet
d.square root of 674 feet
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Question 596261: A certain construction project will take 120 hours of work to complete. The construction team is composed of 4 memebers, each of whom works 6 hours per day.how many days will it take for the team to complete the project?
a.5
b.12
c.20
d.30

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Question 596258: juan is a car salesman who earns a 7.5% commission on his monthly sales.Juans sales total for this month is $12,000. How much commission does he earn?
a.$90
b.$900
c.$11,100
d.$12.900
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Question 596254: Two radio antenna towers stand perpendicular to level ground and 50m apart. Two support wires are strung from the base of one tower to the top of the other. If the towers are 20m and 30m high, how high above the ground is the point where the support wires intersect each other?
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Question 596340: Two planes left San Fransico at 3pm. One went east at a certain speed and the other went south at a speed that was 75 Kilometers per hour more than the plane heading east. The planes were 1800 kilometers apart at 5pm. How fast was each plane flying. (round to 2 decimal points)
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Question 596396: An express train travels 150 miles in the same time a freight train goes 100 miles. Find their average speeds if the freight train travels 20 mph less than the express train
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Question 596418: A car travels at an average speed of 56 miles per hour. How long does it take to travel 182 miles?
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Question 596410: Dropped a rock off a building it's speed doubles every second. It took 10 seconds to hit the ground. What fraction of distance would it travel in 8 seconds? Need formula and solution . Thanks
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Question 596489: if a guy runs 3 miles in 35 minutes. at this rate how many miles would he run in 84 minutes
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Question 596459: If a train from chicago to cleveland travels for 120 miles at an average speed of 30 miles per hour , and travels the remaining 180 miles at an average speed of 60 miles per hour, how long should the entire trip take?
a.3.3 hours
b.4.0 hours
c.7.0 hours
d.10.0 hours

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Question 596519: Ray and Sue leave the baseball stadium at the same time and head in the same direction. After 5 hours, Sue is 125 miles ahead of Ray. Sue's speed is 10 more than 2 times Ray's speed. Find the speeds of Ray and Sue.
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Question 596520: A bus traveled from the airport to the train station at a speed of 35 mph and returned at a speed of 40 mph. If the entire trip took 15 hours, find the distance from the airport to the train station?

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Question 596568: Please help me with this problem. It's been such a struggle.
The restaurant at the top of a very tall building in Seattle rotates 1.03 revolutions every hour. Chloe sits 19.9 meters from the center of the restaurant near a window.
1a)Through how many radians does Chloe turn in 118 minutes?
(exact angle; use pi)
1b)Now, report the answer accurate to 3 decimal places:
(approximate)
2a)How far does Chloe move in 118 minutes?
(exact distance; use pi)
2b)Now, report the answer accurate to 1 decimal place:
(approximate)
Thanks so much!
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