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Question 596604: the speed of joe's boat in still water is 5miles per hour. if joe can go upstream 36 miles and return downstream in 40 hours, what is the speed of the current?
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Question 596621: two drivers start driving toward each other in cities that are 540 miles apart. they pass each other when the slower driver has traveled 240 miles. if the faster driver is traveling 15 miles per hour faster than the slower driver, find out how fast each driver is going.
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Question 596659: A car travels 240 miles in 5 hours. What is the average speed ?
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Question 596745: John started walking East at 10:00 AM at a rate of 2 km/hr. James stated walking South at 10:30 AM at a rate of 4km/hr. What time is it when they are 5 km apart?
D (x) = Rate x time

Tried formula below, but stuck on time part????
a2 + b2 = c2 so 4x2 + 2x2 = 25
x= 1.25

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Question 596782: A car travels 3.5 miles per minute how many kilometers does it travel per hour?

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Question 596772: An aircraft flew 7 hours with the wind. The return trip took 8 hours against the wind. If the speed of the plane in still air is 336 miles per hour more than the speed of the wind, fond the wind speed and the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 596829: If you travel at 40 miles an hour how long would it take you to travel 190 miles
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Question 596883: Im teavelling 120 km an hour there is 82 km to go, how long will it take me to get there?
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Question 596893: If I'm going 80 mph how long will it take me to go 80 miles?
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Question 596926: a plane averaged 1000 km/h on the first half of the round trip, but the heavy winds slowed its speed on the return trip to 600 km/h. if the entire trip took six hours, find the distance
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Question 596988: how much time is required for a bicycle to travel a distance of 100 m at an average speed of 2 m/s ?
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Question 597024: two cars are 120 mi apart. if they drive toward each other and meet in 2 hours at 50 mi from the starting point of the slower car, what is the speed of the faster car?
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Question 597019: a car travels 395 miles in the same time that a motorcycle travels 345 miles. If the car's speed is 10 miles per hour more than the motorcycle's, find the speed of the car and the speed of the motorcycle.
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Question 597190: a car travels 49 miles in an hour forty five minutes what is its average speed
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Question 597203: . Palmer’s average running speed is 3 kilometers per hour faster than his walking speed. If Palmer can run around a 30-kilometer course in 2 h, how many hours would it take for Palmer to walk the same course?
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Question 597268: A car travels west at 57 km per hour how far will it travel in 7 hr
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Question 597320: Raja lives in Ft Pierce and his cousin lives in Clearwater. The distance btw the two is 170miles. The cousin decides to meet for a visit some place btw their homes.
Raja leaves Ft. Pierce at 10am traveling an avg speed of 50mph. His cousin leaves Clearwater at 11am traveling an avg of 30mph. At what distance, in miles from Ft Pierce will the two cousins meet?

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Question 597326: a car travels 528 miles on 16 gallons of gas. at the same rate how many gallon of gas are need to travel 165 miles.

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Question 597328: An airplane traveling with the wind flies 450 miles in 2 hours. On the return trip, the plane takes 3 hours to travel the same distance. Find the speed of the airplane if the wind is still.
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Question 597359: a train is traveling at 95 miles per hour. how far can it go in 4.5 hour
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Question 597367: A container ship left Hawaii and travelled north at an average speed of 15 km/h. A cruise ship 1.9 hours later and traveled in the opposite direction with an average speed of 12.6 km/h. Find the number of hoours the cruise ship needs to travel before the vessels are 125.1 km apart.
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Question 597395: A train traveled 300 miles. How long did the trip take if the train was traveling at a rate of:
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Question 597471: A cruise ship made a trip of 140 mi in 8 h. The ship traveled the first 60 mi at a constant rate before increasing its speed by 5 mph. Then it traveled another 80 mi at the increased speed. Find the rate of the cruise ship for the first 60 mi.
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Question 597545: How long will it take for a car to travel a distance of 450km if its speed is 79km/h?
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Question 597434: A man walks 31 miles, partly at the rate of 2 miles per hour and the rest at the rate of 5 miles per hour. If he had walked at the rate of 5 miles per hour for the same time as he actually walked at the rate of 2 miles per hour, and vice versa, he would have covered 15 miles more than he did. How long did it take him to walk the 31 miles?
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Question 597561: you drive 52 miles in an hour how long will it take you to go 416 miles
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Question 597602: How much time would it take to travel 1000 kilometres on road on a vehicle or a bike ? Please reply me as soon as possible
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Question 597602: How much time would it take to travel 1000 kilometres on road on a vehicle or a bike ? Please reply me as soon as possible
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Question 598103: Two airplanes leave simultaneously from an airport. One flies due south; the other flies due east at a rate 20 mph faster than the first airplane. After 1.5 hours, radar indicates that the airplanes are 450 miles apart. What is the ground speed of each airplane?
Please help - I am so lousy at word problems and stuggle with how to set up and solve. My instructor requires that we show all the work. So please help me with this homework problem step by step as I need to really understand how to pull out necessary information, then set up the equation to be solved. You are a lifesaver... Thank you so much!!!

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Question 598124: a tortoise and a hare decide to reenact the fabled race between their species, but this time with a slight twist. They start at the same place, but to be fair, the hare gives the tortoise a 40- second head start. If the tortoise runs at a constant speed of 3 meters per second, and the hare runs at a constant speed of 11 meters per second, how many meters will the hare run until he catches the tortoise?
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Question 598152: Ok I'm haveing trouble with this one I try using one that had the a ship going down stream and back again but not sure if it was right.This is the problem.
On a canoe trip, Rita paddled upstream (against the current) at an average speed of 2 mi/h relative to the riverbank. On the return trip downstream (with the current), her average speed was 3 mi/h. Find Rita's paddling speed in still water and the speed of the river's current.
This is what I tried: 3/2 or 1.5 mph, so the current is 1/2 the diference, so (3-1.5)/2 or 1.5/2=.75 mph for the current then Ritas paddleing speed is 3-.75=2.25 mph
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Question 598201: a truck travelled at 40 feet per second. how many miles is that?

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Question 598199: If it takes 10 minutes, to get from point A to point B at 60 miles per hour, how long will it take, going 2 miles per hour?
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Question 598186: Amanda leaves her home at 10:00 A.M and needs to get to a meeting 90 mi away by 11:30 A.M. How fast must Amanda travel?
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Question 598217: HOW MANY MILES CAN A BIKE TRAVEL IN 1 1/2 HOURS?
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Question 598284: how many revolutions per minute does 28in diameter wheel is traveling at 55 mi/hr?
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Question 598021: a helicopter makes a round trip flight that lasts 4.5 hrs. if the average rate out was 80 miles per hour and the average rate in was 100 miles per hour. what was the helicopters greatest distance from the airport?
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Question 598388: Lisa drove 180 miles, then increased her speed by 15 miles per hour for 405 miles. If the second part of the drive took 3 hours longer than the first part, find her average speed
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Question 598470: a car travles for 3 hours its average speed is 75km/h what is the distance the car travles?
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Question 598485: There are two small valves in the bottom of a tub filled with water. If opened, one valve will empty the tub in 3 hours; the other will empty it in 6 hours. If both valves are opened at the same time, how long will it take to empty the tub? Please show work.

I have such a problem with algebra. I will appreciate any help you can give me.

Thank you,
Lynnette
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Question 598486: Eddie is flying a jet against the wind on a 330 mile trip. Flying with the same wind speed, Eddie could fly a 550 mile trip in the same amount of time. If Eddie's jet flies at 220 miles per hour in still air, what is the speed of the wind?
I have such a problem with algebra. I will appreciate any help you can give me.

Thank you,
Lynnette
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Question 598526: if you go 64 miles per hour for 2 and a half hours how many miles is that
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Question 598526: if you go 64 miles per hour for 2 and a half hours how many miles is that
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Question 598399: Corbin was driving his car at a speed of r miles per hour, when he had to stop suddenly. It took the car 254 feet to stop. The formula relating the distance d in feet required to stop to the speed r in miles per hour is d=0.05r(squared)+r. To the nearest mile per hour, how fast was Corbin traveling just before he braked?
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