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Question 605568: a student takes 20 minutes to reach home which is 400 meters from school. what is the speed of the student
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Question 605635: A rock is thrown from the top of a tall building. The distance d in feet, between the rock and the ground t seconds after it is thrown is given by d= -16d squared + 2d + 560. How high will the rock be after 5.5 seconds?
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Question 605694: a fisherman takes 30 minutes to move from R to P.calculate his average speed in km/h
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Question 605696: A car used 3.5 gallons to make a 110 mile trip. How many gallons of gas would it take to make a 360 mile trip?
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Question 605899: A boat traveled at 10 km\hour for one hour, then at 13 km\hour for two hours and finally at 11 km\hour for 1 hour. the average speed over the whole trip was 15 km\hour support your analysis with a calculation
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Question 606074: when a cyclist travels with the wind, he can travel 16 miles in 2 hours. when the cyclist travels in the opposite direction, against the wind, he takes 4 hours to travel the same distance. find the equations and answers for the rate of the cyclist and the rate of the wind
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Question 606073: Two mopeds leave town at the same time in opposite directions. One travels 25 kilometers per hour and the other one travels at 45 kilometers per hour. In how many hours will they be 210 miles apart?
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Question 606084: Travel 100 miles in 30 min. What is MPH? With solution please!
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Question 606084: Travel 100 miles in 30 min. What is MPH? With solution please!
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Question 606222: john drove home at 40 mph. average speed on return is 24mph. return trip took 1/2 hour longer because of traffic. how for did she travel to appointment
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Question 606241: If you run the mile at a pace of ten miles per hour what would your time be when you finish the race?
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Question 606276: Jack drives 2 hours at a speed of 3 km/hr and 3 hrs at 40 km/hr. What is his average speed for the entire trip?
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Question 606290: 52 miles per hour for 2 3/4 hours.
How much distance was traveled?
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Question 606313: Jim traveled 240 miles to a convention. Later, his wife Ann drove up to meet him. Ann's average speed exceeded Jim's by 4 mph, and the trip took her 15 minutes less time. Find Ann's speed.
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Question 606328: Fern can fly her plane 240 miles against the wind in the same time it takes her to fly 360 miles with the wind. The speed of the plane in still air is 30 mph more than 4 times the speed of the wind. Find the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 606360: Mr.terrence drove 169 miles in 3 hours and 30 min. Find these rates . Miles an hour ,

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Question 606504: A boat sails 10.0 km downstream in 5 hours. What is its speed in km/hr and in m/s?
A glacier moves about 10 cm per day. How much distance it will cover in 10 year time period? Give the distance in km and also in m?
The mass of a rock is 25.0 g and its volume is 150 cm3. What is its density in g/cm3?
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Question 606520: with a north wind blowing at 20 mph, a helicopter flies due north for 30 mi an then returns. if the total time was 48 min, find the helicopter's speed in still air.
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Question 606579: Drove 378 miles at a speed of 54 mph. How long did the trip take?
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Question 606582: I am having trouble with the formula part of the problems. I can find the answer but cannot figure out how to write out the formulas in the right way and come up with the correct answer.
Two thieves rob a jewelry store and make their getaway at 10:00 am, traveling at 85 mph. At noon, the police leave the store, in hot pursuit of the robbers. If the police travel at 105 mph, how long does it take for the cops to catch the robbers? At what time of the day does this occur? How far from the jewelry store is the arrest made?

Any help would be greatly appreciated and if you want to just show me the formula on how to write it out without the answer, that is fine. I need all of the practice I can get working through these problems.
Thanks again!
cjoy75
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Question 606583: A family drove 1080 miles to their vacation lodge. Because of increased traffic density, their average speed on the return trip was decreased by 6 miles per hour and the trip took 2 1/2 hours longer. Determine their average speed on the way to the lodge.
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Question 606608: if tom can walk 65 miles in 1 minute how far can he walk in 8 minutes at the same pace?

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Question 606656: Suppose you average 52 mi/h traveling on the highway. If you drive for 5 hours, how far will you travel?

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Question 606179: a man walks from his home at a speed of 5km/h and returns at a speed of 3km/h what is the distance he walked if the whole trip takes 4 hours
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Question 606735: a concorde travels 1 mile per 3 seconds how far would it have travelled in an hour? please also explain how to work it out thank you.
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Question 606716: a bus driver wants to average at least 40 mph on a 70-mi trip. if the first 35 mi take the driver 1 hr, what should be the lowest average speed for the second 35 mi?

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Question 606763: How do you rearrange an equation to the form of y= or x=?
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Question 606488: Suppose a child throws a ball upward and gives it an initial velocity of 10 feet per second. The starting height of the ball is 2.5 feet. How long will it take for the ball to reach its maximum height?
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Question 606757: can someone write a monologue for me for the warden in the book holes
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Question 606822: what is longer 2 meters or 100cm?
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Question 606859: The second angle of the triangle is twice the first, while the third angle of the triangle is 1.5 times the second. What is the measure of the first angle?
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Question 606591: At noon, car A is 41 miles due west of car B and traveling east at a constant speed of 55 miles an hour. Meanwhile, car B is traveling north at 40 miles per hour. At what time will the two cars be closest to each other? Suggestion, minimize the square of the distance, rather than the distance itself
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Question 606971: Andy's average driving speed for a 4-hour trip was 45 miles per hour. During the first 3 hours he drove 40 miles per hour. what was his average speed for the last hour of his trip?
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Question 607129: A farmer drove to the market on Friday at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. He returned home on Sunday along the same route and averaged 40 miles per hour. If the farmer spent a total of two hours driving to and from the the market, how many miles did the farmer drive to the market on Friday?
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Question 607157: a. Mike and Scott live 110 miles from each other. They frequently meet for lunch at a restaurant that is between Mike’s house and Scott’s house. Leaving at the same time from their respective houses, Mike takes 1 hour and 30 minutes and Scott takes 1 hour and 15 minutes to get to the restaurant. If they each drive at the same speed,
i. Determine their speed
ii. How far from Scott’s house is the restaurant?
Thank you!
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Question 607211: two cyclists, 72 miles apart, start riding toward each other at the same time, one cyclist 2 times as fast as the other, if they meet 3 hours later, what is the speed(in mi/h) of the faster cyclist
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Question 607247: Hello, For the life of me I can't figure out how to setup this problem. I've tried the work principle and others with no luck. I have a final coming up and this is one of five sample problems. I have worked the other four correctly but am stumped with this one. Help would be appreciated. Thank you, Rob Bob's tractor is just as fast as Lucy's.It Takes Bob 1 hour(s)more than it takes Lucy to drive to town. If Bob is 20 miles from town and Lucy is 10 miles from town, how long does it take Lucy to drive to town?
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Question 607250: You sail 6mph with the wind. You sail 4mph against the wind. What is your actual speed, speed of the wind, and equation for solving.
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Question 607309: Please help me solve this word problem thank you.
It took Heidi 3 hours and 20 minutes longer to ride her bicycle 125 miles than it took Abby to ride 75 miles. If they both rode at the same rate, find the rate.
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Question 607276: I need help with this problem
An airplane takes 3 hours to travel a distance of 2160 miles with the wind . The return trip take 4 hours against the wind . Find the speed of the airplane in still air and the speed of the wind
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Question 607286: a restaurant purchased 8 tablecloth and five napkins foe $106. A week later, a tablecloth and six napkins were bought for $24. Find the cost of one tablecloth and he cost of one napkin, assuming the same prices for both purchases.
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