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Question 607301: Explain me below mentioned question's answer.
Two trains 150m and 160m long are going in the same direction at 42 km and 73 km per hour respectively.How long will it take to pass each other?
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Question 607206: The driving distance between Pensacola and Key West is 792 miles. Bus A leaves Pensacola at 6:00 a.m. traveling at an average speed of 42 miles per hour. Bus B leaves Key West at 7:00 a.m. traveling at an average speed of 33 miles per hour. At what distance, in miles, from Key West will the two buses meet?

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Question 607346: Can the formula d =6t be used to find the distance (d) in miles traveled by an airplane at a certain speed for t minutes. according to the formula what is the speed of the airplane in miles per hour

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Question 607338: You are going 158mph in Indianapolis which is about 1200 miles west of Dayton, when the cop catch up to you. If you stole the car at 11 pm in Dayton, how long did it take you to get to Indy, and what time is it when the cops saw you? You see a spike in the road about 3 miles up the road, so you decide to cross over the median, ( in a semi circle motion) and turn back around and head to Canada for safety. You accelerate at 1000ft/s/s how log does it take you to get back up to your cruisig speed of 158mph? If Canada is 450 miles away from where you are how long will it take you to get there assuming there will be no more cops in your way.
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Question 607317: A boat can travel at a constant rate of 15 miles per hour in still water. The total time taken to go upstream and return to the starting point is given by the function t = 60
15 - c
+ 60
15 + c
, where c represents the speed of the current.
If the speed of the current is 5 miles per hour, how many hours will the boat take to complete the trip?
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Question 607208: The Withlacoochee State Trail is the longest paved bike trail in Florida. The bike trail is 46 miles long and runs from Citrus Springs to Trilby. Carlos and Kevin decide to bike the trail from opposite directions. Carlos leaves Citrus Springs at 8:00 a.m. traveling at an average speed of 8 miles per hour. Kevin leaves Trilby at 10:00 a.m. traveling at an average speed of 7 miles per hour. At what distance, in miles, from Citrus Springs will the two friends meet?
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Question 607369: Flying with the wind, a plane flew 800 mi in 4 h. Against the wind, the plane required 8 h to fly the same distance. Find the rate of the plane in calm air and the rate of the wind
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Question 607372: A jet travels against the wind in hours and with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the jet in still air and what is the rate of the wind?

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Question 607409: Malek drove for 2 hours then stopped for a break. After that, he drove for 3 hours at a
speed 10 miles per hour (mph) more than the speed before the break. The total distance
he drove was 280 miles. What was Malek’s speed before the break?
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Question 607397: An object's weight on the moon, M varies directly as its weight on Earth, E. A person who weights 55 kilograms on Earth weighs 8.8 kilograms on the moon. What is the moon weight of a person who weights 90 kilograms on Earth? Is it 14.4 Kg? Thank you
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Question 607364: Jodie bicycles 7km/h faster than Carlos. In the same time if takes Carlos to bicycle 51 km and Jodie can bicycle 72km. How fast does each bicycle travel?
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Question 607421: Charlotte walks to work every morning. It takes 40 minutes if she walks at 4.5 km/h. How long will it take her to cycle to work at a speed of 30 km/h?

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Question 607422: John Averaged 50 MPH from city A to B returning over the same route he averaged 55 mph if it took him 32 hours total time, how far apart are A and B?
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Question 607482: 36 miles for 32 minutes how fast did she drive
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Question 607576: 40km in 1hr how do i work out how long it takes to travel 2km ?
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Question 607595: The distance a ball will roll down an incline is directly related to square of the time it rolls. If a ball rolls 5 feet in one second, how far will it roll in the NEXT 4 seconds?
This is a little different from the questions already on the site in that I feel they're asking for the entire 5 second period the ball is rolling. So if I know that the ball rolls 5 ft in the first second, and it rolls 125 ft for the full five seconds. The answer must be the ball rolls 120 ft (125 minus 5 ft) in the NEXT four seconds. Please advise. Thanks!
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Question 607616: For a tire radius 14 in, find the number of rotations the tire will make in 1 hour going at 55 mph.
I do not know where to begin.
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Question 607609: a car travels at an average of 52 miles per hour. how long does it take to travel 195 miles?
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Question 607685: an airplane travels at 250 miles/hour for 90 minutes. Give the distance the plane traveled in miles.
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Question 607734: a car travels at 60 miles per hour for 20 miles. give the time it took for the trip in minutes.
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Question 607707: Train A and B are traveling in the same direction,on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 100 miles per hour ans train B is traveling at 120 miles per hour.Train A passes a station at 8:10 P.M. If train B passes the same station at 8:22 P.M., at what time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 607606: walking on a moving sidewalk at an airport took only 7 minutes while walking at 5ft/sec alongside the same moving sidewalk but in the opposite direction took 21 minutes. How fast was the moving sidewalk moving
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Question 607642: Julie drives 110 mi to Grandmother's house. On the way to Grandmother's, Julie drives half the distance at 25 mph and half the distance at 85 mph. On her return trip, she drives half the time at 25 mph and half the time at 85 mph.
Part A
How long does it take Julie to complete the trip to Grandmother's house? ( I got this far and the answer is t = 2.8h )
Part B
How long does the return trip take? ( This is where I need help )
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Question 607963: At top speed, a rabbit can cover 7 miles in 12 minutes. Ifa rabbit could continue at this rate indefinitely, how long would it take the rabbit to cross the 220 mile expanse of the Majove Desert
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Question 607961: Eduardo counted ten seconds between seeing lightning and hearing thunder, and he know that the lightning was about 2 miles away. If he counted four seconds between the next flash of lightning and thunder, about how far away was the lightning
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Question 608005: How do I solve the equation r=Kv^-2 for v?
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Question 608017: if one vehicle is going 20 MPH and another is going 60 MPH, the one going 60 MPH has ____ times the momentum as the one going 20 MPH ?
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Question 608087: A surveyor has poles A, B, and C set to form a right triangle with the right angle at B. If the distance from A to B is 35 meters and the distance from B to C is 25 meters, what is the distance from A to C? He can't measure it because there is a deep pond between points A and C.
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Question 608285: A motor boat traveled 12 miles with the current, turned around, and returned 12 miles against the current to its starting point. The trip with the current took 2 hours and the trip against took 3 hours. Find the speed of the boat and the speed of the current.
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Question 608297: how many minutes will it take a car to reach its destination if it has to travel 50 miles at 70 miles per hour

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Question 608367: if you paddled 24 hours in 49 miles how far did you go
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Question 608468: When a ball is thrown in the air, the height h of a ball in feet t seconds after the ball is thrown in the air, is given by the equation height = 25t–16t²
Use the quadratic equation to determine how many seconds goes by before the ball hits the ground?
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Question 608561: Hi,
I'm not even sure how to start to set this problem up. :/ Thanks for your help!!
Dirk and Garret decide to have a 40-mile bike race. During the race, Dirk averages 2 miles per hour faster than Garret and beats Garret by 2/3 of an hour. What was each man's speed?
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Question 608584: A man travels 42km in 45 min what is his average speed in km/hr
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Question 608583: Gita walks 2 1/2 miles in one hour. How much time does it take her to walk 7 miles?
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Question 608593: Danny sails a boat downstream. The wind pushes the boat along at 21 km/hr. The current runs downstream at 15 km/hr. What is the actual velocity of the boat?

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Question 608743: Grace runs 3 miles a day. Find this rate in feet per day
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Question 608597: Two cars, A & B are 400 miles apart. They start to approach each other, car A at 50 miles per hour and car B at 30 miles per hour. A canary is on car A when they start out. It flies until it reaches car B, then flies back to A, then back to B and continues until the cars meet. If the canary flies at a rate of 60 miles per hour, how far will it fly until the cars meet?
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Question 609068: if a freight train leaves the station traveling 32 km an hour and 2 hours later, a passenger train leaves the same station traveling 52 km and hour, how long will it take for the passenger train to catch the freight train?
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Question 609125: The height of a building is 1554 ft. How long would it take an object to fall to the ground from the top? Use the formula s=16t^2, where s is the distance, in feet, traveled by an object falling freely from rest in t seconds.
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Question 609146: Mr. P and his sister leave their home at the same time traveling in opposite directions. Mr. P. travels at 57 mph and his sister travels at 65 mph. In how many hours will they be 366 miles apart?
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