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Question 610884: A train travels 20 feet in 1/5 second. At this same
speed, how many feet will it travel in three seconds?

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Question 610903: When air is pumped into a tire, the pressure required varies inversely as the volume of the air. If the pressure is 30lb per square inch when the volume is 140 cubic inches, find the pressure when the volume is 100 cubic inches?
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Question 610867: If Chelsey walks one kilometer in 12 minutes,how long will it take her to walk 3000 meters?
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Question 610970: One car travels 25 mph faster than another. One can travel 300 miles on the same time it take another car to travel 450 miles find the speed of the faster car.
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Question 611232: Two cars leave the origin; one goes north at 55 mph and the other goes south at 30 mph. After how many hours will they be 350 miles apart?
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Question 611365: a. Suppose two animals are in a race. Choose the two animals and calculate the speed of each animal in yards per second.
b. Decide how much of a head start (in yards) the faster animal offers the slower animal. For each animal, write an equation relating distance from the starting line to time.
c. Graph the two equations on the same coordinate plane
d. How long will it take the faster animal to overtake the slower animal? How many yards from the starting line are the animals when the faster animal overtakes the slower animal?
e. Reduce the head start by half and repeat parts c and d.
So I did a and I picked an Ostrich 45 mph and a lion 50 mph. I converted them and got 22 yards per second for the ostrich and 24.44 yards per second for the lion.
The rest of the questions have me confused. Please tell me how to do these and provide an explanation I'm really stuck on this and it's due in two days.
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Question 611393: I traveled 7 4/5 miles in 3 hours. How far did I travel each hour?
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Question 611393: I traveled 7 4/5 miles in 3 hours. How far did I travel each hour?
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Question 611423: If the pilot of a plane wants to fly 800 miles east and 155 miles north of the airport, to the nearest degree, in what direction should he head?
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Question 611336: i'm traving 25mi per hour, how long will it take to drive 50ft.
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Question 611474: Manish travels a certain distance by his car at the rate of 12km/hr and walks back at the rate of 3km/hr . the whole journey took 5 hrs . what is the distance he covered on car

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Question 611563: if i get paid 1.20 a mile how do make an hour@
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Question 611619: If im driving 22miles and gas prices are 4.00 per gallon how much gas do I need to buy to get to my destenatio.?
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Question 611657: Two cars are 190 miles apart and travel toward each other along the same road. They meet in 2 hr. One car travels 4 mph faster than the other. what is the average speed of each car?
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Question 611618: If I'm driving 22 miles and gas prices are $4.00 per gallon, how much gas do I need to buy to get to my destenation?
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Question 611746: Julie left Canterbury in her car for an interview later that day.she left at 7am and arrived at Birmingham,180 miles later at 11am what was Julie average speed miles per hour
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Question 611747: I have a real life algebra problem.....what is the impact of a train traveling at 20 km/hr on a stationary vehicle? How would that force of gravity affect the passenger inside the vehicle?
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Question 611773: A stunt diver jumps from the top of a 40-meter platform. The diver's height above the water can be modeled by the function h=-5t^2+10t+40, where h is height in meters and t is time in seconds. Find the time it takes the diver to reach the water.
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Question 611899: Brittnay drove 3 times as far as Lindsey. All together they drove 300 miles. How many miles did each of them drive?
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Question 611988: how far will a train moving at 42 miles per hour travel in 3 1/2 hours???
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Question 612042: how fast would you be going if it took you 7.7 seconds to go 1/4 mile?
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Question 612166: Hi
I am a math teacher, but I do not understand the following relationship:
If two trains start at the same time from points A and B towards each other and after crossing they take a and b sec in reaching B and A respectively, then:
(A's speed) : (B's speed) = [sqrt (b) : sqrt (a)]
I can not prove the above formula.
Please help me. Thank you very much.
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Question 612169: Two cars leave the origin; one goes north at 45 mph and the other goes south at 50 mph. After how many hours will they be 300 miles apart?
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Question 612332: How long would it take to drive 2,440 miles going 50mph?
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Question 612326: If someone travels 35 miles in 60 minutes what is the rate
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Question 612301: It took Diego 5hours to drive to Vegas. If he traveled at an average speed of 62miles per hour how far did he drive?
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Question 612397: how long will your trip take (in hours) if you travel 350km at an average speed of 80km/hr?

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Question 612471: a long distance truck driver travels 260 miles in a snow storm. on the return trip in the rain he acccomplished it 5 hours eariler and double the speed. what speed was he going

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Question 612452: A cattle train left Miami and traveled toward
New York. 14 hours later a diesel train left
traveling at 45 km/h in an effort to catch up
to the cattle train. After traveling for four
hours the diesel train finally caught up.
What was the cattle train's average speed?
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Question 612513: Two rockets having the same acceleration start from rest, but rocket A travels for twice as much time as rocket B. If rocket A goes a distance of 310 km, how far will rocket B go? If rocket A reaches a speed of 370 m/s, what speed will rocket B reach?
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Question 612540: Malcolm rides his bike 1 mile north, then 1 mile east, then 1 mile north, and then 1 mile east. How far is Malcolm from where he started?
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Question 612561: Jose left the airport and traveled toward the
mountains. Kayla left 2.1 hours later
traveling 35 mph faster in an effort to catch
up to him. After 1.2 hours Kayla finally
caught up. Find Jose's average speed.
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Question 612588: a bridge in a state is 450 feet long. phil and heim started walking across the bridge at the same time. heim's speed was 2 feet per minute faster then phil's. if heim finished walking across the brdige 2.5 minutes before phil, find phil's average speed in feet per minute.
Phil's average speed is ___ feet per minute
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Question 612616: Two cars leave the origin; one goes north at 35 mph and the other goes south at 50 mph. After how many hours will they be 500 miles apart?
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Question 612631: if jacob drove 360 miles in 6 hours, how many feet did he travel per second?

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Question 612671: If I'm driving 80 miles an hour and my destanation is 80 miles away how long will it take me to get there
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Question 612679: If a man ran 1/5 of mile in 12 minutes ,what is his speed in miles per hour?

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Question 612679: If a man ran 1/5 of mile in 12 minutes ,what is his speed in miles per hour?

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Question 612619: thomas drove 30 mi in 1/2 hour. Lisa drove twice as far in 3 times as much time. How fast did Lisa drive. Give your answer in miles per hour and explain how you solved the problem.
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Question 612617: Use the equation: h = 5t^2 +vt + c
h= HEIGHT
v= VELOCITY
t= TIME
c= distance thrown from

A rock fall off a cliff 80 meters from the ground. How long does it take for the rock to hit the ground?
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Question 612703: Car A leaves Santa Barbara at noon traveling south toward Los Angeles at 70 mph. At 1pm car B leaves Los Angeles traveling north toward Santa Barbara at 90 mph. The distance between the cars at noon was 100 miles. If car B does not get pulled over, how many minutes after car B leaves will they pass each other?
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Question 612728: A plane X starts at A and flies to B which is a point 900 Km north and 1200 Km west of A. A plane Y starts at C which is 600 Km west of A and flies north. Draw a diagram of this information on a piece of scratch paper.
(a) Where do the flight paths cross?
Km north of A and Km west of A.
(b) Let plane X travel 500Km/hr, then how fast must plane Y fly to crash into plane X assuming that they take off at the same time?
Km/hr
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Question 612831: when will the tortoise and hare pass each other and how far will they be from the starting line
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Question 612861: A wheel makes 8 5/6 revolutions per minute if it rotates for 57 minutes how many revolutions does it make. please show work.
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Question 612855: IF JOSEPH CAN ENCODE ONE BOX FILE OF DATA WITHIN 4 HOURS, AND JOEL CAN ENCODE THE SAME VOLUME(1 BOX FILE) WITHIN 7 HOURS, HOW LONG CAN THEY FINISH 150 BOX FILES TOGETHER?
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