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Question 632760: 140lb(1kg/2.2lb)=63.63kg

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Question 632723: Ed rode his bike for 2 more hours than Ann rode hers. Ed traveled 24 miles and Ann traveled 6 miles. If they both rode at the same speed, for what length of time did Ed ride his bike?
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Question 632767: A plane travels 800 miles against a storm in 4 hours. Giving up, the pilot turns around and flies back 800 miles to the airport in only 2 hours with the aid of the tailwind. Find the speed of the wind and the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 632805: A cruise boat travels 72 miles downstream in 4 hours and returns upstream in 6 hours. Find the rate of the stream
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Question 632817: The Supercruiser leaves Miami for San Francisco 3240 miles away, travelling at an average speed of 40 miles per hour. At the same time, a slightly faster bus leaves San Francisco for Miami travelling at 41 miles per hour. How many hours will it take for the buses to meet?
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Question 632824: An airplane diving at an angle of 40.9 degrees below the horizontal drops a mailbag from an altitude of 900m. the bag strikes the ground 5.00s after its released.
a) what us the speed of the plane?
b) how far does the bag travel horizontally during its fall?
c) what are the horizontal and vertical components of its velocity just before it strikes the ground?
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Question 632869: Set up an equation and solve the following problem.
Felipe jogs for 21 miles and then walks another 21 miles. He jogs
3and 1/2 miles per hour faster than he walks, and the entire distance of 42 miles takes 9 hours. Find the rate at which he walks and the rate at which he jogs.
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Question 632876: If 2 trains leave a station in opposite directions and one is going 65 mph and the other 55 mph, how long will it be before they are 720 miles apart? Please EXPLAIN the process. I totally forget, and I need to know before the end of the day.
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Question 632959: If a person can walk 6 miles an hour, how long will it take for him to travel between his house and his job which is 10 miles away?
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Question 632978: if I run a mie in 4min 40 seconds what is my average speed?
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Question 632998: A train is passing a platform 50 metres long. It takes 20 seconds from the time the front of the engine reached the start of the platform till the last carriage past the end of the platform. If the average speed of the train was 50km/h, how long was the train?
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Question 633037: At 14 miles per hour how many feet does a car travel in a minute?
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Question 633037: At 14 miles per hour how many feet does a car travel in a minute?
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Question 633034: An airplane leaves los angeles for Denver at a speed of 450 mph.Thirty min later,a plane going from Denver yo los Angeles leaves Denver,which is 850 miles from los Angeles,at a speed of 520 mph.When they meet, how far are they from Denver?
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Question 633110: if car a and car b left at the same time with car a at the speed of 160kph and car b at 186kph, how long will i wait for?
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Question 633125: On a trip to the beach, you traveled 200 miles in 300 minutes. How fast did you travel?
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Question 633137: If a bus traveled 68 miles in 3 hours, how many feet would the bus have traveled per hour?
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Question 633131: If a bus traveled 68 miles in 3 hours, how many feet would the bus
have traveled per hour?
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Question 633104: Here's my question. A car 15 feet long overtakes a truck 30 feet long which is travelling at a rate of 45 miles per hour. How fast must the car travel to pass the truck in 3 seconds?
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Question 633107: Here's another word problem. Two children weighing 65 pounds and 45 pounds respectively are on opposite ends of an 11 foot board. Where must the point of support be placed if the board is to be balanced? (Neglect the weight of the board)
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Question 633217: A tugboat goes 140 miles upstream in 10 hours. The return trip downstream takes 5 hours. What is the speed of the tugboat with out a current and what is the speed of the current?

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Question 633317: If a peraon can run 2 miles in 30 minutes, how long will it take them to run 721 miles?
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Question 633335: john rowed 12 miles down river took 2 hour but the return trip took 3 hours
how fast is john going with out the flow of water? and how fast is the current of water?
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Question 633332: two planes are 2025 miles apart fly toward eachother. their speeds differ by 35 mph. if they pass in 3 hours what is the speed of each
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Question 633423: Ratio of angular speed of moon around the earth to the speed of moon around its own axis is ?
a. 1:2
b. 2:1
c. 5:1
d. 1:1
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Question 633439: If I drove for 1.5 hours at an average speed of 62 mph and then drove another half hour at an average speed of 24mph. How far did I drive?
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Question 633447: A runner takes off at 5 feet per second. 30 seconds later another runner takes off at 7 feet per second. How long will it take for the 2nd runner to catch the first?
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Question 633400: It took Malcolm 6 minutes to walk 500m from the bus stop to the opera house. How fast was he travelling?
Sorry I am just not good at Maths!
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Question 633472: Mr. Smith is driving on the highway at a constant speed of 65 miles per hour. He notices
a car exactly 1/3 mile behind. Exactly 1 minute later, the other car passes Mr. Smith’s
car. Assuming the speed of the other car is constant, how fast is it traveling?

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Question 632549: How long would it take me to go 18 miles at 72 mph?

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Question 633557: how long will it take me to travel 189 miles at the speed of 75 miles per hour
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Question 633561: mark leaves home at 9am and arrives at work at 9:45am. If the distance between his work and home is 30 miles, how fast did he travel?
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Question 633581: Can anyone help me solve this Im stuck
a fisherman is traveling on Pearl River took twice as long to travel 60 miles upstream in his boat that down stream. If the boats speed is 25 miles per hour in still water, find the speed of the current.
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Question 633628: Write an equation or inequality: The distance d to school is 1 1/2 miles more than the distance p to the park.
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Question 633687: Car is travellin 100km ,hw mny minutes will it take to reach 250km?
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Question 633789: A plane passes over a car going 300 mph heading south. The car is traveling at 70 mph going north. In how much time will they be 805 miles apart?
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Question 633798: Please help me on this world problem: Mike walks 2 miles per hour faster than Steve. Steve walks 12 miles in 4 hours. How long would it take for Mike to walk the same distance? I need the steps please too! Thank you so much!
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Question 633823: A motorboat takes 5 hours to travel 300 going upstream. The return trip takes 3 hours going downstream. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 633831: How long would it take to walk driving for an hour going 40 mph?
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Question 633836: Trains A and B, 200 km apart on the same track, travel at speeds of 50 km/hr and 65 km/hr respectively. At the end of 1 hour, the distance between the trains could not be
A) 85 km B) 115 km C) 185 km D) 215 km
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Question 633670: A proton is traveling at a constant speed of 0.5 c (half the speed of light) along a circular path inside a particle accelerator. The area enclosed inside the accelerator is 1.6 square kilometers. How many times can the proton go around in 80 nanoseconds?
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Question 633862: A car travels to the east from City A to City B, it takes 2 hours, and the road mileage is 100 miles. The map shows that the cities are only 80 miles apart. What is the average velocity?
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