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Question 636386: how long will a boy sitting near the window of a train travelling at54 km/hr see atrain passing by in the direction opposite to it with a speed of 36km/hr . the lenght of the slow moving train is 100m
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Question 501008: Hi!
I am sorry if this kind of question has been asked often before, but I just couldnt figure out how to solve and I would be so thankful if anyone could tell how to solve this mathematically. Thanks so much in advance!

"Through a combination of sight, sound, and smell a rabbit can detect a fox at 42 yards. When the rabbit detects the fox, it runs immediately straight to its hole. If the fox can run twice as fast as the rabbit, what is the maximum distance from its hole that a rabbit can safely venture? Assume that the rabbit escapes if they arrive at the hole at the same time."
Kind regards
Fube
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Question 636388: a train travelling 110m long is travelling at 60 km/hr in what time it will cross a cyclist moving at 6km/hr
a) in the same direction
b) in the opposite direction
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Question 636464: going 50 mph for 120 miles... how long will it take me???
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Question 636468: Train A leaves a station traveling at 32 km/h. Two hours later, train B leaves the same station traveling in the same direction at 52 km/h. How long does it take train B to catch up to train A?
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Question 636460: you have to drive 300 miles. for the first three hours, you drive 50 mph. how much longer will you have to drive if you increas your speed to 65 mph?
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Question 636452: how many miles can you travel at the speed of 55mpg in 11 hrs?
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Question 636536: If you drive 40mph, how far will you drive in 4 1/2 hours?
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Question 636532: You leave Tulsa at 1:00 in the afternooon. You drive for 270 miles at 60 miles per hour until you reach your destination. What time do you arrive?
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Question 636542: A travels the first 15km at a uniform speed of 20
km/h; the next 75 km at a unifom speed of 50 km/h;ad the last 10Km at a uiform speed of 20Km/h. calculate the average speed for the entire jourey
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Question 636626: wo people, 240 meters apart, start walking toward each other at rates of 1 m/sec. and 3 m/sec. Use the distance formula, d = rt, to find how long it will take before they meet.
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Question 636657: how far will you travel in 5 minutes running at a rate of 7m/s?

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Question 636729: A crowbar is 4 1/2 feet long. Where must the fulcrum be placed so that a weight of 1600 pounds can be moved by exerting a force of 200 pounds?
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Question 636731: A rod has a weight of 45 pounds attached to one end, a weight of 65 pounds to the other. It balances at a point 8 inches from the middle. How long is it? (Assume that the rod itself is weightless.)
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Question 636753: I cant seem to figuere out the answer to this question and was wondering if you guys can help me. Im not completely stumped but here is the question and here is how much i have.
A boat cruises 36mi against a 3mph current and 36 mi back in the direction of the same current. The round trip takes 5 hours what is the speed of the boat in still water?

speed of boat against stream x-3
speed of boat with stream x+3
however i think my equation is wrong.
I end up with something like this?
36/x-3 = 5 but im not sure what i should be doing about the other side of the equation.

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Question 636742: after flying 800 miles the pilot has completed 2/5 of the total trip. how long is the trip?
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Question 636790: Victor traveled from Tucson to Boston at 60 mph. Wanda traveled from Boston to Tucson and made the trip in four hours less than victor but by traveling at 65 mph. Find the distance between Boston and Tucson.
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Question 636755: Wendy took a trip from devenport to ohama, a distance of 300mi. she traveled part of the way by bus, which arrived at the train station just in time for Wendy to complete her journey by train. the bus averaged 40 mi/h and the train 60 mi/h. the entire trip took 5 1/2 h. how long did Wendy spend on the train?

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Question 636806: Jeff starts driving at 55mph from the same point lauren starts driving at 70mph. They drive in the opposite directions and Lauren has a half hour head start. How long will they be able to talk on their cellphones that have a 280 mile range?
The answers we have to chose from are in form of a fraction with a whole number.

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Question 636845: If a man can run 10 miles per hour, how many feet per second is he running?
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Question 636835: A river boat's speed is 5 kilometers/hour on standing water when it is charged and 15 kilometers an hour on standing water when it is empty. The boat sets sail charged up the river (against the current) to a distance of 81 kilometers. It returns (against the current) empty. The total sailing time there and back, including 3 hours of docking for unloading the cargo, is 48 hours. What is the speed of the current?
I have no clue how to do this problem, and never did a problem like this before. Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it!
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Question 636847: The distance between train station A and train station B is 180 kilometers. Train station C is between station A and station B, and is located 30 kilometers away from station A. At 7 AM, a freight train left from station A to station B and at 8 AM, a passenger train left from station C to station B. The speed of the passenger train is 30 km/hour greater than the freight train.
The passenger train arrived to station B 20 minutes earlier than the freight train arrived to station B.
What is the speed of the freight train?
Thanks so much for your time! :)
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Question 636878: 5355meters equals to how many kilograms
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Question 636898: Rosie and Katie left school at the same time, traveling in the opposite directions. At the end of an hour, Katie had driven twice as far as Rosie, and they were 24 miles apart. How far had each driven?
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Question 636921: A car travels at an average speed of 64 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 5 hours and 45 minutes?
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Question 636832: The distance between city A and B is 90 kilometers. At the same time, a car and a motorcycle left from city A to city B. The motorcycle drove at a constant speed the entire drive and the car passed 1/3 of the drive 30 kilometers per hour faster than the motorcycle's speed, stopped for half an hour, and then continued the drive at a speed 20% slower than the speed driven in the first 1/3 of the drive. The car arrived 15 minutes before the motorcycle to city B (they drove the same distance). What was the speed of the motorcycle?
This is supposed to be easy, I just keep messing up somewhere.
I know Distance=Speed*Time
The motorcycle's speed is x, and the time is 90/x (because the distance is 90)
The car's speed is x+30, and the time is 30/x+30 (because 1/3 of 90 is 30)
Then the speed is .80(x+30) and the time is 60/.8x+24 (the remaining distance being 60 km)
but the car stopped for half an hour, and then arrived 15 minutes before the motorcycle, so I only add 1/4 of an hour to the time in the second equation..
After this step I keep getting stuck... Could you please help me finish?
Thanks so much! I don't know what I would do without your help!
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Question 636846: At 8:00 AM a freight car left from city A to city B carrying citrus fruits. At the same time, a bike rider left from city B to city A. The freight car's speed was 32 km/hour greater than the bike rider.
They drove the same trail and their speeds were constant. The freight car arrived to city B, waited there for 1/4 of an hour, and then started driving back to city A. On the way back, the car met the bike rider 38 kilometers away from from city A. The distance between the two cities is 64 kilometers. What was the speed of the bike rider?
Thanks so much for your time! I really appreciate it!
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Question 636991: how many kilometers per hour will you average in order to travel 310 kilometers in 13 hours?

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Question 637048: a plane traveled 1386 miles to singapore and back. The trip there was with the wind. It took 9 hours. The trip back was into the wind. the trip back took 11 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 637062: if you traveled 7 hours each day how many miles did you acctually go
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Question 637075: how long would it take to get from Kalamazoo,Michigan to Stamford,Connecticut traveling by train?
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Question 637066: Cindy walked to work at an average speed of 6 miles an hour and biked back along the same route at 10 miles per hour. If her total traveling time was 2 hours, how long is the distance from her house to work?
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Question 637089: Keiko runs 7 miles in 80 mins. At the same rate, how many miles would she run in 32mins?
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Question 637086: Keith rented a truck for one day. There was a base fee of $15.95, and there was an additional charge of 73 cents for each mile driven. Keith had to pay $173.63 when he returned the truck. For how many miles did he drive the truck?
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Question 637145: India drove 50 yards. How many miles did she drive
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Question 637150: at 65 mph how far will you travel in 5 seconds
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Question 637150: at 65 mph how far will you travel in 5 seconds
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Question 637149: An airplane climbs at takeoff with slope m=4/9. How far in the horizontal direction will the airplane fly to reach an altitude of 20,000 ft above the takeoff point?
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Question 637181: Sarah can run at a speed af 5 miles per hour. How many miles can she cover in 5 minutes
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Question 637342: The traveling time is 25 minutes shorter if you higher the average speed by 5
km/hour. Raising the average speed by another 5 km/hour lowers the traveling
time by another 20 minutes. What is the distance of the trail?
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Question 637387: The sum of the speeds of two trains is 723.7. If the speed of the first train is 10.3 faster than the second train, find the speeds of each.
HELP!! this is killing me that i cant figure this out
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Question 637330: what is the speed of a cheetah that runs 70m in 2.5s?
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Question 637497: A car traveled 120 km in 2 hours whatwas its average speed in km per hour?
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Question 637558: On a trip a student drove 40 mph for 2 hours and then drove 30 mph for 3 hours what is the average rate in mph for the whole trip
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