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Question 103901: a boat has a speed of 15 mph in still water. It travels downstream from Greentown, in three-fifths of an hour. It then goes back upstream from Glenavon to Cambria, which is two miles downstream from Greentown, in three fithts of an hour. Find the rate of the current.
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Question 103893: Doomstown is 200 miles due west of Sagebrush, and Joshua is due west of Doomstown. At 9 A.M. Mr Archer leaves Sagebrush for Joshua. At 1 P.M. Mr. Sassoon leaves Doomtown for Joshua. If Mr. Sassoon travels at an average speed 20 mph faster than Mr Archer and they reach Joshua at 4 pm, how fast is each traveling?
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Question 104015: Does it take twice as far to stop a car that is going twice as fast? Explain.
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Question 104098: The distance between Buffalo, New York and Chicago, Illnois is 600 miles. On a US road atlas, this distance is represented by 10 inches. On the same atlas, the distance between Chicago and Denver, Colorado is 18 inches. What is the distance between Chicago and Denver?
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Question 104201: Two cars leave town going opposite directions. One car is traveling 55 mph, and the other is traveling 65 mph How long will it take before they are 180 miles apart?
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Question 104207: Richie put on his jogging shoes and speed-walked to the park at 5 miles per hour. Then he ran back at 9 miles per hour. If the total trip took 4 2/3 hours, how far was it to the park?
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Question 104199: Sunset rents an SUV at $21.95 plus $0.23 per mile. Sunrise rents the same vehicle for $24.95 plus $0.19 per mile. For what mileage is the cost the same?
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Question 104205: A kayaker paddled 2 hours with a 6 mph current in a river. The return trip against the same current took 3 hours. Find the speed the kayaker would make in still water.
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Question 104204: A kayaker paddled 2 hours with a 6 mph current in a river. The return trip against the same current took 3 hours. Find the speed the kayaker would make in still water.
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Question 104203: A kayaker paddled 2 hours with a 6 mph current in a river. The return trip against the same current took 3 hours. Find the speed the kayaker would make in still water.
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Question 104329: A consultant traveled 8 hours to attend a meeting. The return trip took only 7 hours because the speed was 3 miles per hour faster. What was the consultant’s speed each way
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Question 104333: A car travels at 40 km/h 30 minutes and 60 km/h for 15 minutes. How far does it travel in this time?
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Question 104439: This is a wind velocity problem. A plane can fly 340 miles per hour in still air. If it can fly 200 miles downwind in the same amount of time it can fly 140 miles upwind, find the velocity of the wind.
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Question 104324: Two friends live 60 miles apart. They ride their bikes to meet each other. Sally heads east at 21 mph. Therese heads west riding at a rate of 15 mph. How far does each cyclist ride in t hours. Write and solve an equation to find when they meet.
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Question 104556: a bullet shot straight up is s feet above the ground in t seconds
[[[[where s=f(t)=-16t^2 + 265t]]]]. find the height of the bullet 3 seconds after it is shot
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Question 104538: bob makes 20 drinks in five minutes, sarah makes 20 drinks in 10 minutes, and Gary makes 20 drinks in 15 minutes. How long will it take them to make the 20 drinks if they were working together?
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Question 104624: marla begins walking at 3 mi/h toward the library. her friend meets her at the halfway point and drives her the rest of the way to the library. the distance to the library is 4 miles. how many hours did marla walk?
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Question 104520: If you throw a ball straight up with a speed of 20 m/s how fast will it be moving when you catch it ?
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Question 104935: Question : A twin-engine plane can fly 800 mi in the same time that it takes a single-engine plane to fly 600 mi. The rate of the twin engine plane is 50 miles faster than that of the single engine plane. Find the rate of the twin engine plane.
This is what I have tried:
distance/time=rate.
Twin engine 800 50+r
Single engine 600 50-r
So 800/50+r & 600/50-r
(50+r)(50-r)800/50+r=(50+r)(50-r)600/50-r
(50-r)800=(50+r)600
40000-800=30000+600
-1400=-10000
r=?
I have been trying to find wesites that could help me with this problem all week. The week for this problem is over tomorrow, October 18,2007, at 11:59pm.
Please help me ASAP! I have many other questions that need answering and I am looking forward to someone helping me out.
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Question 104984: The time in seconds that it takes for an object to fall to the ground from a building that is 1400 ft high.
t=1/4 sqrt s
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Question 104939: Brittani and Lea, two cyclists, start simultaneously. Brittani at point A and Lea at Point B. They travel toward each other at constant sppeds. They pass each other in 30 minutes, and Brittani, headed for point B, arrives there in another 20 minutes. How many minutes after brittani arrives at point B will Lea arrive at Point A?
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Question 105126: Ching leaves San Francisco and travels toward Los Angeles at 50 miles/hour. An hour later, Phil leaves Los Angeles and travels toward San Francisco at 60 miles/hour. If the two cities are 380 miles apart, how many hours will it take for Ching to meet Phil?
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Question 105229: How long must a guywire be to run from the top of a 18ft pole to a point on the ground 12 feet away?
Have have not a clue.
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Question 105278: One carpenter can complete a kitchen in 8 days. With the help of another carpenter, they can do the job toegether in 4 days. How long would it take the second carpenter if he worked alone?
Would you set it up like this?
x/4-x/8=1
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Question 105277: A boat travels 45 mi to an island and 45 mi back again. Changes in the wind and tide made the average speed on the return trip 3 mph slower than the speed on the way out. If the total time of the trip took 6.75 hr, find the speed going to the island and the speed of the return trip.
Word problems are a problem for me. Do you set this up as 45x=45x-3??

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Question 105335: an athlete throws a javelin from height of 1.5 meters the horizontal velocity is 9.8 meters per second. (Assume the accerlation due to gravity is 9.8 meters per second).
a) Write a parametic equation that describes the position of the javelin at time t.
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Question 105482: Tom and John drive 258 miles in 5 hours. Tom drives for the first part, and John drives for the second part. How long did Jon drive for?
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Question 105585: A window washer accidentally drops a bucket from the top of a 64-foot building. The height (h) of the bucket after t seconds is given by the following formula: h=-16t^2+64. How long will it take for the bucket to hit the ground?
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Question 105593: A trip to Florida takes 29 1/4 hours. Assuming we are 1/4 of the way, how long has the trip taken so far?
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Question 105584: One carpenter can complete a kitchen in 8 days. With the help of another carpenter, they can do the job together in 4 days. How long would it take the second carpenter if he worked alone?
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Question 105509: A car rental company charges $25 a day plus $.10 a mile. If I rented a car for 3 days and was charged $105. For how many miles did I get Charged? If I actually drove the car 250 miles, did I get charged the right amount.
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Question 105678: You enroll in a book club in which you can earn bonus points yo use toward the purchase of books. Each paperback book you order cost $6 dollars and earns you 2 bonus points. Each hardcover book cost $19 dollars and earns you 4 bonus points. The first order you place comes to a total of $87 and earns you 22 bonus points. how many of each type of book did you order?

wasn't in textbook.
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Question 105676: You enroll in a book club in which you can earn bonus points yo use toward the purchase of books. Each paperback book you order cost $6 dollars and earns you 2 bonus points. Each hardcover book cost $19 dollars and earns you 4 bonus points. The first order you place comes to a total of $87 and earns you 22 bonus points. how many of each type of book did you order?
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Question 105693: If a car is traveling 55 miles per hour, how long will it take to go 12 miles? Is there a formula for this type of problem?
Thank you!
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Question 105583: brooke walks 2 km/hr slower than her older sister Adrianna. If Brooke can walk 12 km in the same amount of time that Adrianne can walk 18 km, find their speeds
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Question 105890: At 2:45 pm you are 112 miles from Dallas. You want to be in Dallas at 4:30 pm. What is the average number of miles per hour you must travel to be on time?
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Question 106055: thank u for sparing time for this problem.
in his motorboat,Larry can go downstream in 1 hour less time than he can go upstream the same distance.If the current is 5 mph, how fast can he travel in still water if it takes him 2 hours to travel upstream the given distance.?
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Question 106209: A passenger train can travel 325 mi in the same time a freight train takes to travel 200 mi. If the speed of the passenger train is 25 mi/h faster than the speed of the freight train, find the speed of each.
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Question 106224: I have tried to solve this using several equations, none seem to work. The one that I think came the closest was (this did not come from a math textbook, it came from an online assignment for intermediate algebra):

when I solved it I got x = -50 and x = 40
Here is the word problem:
Steve traveled 200 miles at a certain speed. Had he gone 10 mph faster, the trip would have taken 1 hour less. Find the speed of his vehicle.
Thanks for your help!!

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Question 106148: Martina leaves home at 9 A.M., bicycling at a rate of
24 mi/h. Two hours later, John leaves, driving at the rate of 48 mi/h. At what time
will John catch up with Martina?
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Question 106109: at noon, a passenger ship and a freighter left a port traveling in oposite directions. By midnight, the passanger ship was 3 times farther from port than the freighter was. How far was the freighter from port if the distance between the ships was 84 miles?
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Question 106198: On a river a boat travels 240 miles downstream in the same amount of time that it takes to travel 160 miles upstream. The speed of the boat without current is 25 mph. Find the speed of the river. Be sure to define your variable, write an equation, and show how you solved it.
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Question 106317: If Sally can paint a hous in 4 hours,and John can paint the same house in 6 hours,how long will it take for them to paint the house together?
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