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Question 131721: A cattle train left Miami and traveled toward New York. 14 hours later a diesel train left traveling at 45 km/h in 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 131964: A boy leaves on a bicycle trip at the rate of 8 mph. One hour later the father, realizing that his son forgot his camping gear, sets out by car. How fast must the father drive to overtake the boy in 15 minutes?
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Question 131961: With a certain tail wind a jet aircraft arrives at its destination, 1,890 miles away, in 3 hours. Flying against the same wind, the plane makes the return trip in 3 3/8 hours. Find the wind speed and the plane's airspeed.
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Question 131974: You are entered in a driving contest and you are expected to maintain an average speed of 60 mph for two miles. Unfortunately, your car develops a miss and you can only maintain a speed of 30 mph for the first mile. How fast do you have to drive the second mile in order to meet the overall average speed requirement? (I thought is was 90 mph, but that is incorrect.)
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Question 132077: There is a train station located at some point on a circular track of radius 30/pi miles. Train A leaves the station at 12:00 traveling 90 mph in the counterclockwise direction. Two and half hours later train B leaves the same station traveling in the same direction but at 85 mph. When train A catches B, how many laps has each train done total?
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Question 131953: In a family there are two cars. In a given week, the first car gets an average of 25 miles per gallon, and the second car gets 20 miles per gallon. The two cars combined drive a total of 1550 miles in that week, for a total gas consumption of 70 gallons. How many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week?
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Question 132266:
A car and a bus set out a 2 p.m. from the same point, headed in the same direction. The average speed of the car is 30 mph slower than twice the speed of the bus. In two hours, the car is 20 miles ahead of the bus. Find the rate of the car.
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Question 132265: A car and a bus set out a 2 p.m. from the same point, headed in the same direction. The average speed of the car is 30 mph slower than twice the speed of the bus. In two hours, the car is 20 miles ahead of the bus. Find the rate of the car.
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Question 132316: 6. A house is to be connected to a new water main
that runs along the line y=1/2x-4. The connection point at the house has coordinates(1,4), where the units represent metres. What length of plastic pipe is needed to connect to the water main at the closest point? Solve this question algebraically, but a graph could be included, (HINT: the shortest distance between a point and a line is the perpendicular distance).
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Question 132733This question is from textbook 
: A plane whose air speed is 150 mi/h flew from Abbot to Blair in 2 H with a tail wind. On the return trip against the same wind, the plane was still 60 mi from Abbot after two hours. Find the wind speed and the distance between Abbot and Blair.This question is from textbook
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Question 133090This question is from textbook INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA
: The distance traveled h(in meters) by an object thrown downward after t seconds is given by h=5t^2+Vot
where Vo is the inital downward speed (in meters per second, m/s). If and object is thrown downward with an initial speed of 25 m/s from a height of 250 meters, how long does it take the object to hit the ground?This question is from textbook INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA
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Question 133136: The formula d = 0.05s^2 + 1.1s estimates the minimum stopping distance d in feet for a car traveling s miles per hour.
a. a car traveling at 60 miles per hour, how many feet does this car need to safely stop?
b. What is the maximum speed a car can be traveling if it has only 50 feet to stop?
Thank you for your help.
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Question 133233: Can you please verify my answer?
During rush hour, Fernando can drive 35 miles using the side roads in the same time that it takes to travel 30 miles on the freeway. If Fernando's rate on the side roads is 9 mi/h faster than his rate on the freeway, find his rate on the side roads.
I got 63 mi/h
Is this correct?
Thanks so much!
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Question 133300: an accountant rides a bus part of the way to work every day and walks the rest of the way. the bus averages 35mph, and the accountant walks at a speed of 6mph. the distance from home to work is 22 mi, and the total time for the trip is 3hrs. find how far the accountant walks.
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