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Question 133442: A boat traveled 210 miles downstream and back. The trip downstream took 10 hours. The trip back
took 70 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water? What is the speed of the current?
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Question 133444: A train averaged 80 km/h for the first half of its trip. How fast must it travel for the second half of the trip in order to average 96 km/h for the whole trip?
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Question 133443: Jet 1 can fly from San Francisco to Dallas in 3 hours. Jet 2 can make the same trip in 3.5 hours. If the two jets leave San Francisco at noon, after how many hours is Jet 2 twice as far from Dallas as jet 1?
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Question 133388: two trains leave a station at the same time,heading in opposite directions.one train is traveling at 80km/h,the other at 90km/h.how long will it take for the trains to be 425km apart?
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Question 133407This question is from textbook
: A car is driven 280 miles. If it had gone 5 mph faster, it could have made the trip in 1 hr less time. what was the speed?This question is from textbook

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Question 133573: Paul and Susan are 725 miles apart and headed straight toward each other. If Paul is traveling at 75 mph and Susan is traveling at 70 mph, how many hours will it be before the two cars are side-by-side?
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Question 133671: City A and VCity B are 440 miles apart. If Jack leaves city A traveling 50 mph and Jill leaves city B traveling 60 mph, how long will they travel if they drive toward each other?
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Question 133743: A motorcycle and a car leave an intersection at the same time. The motorcycle heads north at an average speed of 20 miles per hour, while the car heads east at an average speed of 48 miles per hour. Find an expression for their distance apart in miles at the end of t hours.

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Question 133899: Jennifer drives 400 miles at a certain speed to New York State for a ski vacation. When she returns home, the weather is bad and she drives 10 miles per hour slower and it takes her 2 hours longer. Find Jennifers speed on each part of the trip.
HELP?!?!?! no idea
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Question 133921: Hi The chapter im working on is called Rational Functions. I got this word problem in my homework and did not now how to solve it at all.
Heres the problem
4. The speed of the current in a river is 5 miles per hour. A boat leaves a dock on the bank of the river, travels upstream 25 miles, and returns to the dock in 12 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
Maybe you could help? Thank you

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Question 133857: peter started driving at 4:50 and is driving at an average speed of 30 mi/hr. dina is driving at an average of 40 mi/ hr. and she started driving at 5:20 if they both started driving from the same point, after how many hours would the meet?

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Question 133997: Terry Watkins can row about 10.6 kilometers in 1 hour downstream and 6.8 kilometers upstream in 1 hour. Find out how fast he can row in still water , and find the speed of the current.
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Question 133954: A motorcycle and a car leave an intersection at the same time. The motorcycle heads north at an average speed of 20 miles per hour, while the car heads east at an average speed of 48 miles per hour. Find an expression for their distance apart in miles at the end of t hours.

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Question 134045: A plane travels 1800 miles against a headwind in 4 hours. The return trip, now with a tailwind, takes an hour less. What is the rate of speed of the wind?
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Question 134110: If a 75-degree sector rotates around the center of a cirlce in 75-degree movements, how many sector movements will be needed for the sector to land in its original postition?
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Question 134117: A person traveling 4 hr by plane and 25 hr by ship covers 1580 miles. If the speed of the plane had been one-half the actual speed and the speed of the ship had been 0ne-fourth greater, the person would have traveled only 1315 miles in the same length of time. Find the speeds of the plane and the ship.
Thank you. Totally stump.
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Question 134212This question is from textbook Elementary and intermediate Algebra
: A car is traveling on a road that is perpendicular to a railroad track. When the car is 30 meters from the crossing, the cars new collision detector warns the driver that there is a train 50 meters from the car heading toward the same crossing. How far is the train from the crossing?This question is from textbook Elementary and intermediate Algebra

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Question 134208: A bike and a car leave the same house at 9am. The bike goes 20 mph and car goes 50 mph. The both head north. What time is it when they are 126 miles apart?
I think I can figure this out in my head but not algebraically. So each hr the two movers are 30 more miles apart. So in 4 hrs they are 120 miles apart. The remaining 6 miles would be covered in 1/5 of an hour which is 12 minutes. From 9am 4 hrs and 12 minutes gives you a time of 1:12. Is this correct and is there a better algebraic way to figure it out?
Thank you for your time!
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Question 134237: Kent drives his Mazda 110 miles in the same time that Dave drives his Nissan 100 miles. If Kent averages 5 miles per hour faster then Dave, find their rates?

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Question 134213This question is from textbook Elementary and intermediate Algebra
: A car is traveling on a road that is perpendicular to a railroad track. When the car is 30 meters from the crossing, the cars new collision detector warns the driver that there is a train 50 meters from the car heading toward the same crossing. How far is the train from the crossing?This question is from textbook Elementary and intermediate Algebra

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Question 134362This question is from textbook algebra

: A motorboat has a four-hour supply of gasoline. How far from the marina can it travel if the rate going out against the current is 20mi/h and the rate the rate coming back with the current is 30mi/h?
This question is from textbook algebra

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Question 134351: if i drive for 30min at 45kmh how far have i driven
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Question 134378: when lucy swims with the current, she swims 18km in 2 hours. against the current she can swim only 14km in the same time. how fast can lucy swim in still water? what is the rate of the current?
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Question 134374: A boat travels 60km upstream in 5 hours. The boat travles the same distance downstream in 3 hours. Whatis the rate of the boat in still water? what is the rate of the current?

okay I really tried, but i just can't get it...
s=d/T
s=60/5=12
60/3
12-10=2
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Question 134451: I am looking for help on this textbook example:
Every morning, Yong Yi runs 5 miles, then walks one mile. He runs 6 mph faster than he walks. If his total time yesterday was 45 minutes, the how fast did he run?
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Question 134493: I'm having difficulty with the following problem:
At 9 PM. Lucy started to gallop her horse at 20 miles per hour to catch Edmund, who had a three hour head start. If Lucy was still 30 miles behind at 11 PM, how fast was Edmund riding? Any assistance could be very much appreciated!
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Question 134679: Two planes leave Pittsburgh and Philadelphia at the same time, each going to the other city. One plane flies 30 miles per hour faster than the other. Find the ground speed of each plane if the cities are 260 miles apart and the planes pass one another after 40 minutes of flying time.
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Question 134794: I could really use some help on this word problem.
One airplane flies 80mph faster than another airplane. The first one goes 1500mi in the same time as the second travels 850mi. What is the speed of each?
Thanks for any help,
Richard
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Question 134828: hi
i really need help on this problem from my homework
Going upstream, a rowboat travels at 11km/hr. Going down stream the same rowboat tarvels at 25km/hr. Find the rate of the current and the rate of the rowing in still water.
thanks a bunch
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Question 134996: I do not understand this:
A ball is thrown vertically upward with an initial velocity of 160 feet per second. The distance in feet of the ball from the ground after 1 second is s=160t-16t^2. For what intervals of time is the ball less than 336 above the ground(after it is tossed until it returns to the ground)
Good luck and thanks
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Question 135095: A fire truck is called to a fire at an apartment complex. The fire truck is traveling an average of 35 mph. It will take the fire truck 12 minutes to reach the fire. How far away is the apartment complex?
a) 4 miles
b) 5 miles
c) 6 miles
d) 7 miles
e) 8 miles
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Question 135344: Katy leaves City A for City B at 8 A.M., driving at 52 mi/h. At 10 A.M., Jensen leaves City B for City A, driving at 61 mi/h along the same route. If the cities are 443 mi apart, at what time (P.M.) will they meet?
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Question 135537This question is from textbook
: A student walks and jogs to college each day. The student averages 5km/h walking and 9km/h jogging. The distance from home to college is 8km, and the student makes the trip in 1 hour. How far does the student jog?This question is from textbook

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Question 135593: It takes a driver about 3/4 second to begin braking after seeing something on the road. How many feet does a car travel in that time if it is going 10mi/hr? 20mi/hr? 30mi/hr?
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Question 135541: Mr. Taylor travels 600 miles from pittsburgh to chicago at a certain average speed. If the return trip takes 2 hours less time, what is his average speed from pittsburgh to chicago

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Question 135603: 6(t+2)-4(t-3)=0
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Question 135669: a truck traveling at a constant rate of 45mph .one hour later a car traveling at a rate 60mph same direction on highway.howlong will it take for the car to catch up to the truck, if both vehicles continue in same direction?

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Question 135842: You walk every day as a part of your excersise regimen. Yesterday,you walked 3/4 mile and today you walked 1 1/2 miles. What is the total number of miles that you walked both days?

Any straightfoward and correct help would be much obliged:)
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Question 135904: A car is driven 850 miles. If it had gone 5.0 miles per hour faster it would have made the trip in 2.0hr less time. What was the speed?
So far, I have this:
distance = rate x time
850 = r x t
t = 850/r
850 = (r+5)(t-2)

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Question 135948: What is 18 cm/h an example of?
a. speed
b. velocity
c. acceleration
d. momentum
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Question 135947: A car travels half an hour at 40 km/h. How far does it travel.
a. 10 km
b. 20 km
c. 40 km
d. 80 km
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Question 135945: How many miles per hour do I travel at when traveling at one furlong per fort night?
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