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Question 167082: a boat traveled 336 miles downstream and back. the trip downstream took 12 hours. the trip back took 14 hours. what is the speed of the boat in still water?

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Question 167105: On a baseball field, the distance from home plate to the pitcher’s mound is 60 1/2 feet. The distance from home plate to second base is about 127 7/24 feet. What is the difference between the two distances?
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Question 167096: Mrs Dang drove her daughter to school at the average speed of 45 miles per hour. she returend home by the same route at the average speed of 30 miles per hour. if the trip took one half hour, how long did it take to get to school?, how far is the school from their home?
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Question 167150: if a car is traveling\90 mph, how long will it take to go two miles
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Question 167095: Nolan walked to the store from his home at the rate of 5 miles per hour. after spending one half hour in the store,his friend gave him a ride home at the rate of 30 miles per hour. he arrived home 1 hour and 5 minutes (1 1/12) after he left. how far is the store from nolans home?

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Question 167161: A rock is thrown upward from the ground with an initial velocity of 96 feet per second. The equation giving the height above the ground is h=96t-16t^2, h is the height in feet and t is the number of seconds after the rock is thrown.
a. Find the number of seconds when the rock is 80 feet above the ground.
b. Find the number of seconds until the rock hits the ground again.
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Question 167196: Two trains depart simultaneously from a station, traveling in opposite directions. One averages 8 km/h more than the other, and after a 1/2 hour they are 100 km apart. Determine the speed of each train.
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Question 167225: An express train travels 600 miles in the same amount of time it takes a freight train to travel 360 miles. The rate of the express train is 20 miles an hour faster than that of the freight train. Find the rate of each train.
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Question 167224: There is a one mile oval track. The car goes around the track the first time at 30 mph. How fast must he go on his second lap to bring his second lap average up to 60 mph?
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Question 167244: if you travel 50mph for 2.3 hours how far will you go
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Question 167325: Jason can run 7 3/7 miles in one hour. How long will it be take Jason to run nine laps on the schools 402 mile track?.
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Question 167344: On a round trip of 350 miles in each direction, Joseph averaged 10mph more returning than he did going. If the return trip took 4 hours less time, find the time for each direction.
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Question 167374: At the beginning of a walk, juanita and roberto are 7.7 miles apart. If they leave at the same time and travel in the same direction roberto will overtake juanita in 11 hours. If they walk towards eachother they will meet in 1 hour. What are their speeds?
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Question 167160: Roma Sherry drove 330 miles from her hometown to Tucson. During her return trip, she was able to increase her speed by 11 mph. If her return trip took 1 hour less time, find her original speed and her speed returning home.
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Question 167421: If Train A & Train B are traveling the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is going 60 MPH, Train B is going 80 MPH. Train A passes a station at 12:20 PM. If Train B passes the same station at 12:32 PM, what time will Train B catch up to Train A?
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Question 167431: Luis wanted to throw an apple to Kim, who was on a balcony 40ft above him, so he tossed it upward with an intial speed of 56ft/s. Kim missed it on the way up, but then caught it on the way down. How long was the apple in the air?
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Question 167498: The Yankee Clipper leaves the pier at 9:00am at 8 knots(nautical miles per hour).A hakf hour later,The Riverboat Rover leaves the same pier in the same direction traveling at 10 knots.At what time will The Riverboat Rover overtake The Yankee Clipper?
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Question 167461: Dick's motorboat can make an average 8 miles an hour. One day he sets out for a trip, only to have the motor break down. Dick rows back at 2 miles an hour. When he reaches his dock, he finds that he has been gone for 5 hours. How far has he rowed?
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Question 167469: Help!
At the Indianapolis 500, Carter and Daniels were participants. Daniels'motor blew after 240 miles, and Carter was out after 270 miles. If Carter's average rate was 20mph more than Daniels, and their total time was 3 hours, how fast was each averaging?
Thank you for your help, whichever kind person answers my question!
Lauren
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Question 167614: Two planes start from the same airport and fly in opposite directions. The second plane starts 45 minutes after the first plane, but travels 50mph faster than the first plane. Find the speed of each plane if, 2 hours and 15 minutes after the first plane takes off, the planes are 2325 miles apart.
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Question 167644: The period of a pendulum is the amount of time it takes for the pendulum to complete one swing, returning to its original position. A pendulum's period varies directly as the square root of the pendulum's length and inversely as the square root of the acceleration due to gravity. Assuming the acceleration due to gravity is 980 cm/s^2, we find that the period is 6π seconds when the length is 289cm. What is the pendulum's period when its length is 121cm? ---> I was thinking P = period, L = length, A = acceleration, so the formula would be , but everything just isn't quite coming out right to me. Help, please!
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Question 167652: a motorboat heads upstream for a distance of 24 miles on the Illinois River, whose current is running at 3mph. the trip up and back takes a total of 6 hours. assuming that the boat maintained a constant speed relative to the water, what is this constant speed? -- i've never been great at calculus word problems, thank u for all the help.
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Question 167772: Two cars that are 375 miles apart and whose speeds differ by 5 miles per hour,
are moving toward each other. They will meet in hours. What is the speed of each car?

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Question 167843: Two bike riders left each other and started to ride in opposite directions. Two hours later they were 54 miles apart. If one of them averaged twice the average rate of the other what was the rate of each?
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Question 167839: If you average 30mi/h, a drive between two cities will take 2 hours longer than if you average 35mi/h. How far apart are the two cities?
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Question 167886: In 1977, two spacecraft named voyager 1 and 2 were launch to visit the outer planets in 1980's. These spacecraft traveled so far they left the soler system. Voyager 2 is traveling at 58 000km/h and 296 000 years from now it will reach Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. How far away is Sirius?
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Question 167934: At 1:30 a plane leaves tuscon for baltimore, a distance of 2240 miles. The plane flies at 280mph. A second plane leaves at 2:15 and is schedules to land in baltimore 15 minutes before the first plane. At what rate must the second air plane travel to arrive on schedule.
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Question 168113: The bus headed north at 40 mph at 10 a.m. At noon the Orange Blossom Special headed south from the dame station at 70 mph. What time was it when the train and the bus were 960 miles apart?
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Question 168236: Trisha ran to the park and then walked home. It took her 1/2 hour to run to the park, and 1 hour and 20 minutes to walk home. If she runs 5 miles an hour faster than she walks, how far does she live from the park?
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Question 168242: The speed of a wave varies jointly with the wavelength and the frequency of the wave. If the speed of a wave is 20 feet per second, its wavelength is 50 feet and its frequency is 0.4 waves per second. What is the speed of a wave whose wavelength is 1 foot and whose frequency is 8 waves per second?
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Question 168244: An eagle can fly 35 kilometers faster than a hummingbird. In the same amount of time, an eagle can fly 8.5 kilometers and a hummingbird can fly 5 kilometers. How fast can each bird fly?
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Question 168250: Two bike trails have a total length of 20 miles. If the product of the length of the trails is 91, find the length of each trail.
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Question 168351: 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 collison detector warns the driver that there is a train 50 meters from the car and heading toward the same crossing. How far is the train from the crossing?
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Question 168362: With the lid closed, a "take out" box used by a restaurant has a volume of 121 cubic inches. Its length l equals its width w. A strip of tape is wrapped around the box to keep it closed. The length of the tape measures 20 inches, which is 1 inch more than the shortest distance around the box. Find the dimenstions of the box.
I would really appreciate all steps as I know he will have this on an exam and I want to be able to show all the work.
Thank you for the time you take to help me out.
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Question 168359: A metra commuter train leaves Union Station in Chicago at 12 noon. Two hours later, an amtrak train leaves on the same track, traveling at an average speed that is 50 mph faster that the metra train. At 3 pm, the amtrak train is 10 miles behind the commuter train. How fast is each going?
And how did i conclude this answer?
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Question 168412: The distance traveled (in meters) by the Oregon slug can be modeled by the function f(t)=0.8t, where t is the time in minutes. Find the distance traveled in 6.7 minutes
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Question 168469: A man walks at a pace of 3 miles per hour. After 2 hours he stops for a rest. Let t be time AFTER the rest when he continues on his walk. Let d be the TOTAL distance traveled since he started. Write an equation linking d and t.
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