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Question 242189: if a train travels at 60mph, enters a tunnel 5 miles long, the train is 1 mile in length, how long does the train take to exit the tunnel?
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Question 242148: at noon, car A started to travel at a uniform speed from town X to town Y which was 60KM away from town X. One and a half hours later, car B started to travel at the same uniform speed as car a from town Y to town X. They passed each other at 3P.M. What distance had they each travelled when they passed each other?

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Question 242227: A train takes 24 hours to cover 1200 miles. What is the speed in miles per hour? Also what is it miles per day?
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Question 242265: A boat travels 48 miles in 2 hours with the current (downstream). Against the current (upstream) it took 3 hours to travel the same distance. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current.
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Question 242260: A motorboat can travel upstream 30 miles against the current in one and a half hours. It can travel downstream in three quarters of an hour. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current.
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Question 242202: one car can travel around the track in 10 seconds and the other car in 15 seconds. if both cars start from the same place how long will it take for them to meet at the same place if they continue to race.
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Question 242532: Tyler takes a bus from the police station and heads south at a rate of 35mph. Anthony gets in his car 2 and a quarter hours later and drives in the same direction at a rate of 41 mph. How long will it take anthony to catch up to tylers bus?
is 13 hours and 8 minutes right. Why or why not?
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Question 242666: Two cyclists start biking from a trail's start 3 hours apart. The second cyclist travels at 10 miles per hour and starts 3 hours after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6 miles per hour. How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with the first from the time the second cyclist started biking?... They tell me the answer is 4.5 hours, but I can't figure out how to get there.
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Question 241775: A car traveled from A to B at an average speed of 40 miles per hour and then immediately traveled back from B to A at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. What was the car’s average speed for the round-trip, in miles per hour?
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Question 242833: how long does it take to go 10 metres in a car going 100?
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Question 242866: A duck can fly 2400 m in 10 minutes with the wind. Against the wind, it can fly only 2/3 of this distance in 10 minutes. What is the rate of the wind?

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Question 242865: A boat travels 60 km upstream (against the current) in 5 hours. The boat travels the same distance downstream in 3 hours. What is the rate of the boat in still water
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Question 241737: A plane can fly 540 miles with the wind in one hour less than it can fly 480 miles
against the wind. The average wind speed is 30 miles per hour. Find the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 242726: A transport plane travels five times as fast as an auto. The plane takes 30 minutes less time to travel 500 miles than it takes the auto to travel 125 miles. Find the rate of each.
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Question 242908: A truck driver travels a certain distance at 60 miles per hour and returns over the same road at 40 miles per hour. What is her average rate for the round trip?
I know it is a d=rt but I don't know where to begin. Can Please help by explaining thoroughly.
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Question 242851: the time t that it takes to get to school varies inversely with your average speed v.
(a)If it takes you 40 min to get to school when your average speed is 30mi/h, then express the driving time to school in terms of the average speed.
(b)If your average speed is 40mi/h, how long will it take you to get to school?
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Question 242547: Jake cycled 20 km to the beach. He returned cycling 1 km/h faster. The total time for the round trip was 9 h. Find his rate for each part of the trip.
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Question 242993: My car gets 25 mpg for in-town driving, and 40 mpg on the highway. If I used 51 gallons on a recent 1800 mile trip, how many miles were highway miles?
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Question 243019: I am stuck on this question I hope you can help
Suppose that the kicker for the chargers has a punt that can be modeled by h(t)=-2t^2+200, where its height from the ground can be found based on how many seconds (t) have passed since the kick. Given this how long will it take for the foot ball to hit the ground?
P.s. I can figure out to type in exponents so the 2t^2 is supposed to be 2t squared
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Question 243044: A car is traveling 40mph. At this rate, how many seconds would it take to travel 200 feet?
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Question 243043: a truck can travel 120 miles is the same time that it takes a care to travel 180 miles. if the truck's rate is 20 mph slower than the car's, find the adverage rate of each
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Question 243050: if it takes 36 min. by car and 20 min. by train and the train is traveling 32 miles hour faster than the car how far are you going
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Question 242521: A boat goes 15 miles downstream. The return trip upstream takes 40 minutes longer. The boat can travel 12 miles per hour in still water. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 243143: a train leaves the station traveling west at 50 mph. One hour later a second train leaves the station traveling west on the same track traveling 65 mph. How many hours will it take the second train to crash into the back of the first train
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Question 243205: Driving a marmon Wasp race car, Ray Harroun Compleaded the first 500 miles of the Indy 500 in 1911 in 6.7 houurs.
question. Find harrouns rate in hours per mile.
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Question 243358: I am not sure how to handle this problem I hope you can help me

Cassidy is standing 4 feet (west) in front of a tree. The tree is 10.5 feet high and she is 5 feet tall. Ift he sun casts a shadow from behind the tree (East) and Cassidy how long will its shadow be?
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Question 243379: Leaving home traveling to work which is 10 miles away driving at 40 mile per hour how long will it take to get to work?
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Question 243381: A plane travel 100 kph faster than a train the plane covers 500 km in the same time that train coves 300 km find the speed of each one?
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Question 243386: A car travels 120 km from A to B at 30 km per hour but returns the same distance at 40 km per hour. The average speed for the round trip is closest to
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Question 243397: Three people run a mile. The first person runs the mile in seven minutes. The second person takes 5/4 as long as the first person. How many minutes did it take the third person to run the mile if the average for all three people is eight minutes?
A. 8 B. 8.25 C. 8.5 D. 9 E. 11.4
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Question 243391: Train A is traveling at 60 mph and train B is traveling 80 mph. Train A passes a station at 9:10 pm. If train B passes the same station at 9:25 pm, at that time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 243576: a motorboat took 2 hours to make a downstream trip with a 5mph current. The return trip against the same current took 4 hours. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 243664: frank can row 30 miles down stream in 2 hours and 12 miles upstream in 3 hours. what is the rate he rows in still water and the rate of the current
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Question 243761: How long would it take a jet flying Mach 2.3 or approx. 1,800 mph--to travel 15 miles?
Thanks for your help
John Davis
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Question 243849: a girl ran 41 miles with the wind at her back and then ran 39 miles in the same amount of time with the wind against her. if her pace without any wind is 8 miles/hr, how fast is the wind?
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Question 243919: Judy can bike at 12 mph when there is no wind. Against the wind Judy bikes 8 mph in the same time it takes to bike 14 miles in the wind. Determine the speed
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Question 243615: Two cars leave a city at noon. One car travels north and the other travels east. Suppose the borthbound car is traveling at 60 mph, and the eastbound is traveling at 50 mph. Make a table to show the distance between the 2 cars at 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours and "n" hours. Then, suppose that the northbound car is traveling at 40 mph and after 2 hours, the two cars are 100 miles apart. How fast is the other car going?
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Question 243990: A person runs 3 miles and walks 2 miles. He runs twice as fast as he walks and finishes in exactly one hour. How fast does he walk.
I am completely lost and not sure why. The book gives simply the answer, 3.5 mph. I have:
r = d/t
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Question 244061: A man has eight minutes to catch a train. The train station is 4 miles away. If he travels the first two miles at 20 mph, how fast will he have to drive for the remaining distance?
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