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Question 244059: I hope you can help
A car travels 180 miles. A second car, traveling 15 m/h faster than the first car, makes the same trip in 1 hour less time. Find the speed of each car.
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Question 244155: The question is:

"You are traveling on the highway at an average speed of 55 miles per hour. How long will it take you to drive 66 miles?"
I really don't know how to attempt how to do this.
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Question 244181: Morgan ran around a school track in 89 seconds. Taylor ran in 1.32 seconds. Who completed the laps faster and by how much?
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Question 244225: You jog at a speed of 6 miles per hour for 20 minutes, and you
walk at a speed of 4 miles per hour for t minutes. If your combined
jogging and walking distance is 3 miles, for how long did you walk?
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Question 244230: A plane left at 3pm flying west at 450 miles per hour. At 3:30 pm another plane left the same airport flying west at 500 miles per hour. At what time did the second plane overtake the first plane?
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Question 244775: If it takes Maria 30 seconds to travel 90 miles, what is her speed in miles/second?
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Question 244773: If it takes Maria 60 minutes to travel 60 miles,what is her speed in miles/hours?
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Question 244773: If it takes Maria 60 minutes to travel 60 miles,what is her speed in miles/hours?
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Question 244781: Car A and Car B are traveling at 45 mph and 60 mph,respectively.If Car A leaves a depot 40 minutes earlier than Car B,how long will it take Car B to overtake Car A if they both follow the same route?
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Question 244901: at maxium speed,an airplane travels 2100 miles against the wind in 6 hours. Flying with the wind, the plane can travel the same distance in 4 hours.
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Question 244975: A freight train travels 1 mile in 45 seconds. At this rate, how many miles will the train travel in 1 hour?

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Question 245059: How many hours will it take to travel 2400 miles at 60 mph?

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Question 245019: If a jet plane travels 1800 km in 2.5 hours, at this rate how long would it take to travel 2000 km?
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Question 245314: Kay rode his bike from his home to Daniels and walked back home. The total travel time was 45 minutes. If Kay average 20 mph on the bike and 4 mph walking, how far does Daniel live from Kay.
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Question 245414: How mnay hours will it take on a plane to travell 3,000 miles?
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Question 245506: A motorboat travels upstream in five hours and makes the return trip downstream in three hours. If the rate of the stream's current is ten kilometers per hour, find the rate of the boat in still water.
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Question 245700: A car travels at an average if 60 mph for 3 3/4 hours. How far does it travel in this time?
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Question 245710: can you please help me with this word problem:
two motorist set out at the same time to go from A to B, a distance of 100 miles. they both followed the same route and traveled at different, though uniform, speeds of an integral number of miles per hour. the difference in their speeds was a prime number of miles per hour, and after they had been driving for two hours, the distance of the slower car from A was five times that of the faster car from B. how fast did the two motorist drive?
thank you.
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Question 245912: Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parellel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40 miles per hour and train B is traveling at 48 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 11:25pm. If train B passes the same station at 11:55pm, at what time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 245915: driving at 65miles per hour how long will it take to drive 310 miles
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Question 245915: driving at 65miles per hour how long will it take to drive 310 miles
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Question 245998: A carpenter is building a rectangular room with a fixed perimeter of 240 ft. What dimensions would yeild the maximum area? what is the maximum area?
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Question 246029: Differential calculus: Two automobiles start from point A at the same time.one travels west at 60mph and the other travels north at 35 mph. how fast is the distance between them changing 3 hours later.
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Question 246074: If a car travel 120km/hr then how much actual distance it will cover in one hour .
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Question 246090: trains a and b are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. train a is traveling at 40mph and train b is traveling AT 48mph. train a passes a station at 3:20am, train b passes the same station at 3:35am, at what time will train b catch up to train a?
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Question 246075: If a car travel 120km/hr then how much actual distance it will cover in one hour .
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Question 246104: A plane flew for 576 miles directly into a strong wind and then flew back with the same wind. If the total flying time was 5 hours, and the plane's airspeed was 250 mph, what was the speed of the wind?
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Question 246136: if a car is traveling 16mph. how far does it travel in 1 sec?
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Question 246140: a car passes a given point at 30 mph and travels to the next point one mile away what speed does it need to do for the next mile to make an average speed over the entire journey of 60 mph
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Question 246297: Jack and Jim start at the same time to ride from place A to place B, 60 miles away. Jack travels 4miles an hour slower than Jim. Jim reaches B and at once turns back meeting Jack 12 miles from B. The rate of Jack was:
(A)4 mph (B) 8 mph (C) 12 mph (D) 16 mph (E) 20 mph

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Question 246337: a private airplane had been flying for 1 hour when a change of wind direction doubled the plane's average speed. if the entire trip of 384 km took 2.5 hours, how far did the plane travel in the first hour?
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Question 246379: two cars start 100 miles apart. the faster goes 90 mph. the slower goes 60 mph. how far from the starting location of the faster car will they meet? how much time will have passed?
i tried d= rt
distance r(t)
100= (90+60)t
100/150=150/150(t)
.667=t
60 miles =d??
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Question 246511: you are riding your bicycle . it takes you 20 mins to go 5 miles. how long would it take you to cycle 12 miles?
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Question 246512: may you please help me.
if the instructions for cooking a turkey state, "roast turkey at 325 for 20 mintues per poud." how many hours will it take to roast a 20-pound turkey at this temperature?
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Question 246525: a car travels in 270 miles in 4.5 hour. what is the average speed? how far it will go in 7 hours at this average speed?
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Question 246525: a car travels in 270 miles in 4.5 hour. what is the average speed? how far it will go in 7 hours at this average speed?
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Question 246664: A train travels 600 kilometers in the same time that a truck travels 520 kilometers. Find the speed of the train if the train's average speed is 8 kilometers per hour faster than the truck's.
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Question 246675: How fast am i going in my car if i drive sixteen miles in eighteen minutes
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Question 246817: a long distance trucker traveled 168 mi in one direction during a snow storm. the return trip in rainy weather was accomplished at double the speed and took 3 hrs less time, find the speed going
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Question 246882: If you were riding on a bicycle traveling at 10 miles per hour how long would it take you to cover 100 miles?

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Question 246563: Johnny gets to work in 1/2 hour when he drives his car. Riding his bike (by the same route) it takes him 1 hr. His average driving speed is 4.5 mph greater than his average speed on his bike. What is his average speed by car, and by bike? How far does he travel to work?
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