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Question 286821: IF YOU ROW A BOAT UP STEAM AT 4 MPH AND IT TAKES YOU 6 MPH TO ROW DOWN STEAM TO GET BACK. HOW FAR DID YOU TRAVEL
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Question 286858: two buses leave a station at the same time traveling in opposite directions. the rate of the faster bus exceeds that of the slower bus by 10 miles per hour. after 3 hours they are 210 miles apart. what are the rates of the buses
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Question 286909: Train A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40 miles per hour and Train B is traveling is 60 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 11:10PM. If Train B passes the same station at 11:20Pm, at what time will train b catch up to train a?
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Question 286906: I am needing a refresher on word problems, its easy but i am unsure of myself
1. you and a friend take turns driving on a 450 mile trip. your friend drives for 3.5 hours at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. what must your average speed be for the remainder of the trip if you want to reach your hotel in 4 more hours?
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Question 286902: Could you please help me set this word problem up and solve it? I am perplexed.
Paul flies his airplane 280 miles to the Moss County International Airport and picks up a load of bananas. He then flies back home. The trip to the airport was with the wind and the trip home was against the wind. The speed of the wind was 30 mph. If Paul's total flying time was 7 hours, what is the speed of Paul's plane in still air?
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Question 286896: a stream flows at a rate of 4 mph in still water. A boat travels 70mi round trip downstream and back in a total of 6 hours. what is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 286890: you row a boat upsteam at 4 mph, down steam at 6 mph and it takes you 3 hours total, how many miles did you travel in 3 hours
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Question 287188: Stephen had a 10:00 a.m. appointment 60 km from his home. He averaged 80 km/h for the trip and arrived 20 minutes late for the appointment. At what time did he leave his home?
(A) 9:35 a.m. (B) 9:15 a.m. (C) 8:40 a.m. (D) 9:00 a.m. (E) 9:20 a.m.
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Question 287221: If a boat goes downstream 72 miles in 3 hours and upstream 60 miles in 6 hours, the rate of the river and the rate of the boat in still water respectively are ________?
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Question 287299: if the truck takes 3 hours to reach its destination traveling at a constant speed of 50mile per hour ,how long will it take to reach the same location when it travels at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour ?
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Question 287285: Plane 1 can travel 1400 miles in 1 hour less time than it tales plane B to travel 2000 miles. The rate of plane B is 50 miles per hour greater than the rate of plane A. Find the times and rates of both planes.
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Question 287343: Helen traveled a distance of 20x 40
miles at 20 miles per hour on the Yellowhead Highway.
Find a binomial that represents the time that she traveled
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Question 287335: A railroad has a tunnel 5 miles long. A train which is 440 yards long enters the tunnel at 50 miles per hour. How long does it take for the whole train to pass completely through the tunnel?
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Question 287597: On a recent trip I averaged 20 miles per hour for 1 hour,30 miles per hour for 3 hours and 60 miles per hour for 2hours. Measured in miles per hour, which of the following is closest to the average speed for the entire trip?
(a) 36 (b) 37 (c) 38 (d) 39 (e) None of the above
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Question 287641: suppose you could travel 30 miles in 15 seconds, and the circumference of the world is approximately 24,000 miles. How many miles could you travel in 1 hour, and how long would it take to travel the world? (Answers in hours and minutes)
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Question 287668: 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 of the actual speed and the speed of the ship had been one forth greater the person would have traveled only 1315 miles in the same time what is the speed of the plane and ship
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Question 287693: two planes leave the same point at the same time. One plane travels at 252mi/h. The other plane travels at 266mi/h. How long will it take befor they are 1750 miles apart?
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Question 287709: An experienced roofer can roof a house in 26 hours. A beginning roofer needs 39 hours to complete the same job. Find how long it takes for the two of them to do the job together.
This is what i know:
I think I need to use direct or inverse variation equations
This is what I've tried:
y=k/x
26=k/39--Multiple by 39 to get k by itself
1014=k
The back of my textbook says the answer is 15.6 hours

Thank you for your time.
This homework is due tomorrow.
I'm grateful for any help I can get
Thanks again
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Question 287807: If an airplane travel 600mph and a m-16 bullet travels at 2,300ft per sec, which one faster and by hom much?
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Question 287816: how far will you travel if you drive 2.75 hours at 65 miles per hours
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Question 287814: an airplane can fly 390 miles with the wind in the same amount of time it would take to fly 210 miles against the wind. If the plane fly 100 miles per hour is still air, what is the speed of the wind?
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Question 287880: the speed of a passenger train is 20 mph faster than the speed of a freight train. The passenger train travels 330 miles, in the same time it take the freight train to travel 230 miles. Find the speed of each train
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Question 287881: charlie rides her bike at 5 miles per hour her sister leaves 15 minutes later at 8 miles per hour how long will it take her sister to catch up to her
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Question 287922: Ike and Joe ran the same distance but took different routes. Ike ran 3 blocks east and 7 blocks south. Joe ran 4 blocks west and then turned north. How far north did Joe run?
I cannot remember, for the life of me, how to set up and equation for this.
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Question 287904: pat rode 30 miles. bob covered twice distance adding one hour and going five miles faster per hour. what was speed of each
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Question 287945: If 2 and 1/2 inches represent 540 miles, how many miles does 4 inches represent? Find the answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 287997: how many miles is it if the distance was 2.84?
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Question 287905: Jan and Tariq took a canoeing trip, traveling 6 mi upstream against a 2 mi/h current. They then returned to the same point downstream. If their entire trip took 4 h, how fast can they paddle in still water? [Hint: If r is their rate (in miles per hour) in still water, their rate upstream is r - 2 and their rate downstream is r + 2.]

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Question 288054: A----------60m-------------C------40m-------B

Alphonse starts at point A and runs at a constant rate towards point C. At the same time, Brigitte starts at point B and runs towards point C also at
a constant rate. They arrive at C at exactly the same moment. If they continue running in the same directions, Alphonse arrives at B exactly 10 seconds before Brigitte arrives at A. How fast was Brigitte running?
(A) 3 m/s (B) 10/3 m/s (C) 13/3 m/s (D) 5 m/s (E) Not enough information
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Question 288160: I am needing help with this problem. I am totally confused on how to solve this problem.
Two airplanes are leaving O'Hare at the same time, one bound for New York and the other for California. The one heading to California has a tail wind and is thus going 25 MPH faster than the one headed for New York. If after one hour they are 575 miles apart, what are their speeds?

Thanks,
Jen

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Question 288198: Car A and car B both travel 1320 miles. Car A drove at an average speed of 10 miles per hour faster than car B and made the trip in one hour less time. Find the average speeds of both cars.
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Question 288245: If Evangelica can hike 19 miles in 2 days on the appalachian trail , then how many days will it take her to hike 63 miles?.

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Question 288248: trains a and b are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. train a is traveling at 60 mph and train b is traveling at 70 mph. train a passes a station at 2:25 pm. if train b passes the same station at 2:37 pm at what time will train b catch up to train a?
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Question 288304: If a man left a starting line and rode at 24mph for 25 miles. How long would it take another man leaving from the same starting line 1 minute later to catch him traveling 28mph?
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Question 288269: On a 240km trip ,corey ‘s father drove ½ the distance . his mother drove 3/8 of the total distance and corey drove the remaining distance . how many kilometers did corey drive ?
A 150 b 120 c 90 d 30 e 75
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Question 288395: 12. Trains A & B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40 miles per hour and train B is traveling at 44 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 5:15pm. If train B passes the same station at 5:45pm at what time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 288456: If it takes 3 hours to travel 24 miles downstream and 6 hours to travel upstream, how fast is the current if the speed of the boat remains constant?
A 1 mph
B 2 mph
C 3 mph
D 4 mph
thankyou.
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