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Question 290878: i drove 240 miles in 4.8 hours at that rate how long would it take to drive 100 miles?
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Question 291068: Jackson is on Spring Break for his school which is Memphis, Tennessee. He is planning on visiting his two brothers and their sister. He will be traveling by air. If he leaves Memphis, Tennessee International airport and stop at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma airport, how long will it for Jackson to arrive if he is traveling at a ground speed of 380km/hr? There in Oklahoma he will visit with his older brother for two hours and get back onto another plan that will take him to El Paso, Texas. In Texas he will land at the Biggs Field airport. He will only visit for an hour with his other brother and back onto a plane to Las Vegas, Nevada to stay with his sister until break is over. The two planes’ ground speed was 310km/hr. How long will the trip take before Jackson will see his sister?
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Question 291097: Juniors boat will go 15 miles per hour in still water. If he can go 12 miles downstream in the same amount of time as it takes to go 9 miles upstream, then what is the speed of the current?
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Question 291595: the current of a river is 3 miles per hour . the speed of a motor boat going downstream is 1 2/3 times as fast as going upstream. it takes the motor boat a total of 2 hours 40 minutes to make a round trip between A and B; A and B are positions in the river . find the distance between A and B in miles
A 17 2/3 b 15 c 13 3/4 d 12 e 10 2/5

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Question 291610: Please let me know if I did this right.....Rowland and Martin are enjoying the lake on a still day. They leave buoy 16 in their boats traveling in opposite directions. Martin's speed is 40 mph and Rowland's is 50 mph. In how many hours will they be 225 miles apart? let x=hours apart,50x+40x=225,90x=225,225/90=2.5,x=2.5 hours

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Question 291683: charles started a trip by car averaging 49 miles per hour samantha started a trip by car from the same place and in the same direction averaging 51 miles per hour if samantha left 24 mintues later how long will it take samantha to catch up to charles
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Question 291816: if a bus is going 500 miles at 10 mile per hour how many hours did the bus travel?
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Question 291849: CARLOS'S AVERAGE DRIVING SPEED FOR A 4 HOUR TRIP WAS 50 MILES PER HOUR. DURING THE FIRST 2 HOURS, HE DROVE 60 MILES PER HOUR. WHAT WAS HIS AVERAGE DRIVING SPEED FOR THE LAST 2 HOURS OF THE TRIP?
I DON'T KNOW THE STEPS IN SOLVING THIS PROBLEM. PLEASE HELP!
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Question 291925: A car traveled 5 miles in 6 minutes. What was its speed in miles per hour?

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Question 292100: 124 miles in 2 hours...what is the average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 292117: The perimeter of the state
of Wyoming is 1280 mi. The width is 90 mi less than
the length. Find the width and the length.
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Question 292235: A. Two cars leave town at the same time going in opposite directions. One travels at 50 mph and the other at 40 mph. In how many hours will they be 200 miles apart?

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Question 292227: Two trains going in opposite directions leave at the same time. Train B travels 5 mph faster than train A. In six hours the trains are 630 miles apart. Find the speed of each.
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Question 292296: i know the basic setup of the problem, but i don't know how to simplify the 4 hours and 30 minutes, i always come up with long decimal answers. please help.
two cars leave a city on the same road, one driving 12 mph faster than the other. After 4 hours, the car traveling faster stops for lunch. After 4 hours and 30 minutes the car traveling slower stops for lunch. Assuming that the person in the faster car is still eating lunch, the cars are now 24 miles apart. How fast is each car driving?
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Question 292393: A person drives to a tennis match at 48mph and returns home at 54mph. If the total driving time was 17 hours, how far away is the match?
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Question 292418: two racers 15 miles apart start at the same time traveling in the same direction. after 6 hrs, the faster racer overtakes the slower. if they had traveled toward each other they would have met after 2 hrs. find the rate of each
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Question 292396: Cleaning service number 1 can clean a certain office building in 30 hours, while the cleaning service number 2 can clean the same building in 20 hours. If the two companies work together, how long would it take to clean the building?
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Question 292485: a jet made a 3600 mile trip from san francisco to washington dc in 4 hours, 52 min. on a return trip from washington dc to san francisco the flight took 8 hours 11 min. if the plan flew at the same rate going both directions how fast did the plane fly and what is the wind speed?

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Question 292547: if an object free falls through the air for 45 seconds how far has it trveled?
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Question 292592: A car is traveling on a road that
is perpendicular to a railroad track. When the car is
30 meters from the crossing, the car’s new collision
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 292708: in heavy trafic it took bill 3hours to drive to work in the morning .she drove at 35mph. At lunch she drove at 45mph back home. she left at 12:02 when will she reach home
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Question 292597: using the butterfly stroke to swim the lenght of the pool, Mark averaged 1.5 meters per second.Swimming back, he used the breast stroke and averaged 1.2 meters per second. the entire swim took 1 minute and 15 seconds. how long is the pool?

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Question 292740: An airplne flew for 4 hours with a 20 km/hour tail wind. The return flight against the same wind took 5 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air.
I am having trouble finding the distance flown to figure out the answer.
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Question 292785: To calculate the speed at 48 minutes for 8 miles?
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Question 292907: A car takes 11 hours to go 660 miles. What is its rate of speed in miles per hour?
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Question 292941: The distance traveled by an object moving in a straight line is given by S= t^2-2t, where S is in feet and t is the seconds the object has been in motion. How long (to the nearest tenth) will it take the object to move 15 ft
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Question 293023: The tip of the minute hand of a clock is 2 inches from the center of the clock. Find the distance traveled by the tip of the minute hand for the duration of 3 hours.
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Question 293021: The tires of a bicycle have radius 12 inches and are turning at the rate of 180 revolutions per minute. How far is the bicycle traveling in miles per hour? (Hint: 5280 ft=1mile)
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Question 293132: Jesse is traveling at a speed of 105mi/h. What is his speed in feet per second?
Step by step Please
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Question 293132: Jesse is traveling at a speed of 105mi/h. What is his speed in feet per second?
Step by step Please
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Question 293141: Train A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling 60 miles per hour and Train B at 80 mile per hour. Train A passes a station at 8:20am, if train B passes the same station at 8:35am, at what time will train B catch up to train A?
When will train B catch up with train A?______
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Question 293183: A train travels 120 miles in 3 1/2 hours. What is the trains rate of travels.
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Question 293183: A train travels 120 miles in 3 1/2 hours. What is the trains rate of travels.
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Question 293147: If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 pm, how many miles apart will they be at 3:00pm if one travels directly north at 150mph and the other travels directly west at 200 mph?
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Question 293156: a car driving in fog passed a man walking at 3km\hr in a same direction. he could see the car for 4 minute and up to a distance 100 meter
.what was speed of the car?
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Question 293311: walking and running. On Saturday morning, Lynn walked
for 2 hours and then ran for 30 minutes. If she ran twice as
fast as she walked and she covered 12 miles altogether,
then how fast did she walk?
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Question 293380: A train running at the speed of 90 km/hr crosses a platform of length 160 m in 10 seconds. What is the length of the train (in metres)?
(a) 60 (b) 90 (c) 150 (d) 140 (e) 40

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Question 293497: If a car is ging 80 miles per hour how fast would the fly be going

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Question 293527: A boar travels at a speed of 20Mph in still water. It travels 48 miles upstream and then returns to the starting point in a total of 5 hours. Find the speed of the current.
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Question 293663: If I bike 3.6 miles in 20 minutes, is my speed 18 mph?
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Question 293749: an assistant receives a 3% raise, bringing the salary to $45,484. What was the salary before the raise
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Question 293837: in a stream running at 2 km per hour, a motor boat goes 6 km up stream back again to the starting point in 33 minutes. what is the speed of the motor boat in still water?
a) 20 km per hour
b) 18 km per hour
c) 22 km per hour
d) 24 km per hour
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Question 293885: a moving car is m metres from a man with a stopwatch after t seconds. the distance away can be calculated from the formula m = 55t + 12 how far is the car from the man after 6 seconds

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Question 293807: Two Joggers, one averaging 9 mph and one averaging 5 mph, start from a designated initial point. The slower jogger arrives at the end of the run 15 minutes after the other jogger. Find the distance of the run.
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