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Question 302176: A motarboat can maintain a constant speed of 50 mph relative to the water. the boat makes a trip upstream to a certain point in 51 minutes; the return trip takes 49 minutes. what is the speed of the current?
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Question 302206: while driving on a 500 mile trip,Mr smith averages 60 miles per hour for the first t hours.in terms of t,where t < 8,how many miles remain to be traveled ?
a 60t-500
b 500-60t
c 30,000-t
d 500-(60/t)
e 500/60t

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Question 302049: a cellular phone tower services a 20 mile radius. A rest stop on the highway is 5 miles east and 12 miles north of the tower. If you continue driving due east, for how many miles will you be in range of the tower?
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Question 302237: Queen Hatshepsut rode a litter at 2 kilometers per hour for the first part of the journey to the necropolis. She was going to be late, so she changed to a chariot traveling 8 kilometers per hour for the last part of the trip. If the trip was 28 kilometers to the necropolis and the trip took 8 hours, how far did she ride in the litter and how far did she ride in the chariot??
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Question 302429: Smith travels 45 miles going East from the center of the town and Jones travels 70 miles going West from the same point. If Jones averages 5 miles per hour more than Smith and his trip took ½ hour longer than Smith’s. How fast was each of them traveling?
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Question 302571: A passenger train can travel 240 miles in the same amount of time it takes a freight train to travel 160 miles. If the rate of the freight train is 20 miles per hour slower than the rate of the passenger train, find the average rate of each.
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Question 302587: If a train is leaving San Fransico, eastbound at a rate of 35 mph, and another train is leaving Boston, westbound at a rate of 40 mph, where will they meet?
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Question 303028: Driving marathon. Felix drove 800 miles in x hours on Monday.
a) Write a rational expression for his average speed.
b) On Tuesday he drove for 6 hours at the same average speed. Write a rational expression for his distance on Tuesday.

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Question 303203: If a truck is traveling 40mph. How long will it take to travel 13 miles
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Question 303296: A family makes a 43.25 km trip in 5.5 hours. On the first part of the trip they crossed a lake in a canoe paddling at 12 km/h. For the rest of the trip, they hiked on a scenic trail. If their average walking speed was 5 km/h, how far did they walk?
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Question 303501: at 2:00 p.m. a runner heads north on a highway jogging at 10mph. at 2:30 p.m. a driver heads north on the same highway to pick up the runner. if the car travels at 55 mph, how long will it take the driver to catch the runner?
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Question 303512: at 2:00 p.m. a runner heads north on a highway jogging at 10 mph. at 2:30 p.m. a driver heads north on the same highway to pick up the runner. if the car travels at 55 mph, how long will it take the driver to catch the runner?
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Question 303581: A person walked 8 miles west and 3 miles north. to the nearest mile how many miles is he from his starting point? thanks
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Question 303595: a car travels 2 3/4 hours at an average speed of 60 km/hour and then for 2 1/4 hours at an average speed of 80km/hour. whats is the average speed of the whole journey?
i have worked out:
2 3/4 hours= 2 hours, 45 mins
2 1/4 hours= 2 hours and 15 mins
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Question 303597: At 9:00 A.M. Paul starts driving from Alphaville to Betaburg at 40 km/hour. Sometime later, Nabil leaves Betaburg and drives at 60 km/hour. They meet at the half-way point between the cities at 1:00 P.M. At what time did Nabil start driving?
(A) 10:00 AM (B) 10:40 AM (C) 11:00AM (D) 11:20AM (E) None of these
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Question 303692: If a runner runs at 12 km/h for 5 hours, what was the distance the runner traveled?
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Question 303886: Jane took 10 minutes to drive her boat upstream to water ski at her favorite spot. Coming back later in the day, at the same boat speed, it took her five minutes. If the current in that part of the river is 5 km per hour, what was her boat speed in still water?
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Question 304053: Two cars leave town traveling in opposite directions at 50 km/h and 40 km/h. In how many hours will they be 300 km apart?
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Question 304035: In 8 hours, two campers rowed 15 miles down a river and then rowed back to their campsite. The rate of the river's current was 1 mph. Find the rate at which the campers row in calm water.
What I know is that it was 8 hours total and it took 15 mi there and back.
Please help! I've been trying to solve it for now an hour and 31 minutes.
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Question 304170: If i'm going 75 mph and it takes my 13 hrs./ 780 minutes, how many miles would I have drove?
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Question 304330: 715 is to 990 as what is to 850?
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Question 304549: While hiking the Peralta Trail to Wheeler’s Needle and back, Rick spent 60% of his time walking uphill to Wheeler’s Needle and 40% of his time returning by the same trail. If he averaged 2 miles per hour uphill, what was his average speed for the round-trip?
A. 2 1/3 mph B. 2.25 mph C. 2.4 mph D. 2.5 mph E. 2.6 mph
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Question 304523: While hiking the Peralta Trail to Wheeler’s Needle and back, Rick spent 60% of his time walking uphill to Wheeler’s Needle and 40% of his time returning by the same trail. If he averaged 2 miles per hour uphill, what was his average speed for the round-trip?
A. 2 1/3 mph B. 2.25 mph C. 2.4 mph D. 2.5 mph E. 2.6 mph

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Question 304633: a car traveling at 10 m/s starts to decelerate steadily It comes to a complete stop in 20 seconds. What is its acceleration?
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Question 304661: You have four horses, all of which travel at different speeds. In traveling from point A to point B, these horses take one, two, four and six hours respectively.
One day you decide to move all your horses from point A to point B. However, you can only move a maximum of two horses at a time, and you need to ride a horse back to point A each time you return to move your other horses. Knowing you can only move as fast as the slowest horse you’re traveling with, what is the fewest number of hours it will take to complete your move?

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Question 304585: how many hours to travel 69 km
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Question 304487: Train A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40mph and train B is traveling at 48 mph. Train A passes a station at 7:20am. If Train B passes the same station at 7:35am, at what time will train B catch up with train A?
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Question 304756: Airplane P and airplane Q fly along parallel paths each 3,000 miles long. If they start at the same time and if P flies at a constant speed of 600 miles per hour and Q flies at a constant speed of 580 miles per hour , how many miles will Q have left to fly after P completes its flight ?
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Question 304959: 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?
please give a complete step by step answer to this question - Thank You
I last took algebra in college back in the early 90s, so I know how to tackle the questions but I don't remember the correct way to solve many of the algebra questions I am facing. I am reviewing for the TEAS nursing aptitude entrance exam so, it very important that I review and re-master my weak subject areas like higher-math and Algebra specifically.
Thanks for you help in advance and I look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Matt
mcpcot@hotmail.com
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Question 304987: The stopping distance of a car is the number of feet that the car travels after the Driver starts applying the brakes. The stopping distance of a certain car is directly Proportional to the square of the speed of the car, in miles per hour, at the time the brakes are first applied. If the car’s stopping distance for an initial speed of 20 miles per hour is 17 feet, what is its stopping distance for an initial speed of 40 miles per hour?
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Question 305320: Joe traveled against the wind in a small plane for 3 hr. The return trip with the the wind took 2.8 hr. Find the speed of the wind if the speed of the plane is still air is 180 mph.
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Question 305311: a man starts a journey at 30 miles/hour. Another starts 30mins after. at what speed must he move to catch up with him in 3hours?
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Question 305484: 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 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 305491: Is this solvable?
A car travels with uniform speed. If it would have traveled 10 km/h faster, it would reach the destination 2 hours earlier and if it would have traveled 10km/h slower, it would reach the destination 3 hours later. What is the distance covered by car.
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Question 305507: at cruising speed, and airplance flew 500 kilometers with the wind in the same amount of time it took on fly 400 kilometers against the wind. if the constant speed of the wind is 20kph, what is the cruising speed of the airplane
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Question 305701: at cruising speed, and airplane flew 500 kilometers with the wind in the same amount of time it took to fly 400 kilometers against the wind. if the constant speed of the wing is 20kph, what is the cruising speed of the airplane?
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Question 305798: Amy drove 200 miles to New Orleans at an average speed of 10 miles per hour faster than her usual speed. If she completed the trip in 1 hour less than usual, what is her usual driving speed, in miles per hour.
Solve: 200/r+10 = (200/r)-1
Book says the answer is 40
How do you simplify the above equation and solve for 40?
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Question 305917: one car travels 300 miles while a car going ten miles faster travels 350. How fast is the first car going?
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Question 306021: an airplane made a 2040km trip with the wind in 4 hours. The trip against the wind took an hour longer. Find the rate of the plane in still air and the velocity of the wind?
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Question 306035: An airplane traveled 1,000 miles in 2 hours and 30 minutes.What was the average rate or speed,in miles per hour for the trip?
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Question 306022: two cars begin driving from the same point in opposite directions. The firwst car travel at an average of 58m/h. the seconf car drives 67m/h. How many minutes will it take for the cars to be 100 miles apart?
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