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Question 317570: Two trains leave towns 1332 km apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One train travels 20 km/hr slower than the other. If they meet in 6 hours, what is the rate of each train?
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Question 317587: An airplane travels 2277km against the wind in 3 hours and 2667km with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 317767: How fast would you be going, if you traveled 917 feet in 20 seconds from a dead stop
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Question 317793: a motorboat can maintain a constant speed of 16 mile per hour relative to the water. the boat makes a trip upstream to a certain point in 20 minutes; the return trip takes 15 minutes. what is the speed of the current?
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Question 317803: A car traveled at an averge speed of 50 miles per hour for a trip of 225 miles . how long did the trip take ?

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Question 317841: how much tme it will take to travel 400 feet distance at road at a speed of 45mph.

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Question 317855: A student walks and jogs to college each day. she averages 5km/h walking and 9km/h jogging. The distancefrom home to college is 8km and she makes the trip in 1 hour. How far does the student jog?
I can't seem to get it set up right to get the correct calculation. I used 5km(X) +9 km(y) = 8km.

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Question 317878: I need help finding the equation
The altitude of the peak of Mt. Everest is 29,028 feet. The world’s greatest known ocean depth of -36,201 feet was recorded in the Marianas Trench. How many feet above the bottom of the Marianas Trench is a climber who has reached the top of Mt. Everest?

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Question 317924: a car driving at 55 miles per hour. The car give you 11 kilometers in in one liter of gas. How much gas we need to cover a trip for three hours

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Question 317966: James is driving a boat at 20mph. He drove against the current for 2 hours. James drove the with the current for 1 hour. How fast was James traveling in still water?
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Question 318242: a car travels 1 mile in 75 seconds, at this rate how many miles will the car travel in a one hour ?
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Question 318287: A car traveled for 1/2 hour at "r" mi/h, then increased the speed by 10 mi/h and traveled for 1 1/2 hours more. How far did the car go? (Express answer in terms of "r").
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Question 318312: On a road trip they drove 55 miles per hour to California, on the way home they drove 65 miles per hour. How many miles did they drive on the way to California if the round trip took 10 hours?
I know it's D = RxT, so I plug in 55 and 65 as rate and is time 60?...I'm totally lost...
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Question 318343: The speed of a stream is 4 km/h. A boat travels 6 km upstream in the same time it takes to travel 12 km downstream. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 318359: A tank can be filled using pipes A, B, or both. It takes pipe A, running alone, 18 hours to fill the tank. It takes both pipes, running together, 9.9 hours to fill the tank. How long does it take pipe B, running alone, to fill the tank?
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Question 318285: Two cars leave City A at the same time to travel to City B. One car travels at 72 km/h and other at 78 km/h. If the slower car arrives 20 min. after the faster car, how far apart are City A and City B?
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Question 318574: It takes Rob 3 hours to do a job. It takes Tim 5 hours to do the same job. If Rob and Tim worked together, how long would it take them? Please advise. Thank you.

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Question 318570: david runs 4 miles in 30 minutes. At the same rate, how many would he run in 18 minutes?
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Question 318573: soybean meal is 12% protein cornmeal is 6% protein. how many pounds of each should be mixed together to get 240 lb mixture tht is 8% protein?
pounds of cornmeal in mixture [160 lbs.]
pounds of soybean in mixture [80 lbs.]
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Question 318567: soybean meal is 12% protein;cornmeal is 6% protein. how many pounds of each should be mixed together to inorder to get 240 lbs mixture tht is 8% protein.
cormeal 160 pounds in mixture
soybean 80 pounds in mixture
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Question 318566: Train A and B are traveling parallel. Train a is traveling 100 miles per hour and tain b is traveling at 125 miles per hour. train a passes the statin at 7:10 pm and train b passes at 7:22 pm. waht time will train b cath up to train a?
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Question 318616: how many feet would it take a 70 thousand pound truck traveling at 45 miles an hour to stop?
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Question 318611: If you drove for 200 hours at 65 miles per hour how many miles did you travel?
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Question 318611: If you drove for 200 hours at 65 miles per hour how many miles did you travel?
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Question 318629: How many miles do you cover in 15 minutes driving 40 mph?
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Question 318630: How many miles will you cover in 25 minutes driving 45 mph?
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Question 318694: If a car travels 1/100 of a kilometer each second, how many kilometers does it travel per hour?
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Question 318694: If a car travels 1/100 of a kilometer each second, how many kilometers does it travel per hour?
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Question 318787: A pontoon boat moves 6 km/h in still water. It travels 30 km upriver and 30 km downriver in total time of 18 hrs. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 318835: A projectile is fired from the ground with an upward speed of 245 m/s. After how many seconds will it return to the ground? Use the formula h = vt - 4.9t^2.
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Question 318786: Trey's boat travels 24 km/h in still water. He motors 150 km downstream in the same time it takes to go 90 km upstream. What is the speed of the river?
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Question 318868: Please help me solve how many seconds it will take a car going 45 mph to travel 420 feet. Thank you!
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Question 318868: Please help me solve how many seconds it will take a car going 45 mph to travel 420 feet. Thank you!
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Question 318868: Please help me solve how many seconds it will take a car going 45 mph to travel 420 feet. Thank you!
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Question 318817: If I'm going somewhere that is 0.8 miles away and is approximately a 1 minute drive, how long would it take to walk at a normal pace? Obviously longer than the one minute it would to drive, but I'd like to know.
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Question 318957: A jet plane traveling 550mph overtakes a small plane traveling at 180 mph that had a 1hr headstart.
how far from the starting positions are the planes?
Distance problem
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Question 319079: If 300 mile trip takes an average of 5 hours, how long would a 495 mile trip take? Show your step by step work! Include units with your solution
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Question 319029: Sylvia walked to Cathy's house at 2km/h, and then rode a bicycle back to her own house at 10km/h. The entire trip took 3 hours. How long a time did Sylvia walk?

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Question 319106: How many feet would it take a vehicle to stop if the vehicle was traveling 40 miles per hour?
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Question 319102: If a vehicle is traveling 40 miles per hour, how many feet would it take for the vehicle to stop?
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Question 319102: If a vehicle is traveling 40 miles per hour, how many feet would it take for the vehicle to stop?
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Question 319100: Peter and John started running a 2-mile course at 1:15 p.m. Peter finished at 1:30 p.m. If John's average speed was 3/4 of Peter's average speed, at what time did John finish running the course?
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Question 319074: Joe ran up a path to the top of a hill at an average speed of 2 mph and ran down the same path at an average speed of 8 mph. If Joe ran up and down the hill in 1 hour, what was the total distance that he ran, in miles?
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Question 319143: A car travels at a speed of 20 mph over a certain distance and then returns over the same distance at a speed of 30 mph. What is the average speed for the total journey?
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