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Question 326162: how many hours would it take to paddle 69 miles down stream on a river
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Question 326282: sammy owns a motor boat that travels 4 miles/hour in still water. It goes 12 miles upstream and 12 miles back again (downstream) in a total of 8 hours. Find the speed of the current of the river.
I need help setting up the equation in proportion form. Thanks!
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Question 326281: sammy owns a motor boat that travels 4 miles/hour in still water. It goes 12 miles upstream and 12 miles back again (downstream) in a total of 8 hours. Find the speed of the current of the river.
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Question 326365: Two buses leave Houston at the the same time and travel in opposite directions, one bus averages 55 mi/h and the other bus averages 45 mi/h. When will they be 400 mi apart?
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Question 326388: Two rockets are launched. The first travels at 9000 mph. Fifteen minutes later the second is launched at 10,000 mph. Find the distance at which both rockets are an equal distance from Earth.
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Question 326459: If a train leaves Salt Lake City going 70 Miles per hour, and another leaves NY going 80 miles per hour, where do they pass each other?
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Question 326529: If Joe drives to work at 30mph and drives home at 50mph. What is his average speed for the round trip? (round to the nearest decimal, it is not 40).
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Question 326606: On a map the distance from Sacramento to San francisco is 8cm. THe legend gives the actual distance as 96 miles. ON the same map,On the same map it is also 7cm from Sacramento to Modesto. What is the actual distance?
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Question 326669: If you drive to a beach that is 90 miles away, spend 5 hours at the beach and then drive home, and if your average driving speed is 45 miles per hour, what is the complete time of your trip that day?
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Question 326609: Brooke walks 2km/hr slower than her older sister Adrianna. If Brooke can walk 12km in the same amount of time that Adrianna can walk 18 km, find their speeds.
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Question 326760: A private airplane leaves Midway Airport and flies due east at a speed of 180 km/hr. two hours later, a jet leaves Midway and flies due east at a speed of 900 km/hr. how far from the airport will the jet overtake the private plane?
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Question 326711: Katy leaves Las Vegas for Los Angeles at 10 AM, driving at 50 mph. At 11 AM, Jensen leaves Los
Angeles for Las Vegas, driving at 70 mph along the same route. If the cities are 260 miles apart,
at what time will they meet?
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Question 326895: A car traveled for ½ h at r mi/h, then increased the speed by 10 mi/h and traveled for 1 1/2 h more. How far did the car go? Express the answer in terms of r
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Question 327068: Bus A runs every 8 minutes, Bus B runs every 10 minutes, and Bus C runs every 12 minutes. If all three buses leave the station at 8:00 a.m., when is the next time all three buses leave the station at the same time?
a.9:00 am
b.10:00 am
c.11:00 am
d.12:00 pm
e.1:00 pm

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Question 326912: Two cars leave City A at the same time to travel to City B. One car travels at 72km/h and the other at 78 km/h. If the slower car arrives 20 minutes after the faster car, how far apart are City A and City B?
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Question 327208: How high was an object if it took 5 seconds to hit the ground after being dropped? h= -16t^2+s
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Question 327219: How high was an object if it took 5 seconds to hit the ground after being dropped? h= -16t^2+s
With the help of solver91311 and the way the equation should look to solve it:
-16(5)^2 + s = 0
I got an answer of 400 feet.
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Question 327192: Which set of equations would be used to solve this word problem?
An airplane flew 4.5 hours with a 45 mph head wind. The return trip with a tail wind of the same speed took 2.5 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air.
a.] None of these systems can be used to solve this problem.
b.] d = 7(r + 45)
c.] d = 4.5(r + 45) and d = 2.5(r − 45)
d.] d = 4.5(r − 45) and d = 2.5(r + 45)
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Question 327245: The speed of a passenger train is 20 mph faster than the speed of a frieght train. The passenger train travels 280 miles in the same time it takes to travel 180 miles. Find the speed of both trains.
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Question 327290: A starts walking along the road at 3 mi/hr.Two hours later B starts at the same direction at 3.5 mi/hr.How far from the starting point will B overtake A?
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Question 327378: You drive 90 miles to a hiking trail, and then take a 5 mile hike. The driving time is 9x that of your walking time. The total time for driving and hiking is 3 hours, find the average rate of driving and the average rate of hiking.

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Question 327486: Hello
The speed of train A is 10mph slower than train B. Train A travels 230 miles in the same time it takes train B to travel 280 miles, find the speed of each train.
The speed of train A =
The speed of train B =

Thank You!
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Question 327420: Two cyclists start biking from a trail's start 3 hours apart. The second cyclist travels at 10mph and starts 3 hours after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6 mph. How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with the first from the time the second cyclist started biking?
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Question 327574: how long will it take to ride my bike 90 miles at 35 mph?
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Question 327654: If a car goes 3/8 of a mile in 19 seconds, what is the speed of the car in miles per hour?

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Question 327687: iceburg lettuce is grown and shipped to stores for about 35 cents a head and sold for 85 cents per head to consumers. What is the percent increase?
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Question 327686: the number 42 is what % of 60?
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Question 327862: Throwing a wrench. An angry construction worker throws
his wrench downward from a height of 128 feet with an
initial velocity of 32 feet per second. The height of the
wrench above the ground after t seconds is given by
S(t)=-16t^2-32t+128
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Question 327879: If a bicyclist rides at 10 miles per hour for 10 minutes, and then speeds up to 20 miles per hour for the next 20 minutes, what is her average speed for this ride?

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Question 327823: this is a physics question....a car travels 35 km west, 90 km north in two hours. What is its average speed?
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Question 327892: A river flows at a rate of 4 km./hr. for the length of its scenic route. In order for a boat to travel the 60 km. upriver and then return in a total of 8 hours, how fast must the boat be able to travel in still water?
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Question 327938: how long does it take to travel 4.25 kilometers travelling at 5 kilometers per hour
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Question 327936: the distance between two towns P and Q is 120 km. A car travelled from P to Q at an average speed of 80km/h. On its return journey, the time taken was 30 minutes shorter. Calculate its average speed for the whole journey
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Question 327944: how long does it take to travel 9.35 kilometers travelling at 5 kilometers per hour
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Question 327974: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STATION ATENA AND STATION BARCENA IS 84 MILES. A TRAIN STARTS FROM ATENA TOWARDS BARCENA. A BIRD STARTS AT THE SAME TIME FROM BARCENA STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE MOVING TRAIN. ON REACHING THE TRAIN, IT INSTANEOUSLY TURNS BACK AND RETURNS BARCENA. THE BIRD MAKES THESE JOURNEYS FROM BARCENA TO THE TRAIN AND BACK TO BARCENA CONTINUOUSLY TILL THE TRAIN REACH BARCENA. THE BIRD FINALLY RETURNS TO BARCENA AND REST. CALCULATE THE TOTAL DISTANCE IN MILES THE BIRD TRAVELS IN THE FOLLOWING CASE:
THE BIRD FLIES AT 80 MILES PER HOUR AND THE SPEED OF THE TRAIN IS 60 MILES PER HOUR.

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Question 328105: #1)Avoiding a collision. 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 328134: If you're driving 40 mph to a lake 60 miles away how many minutes will it take to get there?
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Question 328125: John and William leave their home traveling in opposite directions on a straight road. John drives 20 miles per hour faster than William After 4 hours they are 250 miles apart. Find their rates
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Question 328201: Two cars leave a town and travel in opposite directions. The first car is traveling at 45mpm, the second car is traveling at 55 mph. In how many hours will they be 300 miles apart? If could help with formula also Thank you very much
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Question 328124: John and William leave their home traveling in opposite directions on a straight road. John drives 20 miles per hour faster than William> After 4 hours they are 250 miles apart. Find their rates
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Question 328289: chad drove 3 tinmes as fast as katy pedaled. In fact, chad drove 90 miles in 2 hours less than it took katy to pedal 40 miles. how fast did each of them travel? how long did they travel?
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