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Question 328302: the distance between Dharamsal and delhi is 529 kms. if you have to reach there in 11 hours from the time you start then at what speed you have to drive your car.
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Question 328336: Two planes leave Newark Airport at the same time. The rate of speed of the northbound plane is 100 mils per faster than that of the Southbound plane. At the end of 5 hrs, the planes are 2000 mils apart. Find the rate of each.
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Question 328338: two planes leave newark airport at the same time. The rate of speed of the northbound plane is 100 mils per hour.,than that of the southbound plane. at the end of 5 hours, the planes are 2000 miles apart. Find the rate of each?
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Question 328280: ortiz travels twice as fast as his brother and therefore makes the 350 mile trip back home in 5 hours less less time. how fast does each drive,and how long does each travel?
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Question 328282: seven times the larger number is 8 more than four times the smaller. also, three times the smaller is 19 less than twice the larger. what are the numbers?
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Question 328366: the speed of a passenger train is 6 mph faster than the sppeed of a freight train. the passenger train travels 300 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 270 miles. find the speed of each train.
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Question 328290: three times the number twice of blue marbles exceeds twice the number of red marbles by 18. Also 5 times the number of blue marbles if 2 less than 6 times the number of red marbles. how many of each are there?
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Question 328411: An airplane took 2.5 hours to fly 625 miles with the wind. It took 4 hours and 10 minutes to make the return trip against the same wind. Find the wind speed and the speed of the plane in still air. (Show all work)
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Question 328528: use the discriminant to determine the number of x-intercepts for each quadratic function
f(x) = 3x^2 - 5x +1
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Question 328546: a baseball player hit a ball straight up in the air it left the bat with a speed of 120km/hr. how fast will the ball be traveling when the catcher catches it(no air resistance
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Question 328695: How long will it takes a bus to travel a distance of 90 kilometer as a speed of 25 kilometer per hour?
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Question 328695: How long will it takes a bus to travel a distance of 90 kilometer as a speed of 25 kilometer per hour?
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Question 328732: in the rafting situation, a boat goes 30 kilometer downstream in 75 minutes and the same distance up stream in 90 minutes, calculate the speed of the stream in kilometer per hour.
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Question 328759: The average radius R of the orbit of a planet around the sun is determined by R = T2/3, where T is the number of years for one orbit and R is measured in astronomical units (AU). If it takes Pluto 248.53 years to make one orbit of the sun, then what is the average radius of the orbit of Pluto? If the average radius of the orbit of Neptune is 30.08 AU, then how many years does it take Neptune to complete one orbit of the sun?

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Question 328806: What is the speed of a plane that travels at a rate of 500mph against a wind of r mph
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Question 328832: At the beginning of a walk, Roberto and Juanita are 7.7 miles apart. If they leave at the same time and walk in the same directions. Roberto over take jaunita in 11 hours. If they walk towards each other they meet in one hour. What are their speeds?
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Question 328875: The recipe requires 1/8 sugar to make 15 cookies. If i want to make 22 cookies, how much sugar do i need?
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Question 328874: Ms. Vu can run 2 5/8 miles in 1 1/4 [miles] hour. At this rate, how many miles can she run in 4 2/5 hour?
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Question 328874: Ms. Vu can run 2 5/8 miles in 1 1/4 [miles] hour. At this rate, how many miles can she run in 4 2/5 hour?
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Question 328819: Christine went shopping and bought each of her nine nephews a gift, either a video costing $14.95 or a CD costing $16.88. She spent $138.41 on gifts. How many videos and CDs did she buy?
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Question 329025: An airplane can travel 450 miles into the wind in 2 hours and 25 minutes. This plane takes the same time to travel 630 miles with the wind. Find the speed of the airplane without any wind.
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Question 329060: Compute the speed of the car traveling with 2x^2 = 25 across distance
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Question 329132: Junior's boat will go 15 mph 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 329141: If Olu drove for 2.5 hours at 65 mph, how far did she drive?
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Question 328826: The Clarke family went sailing on a lake. Their boat averaged 6 kilometers per hour. The Rourke family took their outboard runabout for a trip on the lake for the same amount of time. Their boat averaged 14 kilometers per hour. The Rourke family traveled 10 kilometers farther than the Clarke family. How many hours did each family spend on their boat trip?
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Question 329126: A six passenger airplane cruises at 180 mph in the calm air. If the plane flies 7 miles with the wind in the same amount of time as it flies 5 miles against the wind, then what is the wind speed?
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Question 329161: At 8am, your odometer read 2025 kilometers, and noon, it reads 2295 kilometers, what was your average speed
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Question 329209: 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?

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Question 329260: how far do you travel in 5 mins at 480 mph
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Question 329312: Please help me. No matter how hard I try I can't solve this problem. Write an equation for the problem and solve. An airplane flies from New Orleans, Louisiana to Atlanta, Georgia, at an average rate of 350 miles per hour. The airplane then returns at an average rate of 250 miles per hour. The total travel time is 3 hours. Find the flying time from New Orleans to Atlanta. Thank you so much.
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Question 329352: Brothers Jack and Paul do brisk walking from their house to school daily. Jack walks at 9km/h, and Paul walks at 5 km/h. When Jack reaches the school, Paul is 500 m away. How far is the school from the boys' house?
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Question 329399: Maria drove to her grandmother’s house at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. On the way home, she averaged only 45 miles per hour due to traffic. If she spent a total of 3 1/2 hours driving, how many miles is the trip to her grandmother’s house?
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Question 329402: Distance=40miles, Time = 5 Minutes, Rate = 480mph
Using the formula D=R*T work through if you were missing one piece of information (Distance, Time, Rate)
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Question 329418: how many hours will it take to complete a 63-km bike ride if you go 20km per hour the whole time?
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Question 329450: A train running at 30 kph is overtaken by a car 4 hours after the train started moving. If the car started 1 hour after the train left, what is the speed of the car?
(ASAP)
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Question 329562: Two cars leave towns kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One car's rate is kilometers per hour more than the other's. If they meet in hours, what is the rate of the faster car?
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Question 329583: a man walks 5km and then 3km what is the total time travelled
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Question 329573: Car Hire company A costs $125 per day. Car Hire company B costs $320 plus .50 cents per km. Car is needed for 4 days - unsure of kms to travel.
1. what distance in kms do I need to cover to make Company B's charge cheaper. Define this in a mathematical equation.
2. How to show in an excel graph.
Thank you.

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Question 329593: Let’s say that you are driving on a straight route to a set destination, and you can drive at any speed you like. You stop for a few minutes but when you arrive at the halfway point, you discover that you have averaged only 20 miles per hour. So you decide to forego any more stops and drive fast enough to average 40 miles per hour for the entire trip. If you keep a steady speed, how fast should you drive?
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Question 329518: Solve the following problem. Draw a diagram and show your work.
A ship travels a distance of 82 miles in the direction N 18degrees E and then travels 46 miles in the direction S 72degrees E. Find the distance and bearing of the ship's final position from its original position.
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Question 329572: An office building has 33 floors, each 10 feet high, and elevators that travel at a constant speed. If it takes 10 seconds for an elevator to go from the first floor to the fifth floor, how long will it take an elevator to go from the fifth floor to the middle floor?
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Question 329674: It takes me 46 seconds to go one mile how fast am I going. thanks
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Question 329717: I have been stuck on this math problem for days! I have had my step mom try and help as well and we have gotten nowhere..
An express train and a local train leave Townsville at 8a.m. and head for Cityville 90 miles away. The express train travels three times as fast as the local train, and arrives two hours ahead. Find the speed of each train.
The problem we run into, is there isn't enough information to answer the question, unless there is something were completely missing.
This is what I've tried:
d r t
ex 90 3x-2 90/3x-2
lo 90 x 90/x
90/3x-2 = 90/x
90x = 90(3x-2)
90x = 270x -180
-180x = -180
x=1
So I don't think the train was going one mile per hour.. But that's all I can figure out.. And this is nowhere in my algebra book.
Thank you for your time,
Lauren
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Question 329756: A rock is launched from a cannon its height, h(x), can be represented by a quadratic function in terms of time, x, in seconds.
After 1 second, the rock is 186 feet in the air after 2 seconds, it is 344 in the air.
Find the height, in feet,of the rock after 8 seconds in the air.
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