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Question 335571: Mister "W" took 20 minutes to drive his boat upstream to his favorite fishing place. His return trip home( downstream) at the same boat speed took him 10 minutes. the current in this part of the river is 3 mph. How far away is his favorite fishing place?
I tried this X.20min=30min.mph
X=3/2
d=30 mile
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Question 335581: Pony starts 3 hr before horse. Horse catches pony after 6 hrs. horse speed given find pony’s speed?
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Question 335582: Pony starts 3 hr before horse. Horse catches pony after 6 hrs. horse speed 18km/hr find pony’s speed?
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Question 335589: A circular path has a diameter of 120 meters. your average walking speed is 4 kilometers per hour . about how many minutes will it take you to walk around the path 3 times ?
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Question 335607: If Peg traveled 10 miles in 2 hours and Linda traveled twice as far in half the time, what was Linda’s average speed, in miles per hour?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 20 (D) 30 (E) 40
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Question 335375: if your typical speed is 2 mph how long would it take you to travel 10 miles
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Question 335516: Helen rode her bicycle for 2 hours at a constant speed of 6 km/h. She took the same route to come home, but increased her speed by 6 km/h. How far did she ride?
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Question 335648: I have been having trouble solving theses two problems.
(x/3)+ 2 = x / 6 a+4 / 2 = a+4 / a
Please show the steps so, I can try to work it out again for myself. Thank you.
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Question 335599: Paul MacCready, the father of human powered aircraft invented the Gossamer Albatross, an aircraft which successfully flew the English Channel under human power (a cyclist turning the propeller). The aircraft flew from Folkestone, England to Cap Griz Nez, France, a distance of 22 miles, in approximately 3 hours fighting a headwind. On the return trip, this headwind would become a tailwind. Let us assume that the cyclist can pedal at a rate of 12 mi / hr without wind interference. Exhibit a rational expression for the round trip time, Folkestone to Cap Griz Nez and back, as a function of wind speed. What would be the domain of this rational expression?
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Question 335721: in the 2000 olympics, Marion Jones of the USA won the gold medal in the 100 meter race with a time of 10.75. in 1968, Wyomia Tyus won the same race with a time of 11.08 seconds. if they ran the same race repeating their respective times, by how many meters would Jones beat Tyus?
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Question 335764: A car is going 55 mph. How far will the car go in 2 hours?
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Question 335756: A toolbox is 2 ft high, and its width is 3 ft less than its length. If the volume is 80ft^3, find the length and width of the box. I do not understand how to solve this problem. The book eplains it in a very confusing way.
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Question 335791: How do you write this problem? Tow sailboats 400 meters apart are sailing toward each other. one is moving at a rate of 10m per sec and the other is moving at a rate of 15m per sec. in how many seconds will the boats pass each other? and in how may second will the boats be 400 meters apart again?
I think you write the problem like this
400=10m+15m
and
400=10m-15m
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Question 335792: Wei-Jen works due north of home. Her husband Alan works due east. They leave for work at the same time. By the time Wei-Jen is 5 mi from home, the distance between them is 1 mi more than Alan's distance from home. How far from home is Alan? I did try to solve this problem but i think i missed a step, so it just got me more confused with the problem.
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Question 335675: Hello!
A boat goes 630 miles downstream in the same time it can go 540 miles upstream. The speed of the current is 3 miles per hour. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
Thank you!

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Question 335950: A car travels 245 miles in the same time an airplane travels 2115 miles. If the rate of the car is 340 miles per hour less than the rate of the airplane, what is the rate of each? Let r represent the rate of the car.
How would I write this equation out?
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Question 336061: I need help solving this problem.
A car travels 300 km in the same amount of time that a freight train travels 200 km. The speed of the car is 20km/hr more than the speed of the train. Find the speed of both the car and the train.
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Question 335644: Hanson drove 200 kilometers at x km/hr and then decreased his speed 20 km/hr and drove 240 extra kilometers. Make a table like the one in problem 87. Write a rational expression for his total traveling time. Evaluate that expression for x = 100 km/hr.
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Question 336093: An old computer can do the weekly payroll in 5 hours. A newer computer can do the same payroll in 3 hours. The old computer starts on the payroll, and after 1 hour the newer computer is brought online to work with the older computer until the job is finished. How long will it take both computers working together to finish the job?
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Question 336078: Denny and John leave a station at different times, with both travelling in the same direction. Denny walks 60m per minute, and John cycles 210 m per minute.
1. If Denny has already walked 1800 m, how many minutes will it take for John to catch up with Denny by bike?
2. If John starts by bike 14 minutes after Denny departed, how many minutes will it take John to catch up with Denny?
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Question 336286: Marco drove 50 kilometers per hour for three hours. How far did she drive?
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Question 336203: On a recent trip, Sarahs car traveled 20 mph faster on the first 200 miles that it did on the remaining 80 miles. The total time for the trip was 4 hours. Find the speed of Sarahs car on the first part of the trip.
a) 13 mph b) 77 mph c) 68 mph d) 57 mph
I came up with b) 77 but was not sure if this was correct. Could you please show me the correct way to work this problem out.
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Question 336281: The Santa Fe National Historic Trail is approximately 1200 miles between Old Franklin, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Suppose that a group of hikers start from each town and walk the trail toward each other. They meet after a total hiking time of 240 hours. If one group travels at 1/2 mile per hour slower than the other group, find the rate of each group.
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Question 336345: Ralph jogs from his home to the stadium at 10 km/h. His trip home takes exactly one hour less because he takes a car traveling at 60 km/h. How far is it from Ralph’s home to the stadium?
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Question 336331: Two trains leave the same station at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One train travels 80 kilometers per hour. The other at 100 kilometers per hour. In how many hours would they be 900 kilometers apart?
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Question 336312: the iditarod sled dog race extends 1049 mi. to nome from anchorage. if a musher is four times as far from anchorage as from nome,how many miles has the musher completed?
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Question 336413: Jim and Joe leave at the same time from airports 2700 miles apart and fly toward each other at speeds of 200 mph and 250 mph. How long before they pass each other?
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Question 336464: An airplane travels at 800 km/h. How long does it take to travel 1.50 km
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Question 336482: a car A left city X traveling at an average velocity of 60 miles per hour. Two hours later a car B left city X traveling on the same road at an average velocity of 80 miles per hour. When will the car B catch up to the car A? How far will each car have traveled?
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Question 336513: A student walks and jogs to college each day. she averages 5km/h walking and 9km/h jogging. the distance from home to college is 8km, and she makes the trip in 1hr. how far does the student jog?
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Question 336586: a motorbike can cover 4km in 30 miutes. what distance can it cover in 5 hours.
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Question 336523: on a recent trip, Sararh's car traveled 20 mph faster on the first 110 miles than it did on the remaining 80 miles. The total time for the trip was 4 hr. Find the speed of Sarah's car on the first part of the trip.
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Question 336593: A boat travels 12 km. upstream from town A to town B in 6 hours. The boat
then travels downstream from town B to town C, which is 8 km. further downstream
from A in 5 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 336546: Train A is going 60mph. Train B is going 70mph. If train A passes the station at 5:15 and train B passes the station at 5:45, what time will train B catch train A?
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Question 336359: how many gallons of pure alcohol should be mixed with 20 gallons of 15% alcohol solution to obtain a mixture that is 25% alcohol?
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Question 336739: How long does it take to drive 165 km if your average speed is 60 km per hour?
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Question 336753: Two boats left an island at the same time to return to their home port. Their average speeds differ by 4MPH. The faster boat reachers the port after 3hpurs. The slower boat took thirty minutes longer. Find the speed of each boat.
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Question 336812: Two boats left an island at the same time to return to their home port. Their average speeds differ by 4MPH. The faster boat reaches the port after 3 hours. The slower boat took thirty minutes longer. Find the speed of each boat?
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Question 336826: wo high-speed ferries leave at the same time from a city to go to the same island. the first ferry, the cat, travels at 32 miles per hour . the second ferry , the bird, travels at 27 miles per hour. in how many hours will the two ferries be 20 miles apart?

the ferries will be 20 miles apart after _____ hour(s)
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Question 336803: how many hours will a car traveling at 45 miles per hour take to catch up with a car traveling at 30 miles per hour if the slower car starts one hour before the faster car?
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Question 336834: Suppose a sand dune travels 1.5m in a year. At that rate how long will it take t travel to 6m?ow far will it travel in 12 years?
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