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Question 387413: 5. A comet is flying at a speed of 400 m/s when it reaches the earth’s orbit and starts accelerating toward the earth with a=30 m/s2 for time t=8 s. What is its final speed?

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Question 387476: how long does it take to get somewhere 20 miles away at 45mph??
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Question 387476: how long does it take to get somewhere 20 miles away at 45mph??
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Question 387408: A car is driving at 100 km/hr for thirty minutes. How far does it travel?
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Question 387462: darren leaves on a car trip, driving a steady 15 M.P.H. he expects the trip to take 2 hours. after he has driven for 30 mins, he realizes he has forgotten an appointment and he needs to arrive 15 minutes earlier than he planned. how many M.P.H. will he need to drive for the rest of his trip to make his goal?
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Question 387430: if u cut a 156centemeter board into 5 pieces. thre three shortest pieces are the same lenght and the two longer pieces are each 3 centimeters longer than the dhort piece. how long is eah piece of board

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Question 387537: Two trains are traveling in 60 kmph on same trace, towards each other. When the distance between them is 18 km, a fly is going to start, flying between them in 80 kmph speed. Find the traveling path distance of the fly up to when it is going to crush by the 2 trains?
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Question 387571: There is a honey bee and a train 100Kms apart. The train travels at 40Km/Hr and bee at 60Km/hr. Both start from opposite direction. If the honeybee returns back to the starting point after colliding with the train. It again returns back after meeting the starting position and this process continues till the train reach the position at which the honeybee started. Find the total distance travelled by the honeybee.
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Question 387547: During the first part of a trip a conoeist travels 65 miles at a certain speed. The conoeist travesl 11 miles on the second part of the trip at a speed of 5 mph slower. The total time for the trip is 5hr. What was the speed for each part of the trip?
Simplify your answer. Type an integer or a decimal. Round to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 387634: a train is going to a place B and the velocity is 80 km/h. After half an hour, another train leaves for B and its velocity is 100 km/h. both trains arrive in B at the same time. what is the lengh of the route ?
Please tell me if this solution is good enough!
S1: speed of train 1
S2: speed of train 2
D1 = distance travelled by train 1
D2 = distance travelled by train 2
t1 : time it took train 1 to get at B
t2 : time it took train 2(which was late by 1/2 h) to get at B
When both trains arrive at place B, they would have travelled the same distance and thus: D1 = D2
S1 * t1 = S2 * t2
80 * t1 = 100 * (t1 - 1/2)
80t1 = 100t1 - 50
t1 = 2.5 hours
so the D1 = 80 * 2.5 = 200 km
also D2 = 100 * (2.5 - 0.5) = 200 km
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Question 387669: Carlos and Robert leave Cabanatuan city at the same time. They are heading to BuLACAN. Carlos, driving his sports car, travels 65kph. Robert, on a motorcycle travels at 55 kph. How long will it be before they are 55km apart?
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Question 387691: A motorboat travels 441mi in 7 hours going upstream and 522mi in 6 hours going downstream. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 387876: A bicyclist leaves Bay Shore traveling at an average speed of 12 miles per hour.
Three hours later, a car leaves Bay Shore, on the same route, traveling at an
average speed of 30 miles per hour. How many hours after the car leaves Bay
Shore will the car catch up to the cyclist?
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Question 387856: A bicyclist leaves Bay Shore traveling at an average speed of 12 miles per hour. Three hours later, a car leaves Bay Shore, on the same route, traveling at an average speed of 30 miles per hour. How many hours after the car leaves Bay Shore will the car catch up to the cyclist?
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Question 387938: A ball is thrown upward with an initial speed of 24.5 m/s. When is it 19.6m high?

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Question 387957: Julio left Joe's house 2 hours before Bob. They traveled in opposite directions. Huong traveled at 25km/h for 3 hours. After this time they are 425km apart. What is julio's speed?
I wish i had any work to show. I just don't get it at all
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Question 387964: train a and b are traveling the same direction on parallel tracks. Train a is traveling at a rate of 100mph and train b at 125mph. Train a passes a station at 6:10am and train b passes the same station at 6;22am what time will train b catch up to train a?
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Question 387974: a family drove to an amusement park at 50 mph and returned on the same route at 40 mph. find the distance to the amusement park if the total driving time was 7.2 hours.
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Question 388005: if a person is going 80 miles an hour how long will it take him to go 3 miles

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Question 388006: 2 person A & B travel in opp direction for 6 km and then take their right for 8 km .. what is the distanew between A&B ?

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Question 388027: I walk 3.6 miles in 52 minutes. How fast am I going in miles per hour?
Is this right: (60/52) X 3.6 = 4.15 mph?
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Question 388070: A subway train travels 296 miels daily how far does the train travel in a week?
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Question 388069: Elvira made a trip on Tuesday, and David made the same trip on Wednesday. Elvira traveled at 14 mph. David traveled at 21 mph, so his time was 3 hours less than Elvira's time. How far did they travel?
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Question 388066: the angles of elevation to an airplane from two points A and B on level ground are 51 degrees and 68 degrees respectively. The points A and B are 2.5 miles apart, and the airplane is east of both points in the same vertical plane. Find the altitude of the plane.
thanks for the help! i've been stuck on this problem for like an hour now!
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Question 388062: the angles of elevation to an airplane from two points A and B on level ground are 51(degrees) and 68(degrees), respectively. The points A and B are 2.5 miles apart, and the airplane is east of both points in the same vertical plane. Find the altitude of plane.
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Question 388092: Shameeka ran 60 miles in 15 seconds. How far did she run in one hour?
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Question 388097: Rosario spent $8.28 for two bags of dog biscuits. If there are 36 biscuits per bag, find the unit cost per biscuits.
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Question 388097: Rosario spent $8.28 for two bags of dog biscuits. If there are 36 biscuits per bag, find the unit cost per biscuits.
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Question 388094: Alexis spent $8.28 for two bags of dog biscuits. If there are 36 biscuits per bag, find the unit cost per biscuit.
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Question 388094: Alexis spent $8.28 for two bags of dog biscuits. If there are 36 biscuits per bag, find the unit cost per biscuit.
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Question 388013: A speedboat takes 4 hours longer to go 80 miles up a river than to return. If the boat cruises at 15 miles per hour in still water, what is the rate of the current?
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Question 388157: mary travels 7 miles north and 12 miles west. what is the diagonal distance from her starting point to where she stopped?
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Question 388157: mary travels 7 miles north and 12 miles west. what is the diagonal distance from her starting point to where she stopped?
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Question 388224: A car travels for 90 miles at an average speed 60mph. Due to traffic it then reduces its average speed to 30mph for a further 60 miles. How long does the journey take?

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Question 388235: how fast does a car travel if it travels 11 miles in 8 minutes
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Question 388346: You are flying a plane at 14.1 mph in the northeast direction (45 degrees) the wind is blowing at 4 mph from due north. what is you air speed?
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Question 388124: If fuel costs $1.40 per gallon, write the cost function, c(x), that expresses the cost of fuel for a 500 mile trip as a function of the speed. What driving speed will make the cost of fuel for the trip $250?
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Question 388576: Two cars travel the same distance. The first car travels at a rate of 40 miles per hour and reaches its destination in t hours. The second car travels at a rate of 55 miles per hour and reaches its destination 3 hours earlier than the first car. How long does it take for the first car to reach its destination? How long does it take for the second car to reach its destination?

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Question 388589: A and B are 30 km apart.If they leave at the same time and travel in the same direction, A overtakes B in
60 hours.If they walk toward each other, they meet in 5 hours. What are their rates?
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Question 388068: Roger made the trip on Sunday, and Judy made the same trip on Monday. Roger traveled at 12 mph. Judy traveled at 20 mph, so her time was 2 hours less than Roger's time. How far did they travel?
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Question 388616: speed of a boat in still wateris 9km/hr.It goes 12km down stream and comes back to the starting point in 3hrs.What is the speed of water in the stream?
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Question 388638: 2 passenger trains traveling in opposite directions meet and pass each other. Each train is 1/12 mi long and is traveling at 50 mph. How many seconds after front part of the trains meet will their rear parts pass each other?
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Question 388640: If you are traveling at a speed of 64 miles per hour, how long will it take to drive 430 miles?
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Question 388652: 19. A motorboat can go 16 miles downstream on a river in 20 minutes. It takes 30 minutes for this boat to go back upstream the same 16 miles.Let x = the speed of the boat.
Let y = the speed of the current.

a. Write an equation for the motion of the motorboat downstream.
b. Write an equation for the motion of the motorboat upstream.
c. Find the speed of the current.

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