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Question 404384: If you drove at average speed of 33 miles per hour, what distance, in miles, did you drive in 99 minutes?
99/60=1.65
1.65*33=54.45
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Question 404477: A bird can fly 25km/h. How long does it take to fly 15km?
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Question 404332: I have machine that travels at a max speed of 45" per minute.
How long will it take to go 2".
Thanks in advance
LT
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Question 404497: A car and a motorcycle both leave from the same point and travel in the same direction. The car travels at an
average rate of 65mph and the motorcycle at an average rate of 30mph. How long will it take before the vehicles
are 5 miles apart?
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Question 404408: a passenger train leaves a train station four hours after a train leaves the same station. The freight train is traveling ten mph slower than the passenger train. Find the rate of the passenger train if the passenger train overtakes the fright train in 20 hours.
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Question 404486: A sprinter accelerates from rest to 10.0m/s in 1.35s. What is her acceleration (a) in m/s^2 and (b) in km/h^2?
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Question 404484: A sports car accelerates from rest to 95km/h in 6.2s. What is the average acceleration in m/s^2?
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Question 404487: A car accelerates from 13m/s to 25m/s in 6.0s. What was its acceration? How far did it travel in this time? Assume constant acceleration.
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Question 404491: A light plane must reach a speed of 33m/s for takeoff. How long a runway is needed if the (constant)acceleration is 3.0m/s^2?
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Question 404656: for your job you often fly between seattle and miami. The distance between these cities is 2,724 miles. You earned a free flight after you accumulate 25,000 miles of travel. How many round trips (back and foth0 must you make between seattle and miami in order to ear a free flight

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Question 404622: A plane can fly 480 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 160 miles. If the car travels 80 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane.

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Question 404707: At a high school cross country meet, Jared jogged 8 mph for the first part of the race, then increased his speed to 12 mph for the second part. If the race was 21 mi. long and Jared finished in 2hr., how far did he jog the faster pace?
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Question 404731: points A and B are 70 km apart on a highway. a car starts from A and another car starts from B at the same time. If they travel in the same direction, they meet in 7 hours, but they travel in opposite direction they meet in one hour. what are their speeds
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Question 404678: At 9:00 a.m. a truck leaves the truck yard and travels west at a rate of 50 mph. At 11:00 a.m., a second truck leaves along the same route, traveling at 75 mph. When will the second truck catch up to the first?
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Question 404702: An airplane can travel 1350 miles with the wind in 6 hours and can travel the same distance against the wind in 9 hours. What is the speed of the aircraft? What is the speed of the wind?

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Question 404872: A person travels by car from one city to an-
other. She drives for 24.9 min at 74 km/h,
10.4 min at 105 km/h, 42.6 min at 45.9 km/h,
and spends 19.1 min along the way eating
lunch and buying gas.
Determine the distance between the cities
along this route.
Answer in units of km.
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Question 404852: “It took Peter sixteen more minutes to drive to work today than it did yesterday. Tomorrow he wants it to take five minutes less than yesterday so that his average drive time for the three days is no more than 30 minutes. How long did it take Peter to get to work each day?”

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Question 404881: a boat takes 2 hours to go 30 km downstream and 3 hours to go the same distance upstream. finds its speed in still water.
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Question 404894: It takes joan 3 times longer than jane to file reports. together they can do it in 12 minutes. How long would it take each woman to file the reports alone?
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Question 404954: Sue lives 2.5 miles from school. How long will it take her to get to school while traveling 3 miles per hour?
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Question 404972: If you travel 840 light years in 7 days at 120 light years per day...how fast would you have to travel to make the same trip (840 light years)in 12 hours or half day?
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Question 405126: A bag of fertilizer covers 6000ft2.
How many bags are needed to cover an area of 32000ft2?
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Question 405120: If a 3ft stick in the ground casts a shadow of 1.2ft find the length of the shadow of a 48.4ft tree.

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Question 405193: Two trucks leave from the same truck stop at the same time. One travels east on interstae 80 and the other travels west. The eastbound truck averages 40 miles per hour, and the westbound truck averages 50 miles per hour. In how many hours will the trucks be 300 miles apart?
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Question 405165: X person start walking a 6 miles per hr y person start walking 3 hours later a 10 m/hr how long before they cross paths?

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Question 405131: one conveyor belt requires 20 minutes to fill a large truck with ore. A second conveyor belt requires 30 minutes to fill the same truck with ore. how long would it take if both conveyor belts were working together to fill the truck with ore?
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Question 405335: Sydney rode her bike to school at an average speed of 15 miles per hour. What was her speed in feet per minute?

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Question 405322: If my speend is 60mph and my distance is 10 ft what is my time and how do I solve it by showing work
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Question 405318: If I am going 15 mph, how long will it take me to travel 5 miles?
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Question 405372: If I am going 10 mph, How long will it take me to travel 5 miles?
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Question 405406: A motorboat goes 5 miles upstream in the same time it requires to 7 miles downstream. If the river flows at 2mph, find the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 405430: How many revolutions will a car wheel of diameter 28 inches make as the car travels a distance of three miles?
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Question 405439: Calculate the force F needed to keep a 525Kg wagon stationary on an uphill slope with an incline angle of 15 degrees. (friction is zero, and g = 9.81)
I tried and found F=1332.98 Newtons.
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Question 405402: Two cars leave Prima Community College traveling in opposite directions. One car travels at 60mph and the other at 64mph. In how many hours will they be 310 miles apart?
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Question 405534: If a car travels 60 miles in 3 hours, what is the car’s speed?
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Question 405541: Andy is driving at a speed of 95 MPH. How many miles has he traveled in 24 mins?
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Question 405541: Andy is driving at a speed of 95 MPH. How many miles has he traveled in 24 mins?
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Question 405552: Two trains leave stations 374 miles apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One train travels at 80 miles per hour while the other travels at 90 miles per hour. How long will it take for the two trains to meet?
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Question 405278: a man walks 31 mile, partly at teh rate of 2mph and the rest is 5mph. if he had walked at teh rate of 5mph for teh same times as he actually walked at 2mph and vice versa, he would have covered 15 miles more. how long did it take him to walk 31 miles
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Question 405646: a plane flies 400 miles downwind in the same amount of time as it takes to travel 320 miles upwind. of the plane can fly at 360 mph in still air, find the velocity of the wind.
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Question 405696: How long does it take to travel .2 miles at 35 miles per hour?
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Question 405696: How long does it take to travel .2 miles at 35 miles per hour?
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Question 405716: if it takes her 12 minutes to drive one way how many hours a week does she drive
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