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Tutors Answer Your Questions about Travel Word Problems (FREE) Get help from our free tutors ===> Algebra.Com stats: 2031 tutors, 423633 problems solved View all solved problems on Travel_Word_Problems -- maybe yours has been solved already! Become a registered tutor (FREE) to answer students' questions. If you need immediate math help from PAID TUTORS right now, click here. (paid link) Click here to see problems AND answers on one page Question 437552: Eric drives at 65 mph for 7 hours. Which proportion can be used to find the total distance in miles? A.)5/1=7/d B.)55/d=7/1 C.)55/7=d/1 D.)55/1=d/7 Click here to see answer by rwm(914)   Question 437577: Flying against a headwind, a plane covers 900 miles in 2 hours. The return trip with a tailwind only takes an hour and a half. Find the speed of the wind, and the speed of the plane within the air mass. Click here to see answer by mananth(12270)   Question 437587: a plane flys 420 miles with the wind and 350 miles against the wind at the same length of time with a wind speed of 20 miles per hour what is the speed of the plane Click here to see answer by mananth(12270)   Question 437560: Sarah hikes at 4 kilometers per hour from one end of a trail that is 34 km long. Amanda begins 1 hr laater at the other end. Walks toward sarah at 6 k/m. How long will it take for them to pass each other Click here to see answer by mananth(12270)   Question 437782: if a car is traveling 55mph for 24 mins how far did they travel Click here to see answer by ewatrrr(10682)   Question 437712: A dad travels 36 miles in 12 hrs. The son travels double in the same amount of time. Where was the son in 9hrs??? I'm guessing the son traveled double so 72 miles in 12 hrs but that about as far as i got.... :( thank you much!!! Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 437842: Estimate how many days it would take to walk around the world, assuming 10 h walking per day at 4 km/h. Click here to see answer by solver91311(17059)   Question 437871: A co-worker posed this problem this morning that his daughter had. I'm not sure enough information is given to arrive at a solution. A lady drives to her destination one day at 40 mph. Another day she drives at 56 mph. She arrived at her destination the second day 2 hrs quicker than the first trip. What was the distance of her trip? Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 437871: A co-worker posed this problem this morning that his daughter had. I'm not sure enough information is given to arrive at a solution. A lady drives to her destination one day at 40 mph. Another day she drives at 56 mph. She arrived at her destination the second day 2 hrs quicker than the first trip. What was the distance of her trip? Click here to see answer by josmiceli(9817)   Question 437871: A co-worker posed this problem this morning that his daughter had. I'm not sure enough information is given to arrive at a solution. A lady drives to her destination one day at 40 mph. Another day she drives at 56 mph. She arrived at her destination the second day 2 hrs quicker than the first trip. What was the distance of her trip? Click here to see answer by solver91311(17059)   Question 437864: if you apply a froce of 2,200 N to do 175J of work on a car, how far did you move it? Click here to see answer by Gogonati(817)   Question 437841: An average family of four uses roughly 1200 liters (about 300 gallons) of water per day. (One liter = 1000 cm3) How much depth would a lake lose per year if it uniformly covered an area of 50 square kilometers and supplied a local town with a population of 40,000 people? Consider only population uses, and neglect evaporation and so on. Click here to see answer by htmentor(806)   Question 437893: It takes George 8 minutes longer to drive to work than it does to get home using the same route. If his average speed going to work is 45 mph and his average speed going home is 54 mph, how far does George live from work ? I have absolutely no idea where to begin with this one. It seems like it would be something along the lines of: let h represent the time to get home. 45(8h)=54 but it doesn't make sense. It also seems like the solution to solve this is to have a variable on both sides. Not sure... Thank you Click here to see answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(15745)   Question 437893: It takes George 8 minutes longer to drive to work than it does to get home using the same route. If his average speed going to work is 45 mph and his average speed going home is 54 mph, how far does George live from work ? I have absolutely no idea where to begin with this one. It seems like it would be something along the lines of: let h represent the time to get home. 45(8h)=54 but it doesn't make sense. It also seems like the solution to solve this is to have a variable on both sides. Not sure... Thank you Click here to see answer by htmentor(806)   Question 437935: If my car gets 25 miles to the gallon and we have to go 980 miles, how much is the cost of gas at 4.00 per gallon Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 438020: If you travel 756 miles in 10 1/4 hours, what is your rate of travel per hour? If you type 632 words in 11min, what is your rate per minute? Click here to see answer by rfer(12726)   Question 438080: How to solve for x in . Click here to see answer by solver91311(17059)   Question 438062: Pete is planning to take a motorboat ride for 80 miles and then take a rowboat for another 20 miles. He figures his motorboat can travel at a rate that is twice as fast as he can row the rowboat. If he wants to take 3 hours for the trip, how fast will he row the rowboat? Click here to see answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(15745)   Question 438065: if you take ten minutes to walk to your friend house two blocks away your average speed is? Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 438116: Matt says he's faster than Alex. He rode 20 feet in 5 minutes. What is Matt's speed, and is he faster than Alex? Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 438154: on a car trip the Smith family can go 350 miles on a full tank of gas. How many miles can the car go on "n" tanks of gas? Click here to see answer by robertb(4012)   Question 438138: the rate of the current in a stream is 3 mph. Amys boat can go 36 miles downstream in the same time it takes to go 24 miles upstream. find the rate of her boat in still water Click here to see answer by jorel1380(2518)   Question 438266: What is the speed of a race horse that runs 1500 miles in 125 seconds? Click here to see answer by stanbon(57940)   Question 438266: What is the speed of a race horse that runs 1500 miles in 125 seconds? Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 438307: if you are 16 miles from ann arbor, how long will it take to get there if your average speed is 42 miles per hour Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 438390: When Frank Gresham drove 150 miles in the city, the fuel efficiency rating for his car was 18 miles/gallon. For highway driving, the fuel efficiency rating is 24 miles/gallon. How far will Frank have to drive on the highway for his car to have a fuel efficiency rating of 20 miles/gallon. My teacher gave us this problem to work on over break and he gave us the answer of 100 miles but i dont know how to get there. I checked this website and the problem has already been answered but in the explanation it says 24 - 20 is 3 which it is obviously not so i still need help setting up the problem. thank you :D Click here to see answer by josmiceli(9817)   Question 438689: okey, so my homework has this problem and i am a bit confused. it says that this girl drives from houston to austin is 170 miles. if she averages 67.5 miles per hour, how long will it take her to drive to austin? Click here to see answer by oberobic(2304)   Question 438673: if you travel 630 mile in 9 hours, what is the average rate Click here to see answer by robertb(4012)   Question 438718: tessa can ride her bike 24 miles in 1 hour less time than it takes Gary to walk 9 miles. tessa's rate is 9 miles per hour faster than Gary's rate. find tessa's rate. Click here to see answer by sudheerb(5)   Question 438769: Hi I'm not to sure how to begin solving this problem. Andrea makes a trip by car at an average speed of 60mph. She returns by the same route at an average speed of 50mph. Calculate her average speed for the entire return journey. (5 marks) Click here to see answer by robertb(4012)   Question 438750: How long will it take for a train to travel 348 miles? Click here to see answer by nerdybill(7003)   Question 438790: the average(mean) of two numbers is A. If one number is x, what is the other number written as an mathematical expression of A and x Click here to see answer by stanbon(57940)   Question 438789: two cars leave the same location at 2.p.m . if one car travels north at the rate of 30 mphs and the other car travels east at the rate of 40 mph. how many miles apart are the two cars at 4 p.m. Click here to see answer by stanbon(57940)   Question 438789: two cars leave the same location at 2.p.m . if one car travels north at the rate of 30 mphs and the other car travels east at the rate of 40 mph. how many miles apart are the two cars at 4 p.m. Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 438784: When a ball is thrown upward at a speed of 19m/s, its height s above the ground (in meters) after t seconds is given by the formula s=19t-24.01t find the height of the ball after 3 seconds I just can't figure out how to solve Kim Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 438915: An airplane travels 1200 miles in 180 minutes. What is the average speed in miles per hour? Click here to see answer by Alan3354(31487)   Question 438899: how long is 5 miles in time in a car Click here to see answer by Edwin McCravy(8999)   Question 438953: Tara drove 3 hours on the freeway, then decreased her speed by 20 miles per hour and drove 4 more hours on a country road. If her total trip was 375 miles, what was her speed on the freeway ? Click here to see answer by jorel1380(2518)   Question 439044: Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40 miles per hour and train B is traveling at 48 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 12:20 PM. If train B passes the same station at 12:35 PM, at what time will train B catch up to train A? Click here to see answer by jorel1380(2518)   Question 439132: A=1/2h(b1+b2) solve for h Click here to see answer by stanbon(57940)   Question 439228: In a 16 km cross-country ski race Brett skied the first 7 km at a constant speed and then increased his speed by 3 km/h for the last 9 km. If he finished the entire race in 1 hour and 20 minutes, what was his speed for the first 7 km? my teacher gave me the answer 10.5 km/hr but i cant set it up right. i know that d = r X t but for some reason when i set up the problem i get a different answer everytime and its never the right one. thanks for your help! Click here to see answer by jorel1380(2518)   Question 439292: A college crew team can maintain a speed equivalent to 15 km/hr in still water. If it takes the team 50 minutes to row 6 km upstream and back, what is the rate of the current in the river? my teacher gave me the answer 3km/hr but i cant figure out how to set it up. could you also explain as you go through? thank you very much :D Click here to see answer by stanbon(57940)   Question 439335: What is the speed of a plane traveling 1.530 kilometers in 2 hours and 45 minutes? Click here to see answer by stanbon(57940)   Question 439253: A driver averaged 49 miles per hour and took 6 hours to travel between two cities. What is the distance between the two cities? Thank you! Click here to see answer by jorel1380(2518)   Question 439297: A car went 70 miles in 4 hours. If it continues going the same speed how long will it take to go 175 miles? Click here to see answer by jorel1380(2518)

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