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Question 589485: On a canoe trip, Rita paddled upstream (aginst the current) at an avarage speed of 2mph relative to the riverbank. On the return trip downstream (with the current), her avarage speed was 3mph. Find her speed in still water and the speed of the river's current.
I don't understand at all how to do these so help ASAP would be great. (ps, we're supposed to use a system of linear equations to solve) Thancks in advance :(
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Question 589500: a ship travels miles due north then make a turn due west. it travels 250 miles west how far is the ship from its starting point
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Question 589504: a ship travels 120 miles due north then makes a turn due west. it travels 250 miles west how far is the ship from its starting point
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Question 589534: If a graph shows the relationship between distance and time for a car driven at a constant speed.
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Question 589633: Question: Steve and Michael are in their boat headed upstream. They travel a distance of 15 miles to the nearest beach. The speed of the current is 4 miles per hour. The total trip to the beach takes 7 hours. What is the speed of the boat?
My work: I thought I could try using a variation of t=d/r
I thought I could do (30/(x-4))+(30/(x+4))=7 where x=speed of the boat
Is this the correct way to solve the problem?
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Question 589715: If you travel at a constant rate of 55 m.p.h. how long will it take you to get to Greenville, Mi and St. Louis, Mo.
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Question 589983: If my car gets 25miles/gallon of fuel, and I need to go 660miles, how many litres of fuel will I need?
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Question 590017: How far do you go in two minutes at 18 mph
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Question 590275: traveling 80 kilometers per hour, how long does it take me to go 80 kilometers?
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Question 590273: Two cars start moving from the same point. One travels east at 45 miles per hour and the other travels north at 55 miles per hour. How fast is the distance between them increasing 85 minutes after they start.
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Question 590326: if it takes 2hrs to wlk 15km, hw long does it take 2 walk 20km
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Question 590428: 1. A skater increases her velocity from 2.0 m/sec to 10 m/sec in 3.0 sec. what is her acceleration?
2. A cart rolling down an incline for 5.0 sec. If the cart has a beginning speed of 2.0 m/sec and an ending speed of 22 m/sec, what is its acceleration?
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Question 590484: Two planes are flying around the world. The first plane is flying at 300 miles per hour (mph) and is 350 miles ahead of the second plane. The second plane is flying at 400 mph. How long will it take for the second plane to catch the first plane?
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Question 590655: How far will a car go (in feet) traveling at 19mph for 3.6 seconds?
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Question 590661: The distance between town A & town B is 80 miles, if you are traveling at the speed of 80 kilometers an hour, how long will it take you to get there?
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Question 590743: How long would it take for you to go from 40 mph to 25 mph in seconds?

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Question 590772: if robb drive 400 miles at 60 mph how far did he go?
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Question 590790: Solve the variation equation
The cost incurred by a trucking company vary jointly with the number of trucks in service and the number of hours they are used. When 5 trucks are used for 7 hours each, the cost are $1925. Find the cost of using 12 trucks, each for 13 hours.
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Question 590822: If a train travels 200 miles in 2�� hours, what is the rate of speed? Use this formula: D = rt
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Question 590752: speed of aeroplane is 810 km /h.How distance does it cover in 20 minutes also How far will it fly in 4 seconds
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Question 590803: finf two integers whose sum is 2 and whose product is -48
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Question 590869: Danielle drove at a speed of 65 mph for T hours how far did Danielle travel
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Question 590923: if it takes 3 hours to travel 15 miles downstream and 5 hours to travel upstream, how fast is the current if the speed of the boat remains constant?
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Question 591040: A plane flew 1740 km in 6 hours with tail wind. On return trip, going into the wind, the plane flew 570 km in 3 hours. What is the planes speed if there was no wind.
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Question 591146: The current in a stream moves at a speed of 3km/h. A boat travels 40 km upstream and 40 km downstream in a total time of 14 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 591196: how long will it take you to travel 350 miles at 70 mph?
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Question 591315: My teacher gave us this question and idk how to do it! An airplane flew 1750 miles in 3.5 hours with a tail wind. The return trip took 4 hours against the same wind. Find the wind speed and the speed of the plane in still air.
I tried to make a table and divide the distance by time but it does't work. Can u pls show me step by step?
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Question 591436: holly took a 1900km trip traveling by bus and plane. The bus averaged 60km/h and the plane averaged 700 km/h if the trip took a total of 5 h how many kilometers did she travel? I need to answer this using two variables x and Y.
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Question 591494: if i were driving 80 km per hour, how long would it take me to drive 80 km?
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Question 591501: A bird flew 12 miles in an hour aided by a tailwind. Then it turned and flew back against the wind but was unable to fly only 4 miles per hour. What was the speed of the wind? How fast would the bird have flown if there had been no wind?
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Question 591424: Trey has ridden 57 miles of a bike course. The course is 95 miles long. What percentage of the course has Trey ridden so far?
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Question 591532: A boat travels 180 miles in 5 hours downstream and makes the return trip in 6 hours. what is the speed of the current?
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Question 591708: Emily's boat goes 14 mph. Find the speed of the current in the river if she can go 8 miles downstream in the same time as she can go 6 miles upstream.
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Question 591735: How long would it take to travel 400 miles at 40 miles per hour?
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Question 591827: how long will it take to travel one mile at 35 mph
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Question 591947: If I'm traveling at 215 miles and hour how long will it take to go 38 miles?
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Question 591947: If I'm traveling at 215 miles and hour how long will it take to go 38 miles?
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Question 591947: If I'm traveling at 215 miles and hour how long will it take to go 38 miles?
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Question 591956: An aircaft travels 2850 kilometers in 2.5 hours. What is the aircrafts speed?
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Question 591970: suppose your car averages 38 miles per gallon on the highway if your averages speed is 60 miles per hour
approximately how much gasoline would be consumed by this car, based on a 2000 mile trip
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Question 592085: the plane average 1000 kilometers per hour on the first half of the round trip,but heavy winds slowed its speed on the return trip took 600 kilometers per hour. If the entire trip to 6 hours find the total distance.
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Question 592169: A supernova is the explosion of the star. The burning of a carbon at the star's center creates a shock wave that travels outward at about 30,000 km/s
Imagine that you are an astronomer.Your task is to write an equation that gives the distance traveled by the shock wave in t seconds. You need to complete the tables(7 tables) for the given values of t
TABLE: *pls. write your answer in time under the numbers*
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Time in t seconds| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
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Distance d(in km)| _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! ^_^ _(under score) in distance means blank
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