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Question 692306: If a car is driven at 50 kilometers an hour for 3 hours, how far will it travel?
(Use d = rt)
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Question 692402: A bicyclist pedals at 5.0 m/s and comes to a steep hill. The bicyclist slows down to 2.0 m/s in 5s as he starts up the hill. What was the acceleration?
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Question 692411: Two trains leave stations A miles apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One train travels at B miles per hour while the other travels at C miles per hour. How long will it take for the two trains to meet?
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Question 692483:
Please help with this question. An airplane travels 645 miles in 3 hours. How much time will it take traveling 192 miles?
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Question 692461:
football field is about 100m long. If it takes a person 20 seconds to run its length, how fast (what speed) were they running?
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Question 692597: If I drive 16 miles in 24 min, what is my mile per minute
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Question 692747: One more question please !
Someone please help.
A boat can travel 10 miles downstream in 70 minutes. The return trip upstream requires 2 hours. Find the rate of the boat and rate of the current.
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Question 692790: please help me with this question ,i tried so much for it but couldn't figure out-
'two cars which are at 100 km distance start to move towards each other with a speed of 50km/hr; as soon as cars start moving -a bird sitting on car-1 starts flying towards car-2 with speed of 100km/hr and as bird meets car-2 it touches it and returns back to car-1 ,the bird touches car-1 and returns back to car-2 and it goes on until both car meet ,so how much total distance did the bird cover?'
looking forward to a positive response,
Rimjhim.
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Question 692794: if a car travels 350 miles in 5 hours, at the same speed how long will it take to travel 560 miles?
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Question 692779: The time you take to drive to the lake varies inversely with the speed you are driving. Suppose you take 2.5 hours to drive from your house to the lake at 48 mi/h. How long will it take to drive home if you are driving at a speed of 40 mi/h?
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Question 692885: A car travels at 55km/h: how far can it travel
In 4hrs
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Question 692960: A car traveled 140 km in 3.5 hours. What was its average speed in km per hour?
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Question 692960: A car traveled 140 km in 3.5 hours. What was its average speed in km per hour?
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Question 692583: David is 1/4 mile from home bicycling at 21 mph when his brother takes off on his bike from home trying to catch him. How fast must David�s brother go to catch David a mile from home?
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Question 693123: A bus that Travels 85km\h how long will it take to go 300km
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Question 693266: If it takes 8 minuets to travel 2.5 miles fom work to home, at what speed are you traveling?
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Question 693283: If the robbers rob into house somewhere, and leave that place at 3:15 a.m. on car with average speed of 65 Km/h..... Police runs after them at 4:05 a.m. with average speed of 79 km/h.... When will they catch the robbers???????

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Question 693405: A logging barge on the Mississippi River travels 24 miles upstream in 3 hours. The return trip take the barge only 2 hours. Find the rate of the barge in still water.
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Question 693284: The distance between two station is 192 k.m..How much time a train take to pass the stations the another train takes two hours more than the first.If the average speed of the second train is 16 k.m less than the first,then find out the average speed of both the trains ?
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Question 693511: A motor boat travels 3 times as fast as the current. A trip up the river and back takes 10 hr, and the total distance of the trip is
100 km. Find the speed of the current.
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Question 693492:
I am tracking an iceberg. If an iceberg travels an average of .7KM/Hr, how long will it take to reach its destination if it's 1868 KM away?
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Question 693598: Albert is traveling 50 mph in his car. After 3 hours, how far will he have traveled?
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Question 693615: the distance d in miles that a car travels in t hours at a rate of 58 miles per hour is given by the equation d =58t what is the best estimate of how far a car travels in 7 hours?
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Question 693640: There is no current in the river. Jolene goes at 15 km/h. She takes 40 km to go up the river and 40 to go down the river, and takes a total of 6 hours. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 693699: how to set up 695 divided by 6
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Question 693818: running at 9kmph for 20 minutes how far do you travel
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Question 693778: How far could Jim run if he ran 20 mph for 10 min
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Question 693637: Sirs,
Problem "Airplane",falling down at 600mph vertically,from 29000ft in the sky. Can't or don't know how to set it up. Want to figure the time it will hit the ground.Perplexed

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Question 694004: A motorcycle travels 600 miles in 11 hours. What is it's average speed during this trip?
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Question 694108: If 350 cars pass by every 2 hrs then how many cars pass by in 1 hr
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Question 694110: If 350 cars pass by in 2hrs how many cars pass by in 9 hrs?
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Question 694124: a boat traveled 30 miles down stream in 3 hours and made a return trip in 5 hours. find the speed of a boat in still water and the speed of the current.
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Question 694164: jane works due north of home. Her husband Juan works due east. They leave for work at the same time.by the time jane is 3 miles from home, the distance between them is one more than juan's distance from home. How far from home is juan?
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Question 694172: the length of a rectangular garden is 4m greater than the width. The area is 60 m^2. find the dimensions of the garden.
length=
width=
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Question 694208: Sara leaves home at 7am traveling at a rate of 45 mi/h. her son discovers that she has forgotten her briefcase and starts out to catch up with her. her son leaves at 7:30 am traveling at a rate of 55 mi/h. At what time will he over take his mother?
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Question 694274: Sid's car gets 34 miles per gallon on the highway and 26 miles per gallon in the city. If Sid drivesa total of 414 miles on 13 gallons of gas how many miles did the car drive in the city and how many miles did the car drive on the highway?
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Question 694338: a train leaves a station and travels north at a speed of 75mph. four hours later, a second train leaves on a parallel track and travels north at 175mph. how far from the station will they meet.
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Question 694341: if car travels 20 meters in a second, what is speed in KM per hours ?
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Question 694365:
mandy begins bicycling west at 30 miles per hour at 11:00 a.m. if liz leaves from the same point 20 minutes later bicycling west at 36 miles per hour, when will she catch mandy?
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Question 694357:
It requires two hours for a 560 kilometer plane trip and 4 hours for the return against the same wind. What would have been the rate of the plane without the wind? What was the rate of the wind?
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Question 694429: If I were traveling at 67 mph in a car how much time would it take me to cross 132 feet from start to finish
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Question 694443: Hooke's Law, The distance d when a spring is stretched bya hanging object varies
directly as the weight w of the object. if the distance is 69 cm when the weight is 4kg. what is the distance when the weight is 8kg?
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Question 694490: A cyclist rides her bike at a speed of 12 meters per second. What is this speed in kilometers per hour? How many kilometers will the cyclist travel in 5 hours? Do not round your answers.
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