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Question 928953: A rectangular animal pen with area 1200 ft.� has one side along a barn the other three sides are enclosed by hundred feet of fencing find the dimensions of the pen.
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Question 928955: A hydrofoil made a round-trip of 144 km in 4 hours. because of headwinds the average speed on returning was 15 km/h less than the average speed going out. find both individual speeds (going out and returning)
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Question 928969: Michael walks 30 meters in 20 seconds. How many meters can he walk per second?
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Question 929012: A baseball pitcher with a good arm can throw the ball to home plate (60 feet) in .45 seconds. That means the hitter has a little less than a half of a second to swing at the ball. How fast is this pitch in miles per hour?
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Question 929016: The distance between Los Angeles and New York City is approximately 2,500 miles. How far is this distance in kilometers?
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Question 929019: Julies loves to go to the bowling alley on Friday nights. It just so happens that in bowling, the length of the lane the ball travels down, is the same distance the pitcher has to throw the ball in baseball (60 feet). It only takes Julie's bowling ball 2.92 seconds to go down the lane and hit the pins. How fast can she throw the ball in miles per hour?
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Question 929021: two birds fly in the same direction if one goes twice as fast as the other and it takes them 3 hours to be 57 miles apart find their speeds
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Question 929009: Andrea can rollerblade faster than most skateboards, she can go 250 feet in 10 seconds. At this rate, how many miles can she ride in 1 hour?
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Question 929059: if you traveled 200 kilometers in two hours, what is your speed?
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Question 929074: Experiments have shown that on smooth, dry roads, the relationship between the braking distance(d) and speed(s) is given by d(s)=.03s^2. Speed given in miles/hour and the distance is in feet. How many feet should you leave between you can the car in front of you if you are driving the car at 55mi/hr?
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Question 929085: How many feet should you leave between you and the car in front of you if you are
driving the Ferrari at 55 mi/hr?
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Question 929115: Train A and Train B are 100 km apart. They leave at the same time traveling on the same track towards each other, and take the same amount of time to get to maximum speed. Train A travels at 60 kph. Train B travels at 100 kph. At what distance from the A Station will Train B pass Train A?

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Question 929117: Ata rate of 64 kilometers per hour how far will a car traveling 7 1/2 hours
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Question 929157: A race car travels at 205 mph. At this rate, how far would it travel in 3 hours?
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Question 929190: if your traveling 120 km/hr for 30 minutes how many meters did it trave
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Question 929022: Two cars are driving towards each other. The first car is driving at 30 mph north and is 5miles south of the intersection. The second car is driving 40mph west and is 6 miles east of the intersection what is the closest the cars ever get to one another?
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Question 929177: An express bus travels 310 miles in the same amount of time that a car travels 275 miles. The rate of the car is 7 miles per hour slower than the rate of the bus. Find the rate of the car.
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Question 929280: if you can finish a 50 kilometer biking trail in 10 hours, how long do you travel per hour in kilometer?
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Question 929323: Pete lives five miles from school. How far is that in kilometers?

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Question 929275: If you can finish a 50 kilometer biking trail in 10 hours, how long do you travel per hour in kilometer?

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Question 929435: A man can ride his bike 18 miles in the same time it takes him to run 6 miles. He can ride his bike 10 mph faster than he can run. How fast can he ride his bike?
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Question 929460: if cyclist travels 12 miles in 2 hours what is the cyclist speed in mph?

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Question 929563: A horse can run 2 miles in 6 minutes. How long will it take him to run 10 miles (in hours).

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Question 929584: Yoko has ridden
miles of a bike course. The course is
miles long. What percentage of the course has Yoko ridden so far?
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Question 929581: How far had Larry traveled at 14 seconds ?
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Question 929598: Two trains leave stations 228 miles apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One train travels at 105 miles per hour while the other travels at 85 miles per hour. How long will it take for the two trains to meet?
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Question 929701: Mr hill drove two hundred and eleven miles in 4 hours and 30 minutes find these rates
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Question 853894: traveling with the current a rower travels 1 hour 12 minutes before turning around. traveling against the current it takes the rower 1 hour 48 minutes to return to the starting point. the rower can travel 6 miles per hour in water with no current. how fast is the current?
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Question 929716: Maria, an experienced shipping clerk, can fill a certain order in 13 hours. Felipe, a new clerk, needs 16 hours to do the same job. Working together, how long will it take them to fill the order?
Answer= _____ hours
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Question 929791: Ashley drove at an average speed of 50 mi/h from her home in Seattle to visit her sister in Memphis. She stayed in Memphis 20 hours, and on the trip back averaged 60 mi/h. She returned home 44 hours after leaving. How many miles is Seattle from Memphis?
a) Write an equation using the information as it is given above that can be solved to answer this question. Use t as your varible to represent the amount of time Ashley spent driving from Seattle to Memphis.
b) How many miles is Seattle from Memphis?

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Question 929869: a car travels 30 miles in the same time that a car traveling 5 miles per hours faster travels 45 miles what is the rate of each car
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Question 929868: Park rangers introduce 50 elk into a wildlife preserve. The function
250(3t+5)
P=----------
t+25
models the elk
population, P(t) , after t years. How many years will it take for the population to increase to 125 elk?
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Question 929870: a painter can paint a fence in 12 hours working alone, his apprentice who works slower can paint the same fence in 24 hours. how many hours would it take to do the job if they worked together ?
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Question 929934: A race track is 530 meters long. If a driver goes around the race track twice how many kilometers did the driver travel
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Question 929984: A truck was driven 84 mi and used 3 gal of gasoline. At this rate, how far would the same truck travel on 9.5 gal of gasoline?
Tutors can you please jot down how you came up with the answer so I can comprehend.
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Question 929989: a turtle can walk 12 miles in 3 hour. What is average speed of the turtle
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Question 929928: Two towns are 1250 miles apart. A group of hikers start from each town and walk the trail towards each other. They meet after a total hiking time of 200 hours. If one group travels 2.5 mile per hour faster than the other group, find the rate of each group.
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Question 930133: route 95 runs from Maine to Florida along the east coast. From Houton, Maine to Miami, Florida is 1,869 miles. If kyle drove at an average speed of fifty-eight miles per hour, how long would it take him to drive that distance?
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Question 930125: Two automobiles each travel 60 km at steady rates. One car goes 6 kph faster than
the other, thereby taking 20 minutes less time for the trip. Find the rate of the
slower car.
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Question 930186: an airplane can travel 525 mph in still air. if it travels 3850 miles with the wind in the same amount of time as it can travel 3500 miles against the wind. What is the speed of the wind?
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Question 930183: How long will it take to drive 30,000 miles, driving 10hrs a day in a commerical vehicle at 65-70mph?

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Question 930227: What would be the speed if a vehicle traveled 1500 miles in 5 minutes?

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Question 930259: A man drove a certain distance at a uniform rate. If his rate had been 3 miles per hour slower the trip would have taken 24 minutes longer. If his rate had been 6 miles per hour faster he would have saved a quarter of an hour. find the distance and his rate.
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