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Question 970193: A full tank of petrol is 40 liter, fuel mileage consumption is 7L/100km. How much petrol is in the tank if the distance indicator stated 80 km (until tank empty)
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Question 970205: kimi travels 300 km to her home partly by train and partly by bus. She takes 4 hours, if she travelled 60 km by train and the remaining by bus. If she travelled 100 km by train and the remaining by bus, she would take 10 minutes longer. Find the average speed of the train and the bus.
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Question 970250: Two sreetcars are 11 miles apart and traveling toward each other on parallel tracks. They meet in 12 minutes. Find the speed of each streetcar if one travels 15 miles per hour faster than the other.
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Question 970236: A motorway journey takes 3 hours at an average speed of 120km/hr.How long will it take if the average speed is reduced to 80km/hr?
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Question 970277: Colton went on a bike ride of 36 miles. He realized that if he had gone 3 mph faster, he would have arrived 6 hours sooner. How fast did he actually ride?

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Question 970291: A car is leaving Los Angeles, Ca at 75 miles an hour. It needs to drive 1100 miles until it reaches its destination. Approximately how many hours will it take the car to reach its destination?
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Question 970311: If Northwest airlines flight #313 flies east from Minneapolis- St. Paul for 225 miles and then south for 315 miles, how far from Minneapolis- St. Paul is the airplane? If necessary round to the nearest tenth of a mile.
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Question 970353: Maria and Ming start at the same point and drive in opposite directions. Maria drives 44 mph and Ming drives 38 mph. How far apart will they be in 2 hours?
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Question 970372: Mark is staying at the Sheraton La Jolla in San Diego for 5 nights and he wants to know the total cost of his stay. The cost of the hotel is $271.50 per night. There is a $15 resort fee per night and tax is 12.5%. What is the total cost of Mark's hotel?
Mark also needs to rent a car for his time in San Diego. He plans to rent a Chevrolet Malibu that costs $47.80 per day. Airport rental car fees are 14.05 per day and tax is 6.9%. What is the cost of Mark's rental car?

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Question 970365: If you are traveling 45 miles per hour how many minutes to the nearest whole number would it take you to travel 240 miles?
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Question 969896: A boat goes downstream 72 miles in 3 hours, and travels upstream 60 miles in 6 hours. What is the rate of the river, and what is the boat in still water?
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Question 970405: If it takes 28minutes 47 seconds to travel 15km what is the average speed.
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Question 970407: On our side of the road our house is fourteenth from the north end of the block or eighth coming from south. How many houses are there in block on our side of road?
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Question 970461: jon drove for 3.5 hours at a constant speed. he traveled 175miles. what is his speed
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Question 970476: Consider these imagionary plates on Planet X
The Brian plate is moving at a rate of 0.22 cm/day . The Ewing plate is moving at a rate of 2m/year. The Andrews plate is moving at a rate of 0.006cm/day
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Question 970495: Nuri is researching the fuel efficiency of pickup trucks. He found a website that advertised a hybrid pickup truck with a fuel efficiency of 22 mpg for highway driving. He found another website that advertised a pickup truck with a fuel efficiency of 10 km/L for highway driving. Which truck has a better fuel efficiency? Explain how you know.
b. Describe a different strategy you could have used to determine the better fuel efficiency in part a).

Note: 1 mi (mile) = 1.61 km
1 US gal = 3.79 L
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Question 970502: A atorm is traveling at 25mph and is 20 miles away. How long before it reaches ist destination?
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Question 970529: a airplane has a speed of 300mi/h in still air. It heads south and encounters a 50mi/h wind blowing due east what is the speed of the plane.
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Question 970531: How fast do you have to travel to 20 miles in 5 minutes?
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Question 970553: Sammy is training for a running race. Today he ran 3 3/5 miles in 33 minutes. What is his pace in miles per hour?
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Question 970548: A geostationary satellite is positioned 35,800 km above earths surface. It takes 24 hours to complete one orbit. The radius of earth is about 6400 km. how do I find the distance that the satellite travels in 1 hour?
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Question 970595: The car travels 75 miles in one hour and 25 minutes. Find the average speed in mph
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Question 970607: if plane covers 1400Km in 14 minutes so how much it covers in 8 minutes?

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Question 970650: Carly walks 30 feet in seven seconds. At this rate, how many minutes will it take for Carly to walk a mile of there are 5,280 feet in one mile?
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Question 970647:
Travis made a business trip of 198 miles. He averaged 52 mph for the first part of the trip and 60 mph for the second part. If the trip took 3.5 hours , how long did he travel at each rate?
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Question 970703: a plan flys 1000km at 300km/hr. How long does the flight take.

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Question 970493: Draw a graph to represent hiking 500m from a campground in 10 min, stopping for 5 min, hiking another 400 m away from the campground in 8 min, and then hiking back to the campground along the same trail in 15 min. Where appropriate, assume you are travelling at a constant rate on each part of the trip.
b. Explain how each slope on your graph represents a rate. (2 marks)
c. Calculate the rate for each slope on your graph. (4 marks)
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Question 970762: Please help me answer this question its so complicating.
Keith left the city for vacation. Jason left 9 hours later going 57 mph to catch up. After 8 hours Jason caught up to Keith. What was Keith's average speed?
Can you also please provide an explanation? I appreciate your help!
~Jaz
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Question 970766: How long will is take me to go 18 miles going at a rate of 70 mph
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Question 970764: After t hours on a particular day, a freight train is s(t)=−17.98t+16.732t^2-0.78t^3 miles due east of its starting point (for 0≤t≤18).
a) Where is the train (both distance and direction from starting point) after 9 hours?
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Question 970768: A Rock is launched from a cannon. Its height, h(x), can be represented by a quadratic function in terms of time, x, in seconds.
After 1 second, the rock is 129 feet in the air; after 2 seconds it is 236 feet in the air.
Find the height, in feet, of the rock after 5 seconds in the air.
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Question 970846: while participating in the cycle rally me and my sister starts from a fixed point at the same time but reach destination at different time through the same route
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Question 970892: Two cars are going 30 mph. One is 3 miles away and the other is 4 miles away...
One arrives. How much later until the second one arrives?
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Question 970899: two cars are going 15mph...one car is 3 miles away, the other car is 4 miles away...the first car arrives...how much later does the second car arrive
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Question 970920: Mercy runs 5 miles in 38 minutes. At the same rate, how many miles would she run in 57 minutes?

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Question 970914: Carlos and Maria went on vacation. When carlos drove, he drove at 50 miles/hr. When Maria drove, she traveled at 65 miles/hr. They drove for 6 hours, and went a total of 360 miles. What was their average speed?
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Question 970950: A loaded truck is moving 40mph. faster than a freight train. The truck travels 350 miles in the same time as the train travels 150 miles. Find the speed of the truck.
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Question 970945: two casrs leave a parking lot at the same time.one car travel south at 55 mph and other car travels west at 45 mph. how long will it take until the cars are 150 apart
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Question 970985: How do i work this out?:
Two cars are driven around a 10 kilometre track.
Both cars leave from the start line at the same time.
Car X travels at exactly 40km/h
Car Y travels at exactly 30km/h
How many minutes will it be before they pass the start line together?
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Question 971001: At 9:00 in the mornong, two bicyclists heading opposite directions pass each other on a bicycle path. THe bicyclist headong north is going 4km/h faster than the other guy. AT 10:30, they ate 39km apart. Whats the rate of the two bicylists?
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Question 971062: 7. Two trains, one travelling 15 km/hr faster than the other, leave the same station at the same time, one travelling east and the other west. At the end of 6 hours they are 570 km apart. What is the speed of each train?
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Question 971066: If your bus travels 400m in 20 seconds what is your bus speed

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Question 971061:
A plane flew 720 mi with a steady 30 mi/hr tailwind. The pilot then returned to the starting point, flying against the same wind. If the round-trip flight took 10 hr, what was the plane's airspeed?

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