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Question 976403: Two trains are 440 miles apart, and their speeds differ by 12 mph. Find the speed of each train if they are traveling toward each other and will meet in 4 hours.
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Question 976445: in going from one city to another, a driver tend to get lost travel 30 kms north,then 50 kms. west,20 kms. southeast. what is the distance between the two cities?
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Question 976469: Would it take the same amount of time to a pass a car going 60 mph if you are going 70 mph as the time it would take to pass a still car while you are going 10 mph?
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Question 976466: A car is traveling at a rate of 55 miles per hour. The distance traveled is related to the amount of time spent traveling by the equation d = 55t. Which equation gives the value of t in terms of d?
A. t=55/d
B. t=d+55
C. t=55d
D. t=d/55

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Question 976545: he drove 10 miles to school from his house in 20 minutes. he drove the 10 miles home in 30 minutes what is his average velocity is
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Question 976436: Two travelers set out from a certain place going in the same direction. The first travels at a constant rate of 6 miles per hour, while the second goes 10 miles the first hour, 8 miles the second hour, 6 miles the third hour and so on. After how many hours will the first traveler overtake the second? With what distance in miles, both have traveled at overtaking point?
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Question 976562: After Hurricane Katrina, a rescue vehicle leaves a station at noon and heads for New Orleans. An hour later a second vehicle traveling 10 mph faster leaves the same station. By 4:00 p.m., the first vehicle reaches its destination, and the second is still 10 mi away. How fast is each vehicle?
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Question 976564: Peter paddled a canoe 20 miles upstream, then paddled the canoe back to the starting point. the rate of the current was 3 mph and the total trip took 7 hours. At what rate would Peter paddle the canoe in still water?
Please help solve.

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Question 976606: A ship can cruise at 42 km/h in calm waters,set course due south.It is driven off course by a current flowing East 22 degrees North at a velocity of 7.2 km/h.
Calculate resultant velocity of the ship in magnitude and direction. Also the distance cruised after 5 hours
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Question 976647: An airplane can fly 650 miles with the wind in the same amount of time as it can fly 425 miles against the wind. If the wind speed is 50 mph, find the speed of the plane in still air. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

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Question 976685: A pilot can travel 540 miles with the wind in the same amount of time as 380 miles against the wind. Find the speed of the wind if the pilots speed in still air is 230 miles per hour
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Question 976773: If you are driving 55mph, how far will u travel in 5seconds?
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Question 976812: Two painters, Joe and Sam, will paint a house working together. Working alone, Joe can paint the house in sixteen hours and Sam can paint it in twelve hours. How long will it take Joe and Sam to paint the house working together?
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Question 976842: If a train is 1 kilometre long and doing 80 kph and you are in your car travelling at 110 kph how long will long and what distance will it take to overtake it

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Question 976899: Two planes, which are 3740 miles apart, fly toward each other. Their speeds differ by 35 mph. If they pass each other in 4 hours, what is the speed of each?
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Question 976928: A clock was exactly on time at noon Monday. At 8pm on Tuesday, it was 128 second slow. At that same rate, how much did it lose in 1/2 hour?
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Question 976921: A cruise boat travels 36 miles downstream in 4 hours and returns to its starting point upstream in 12 hours. Find the speed of the stream.
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Question 976932: If Steve leaves the beach at 3 am and drives along the highway at 55mph and one hour later his friend leaves heading the same way driving at 65 mph how many hours will it take for his friend to catch up to Steve

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Question 976808: a car rental agency charges $200 per week plus $0.1 per mile to rent a car. How many miles can you travel in one week for $230?
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Question 976993: If the lake is 60miles away and rene is drining at 40 miles per hour the entire time how long will it take her to get to the lake
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Question 977018: Janet jogs 10 miles then cycles 45.5 miles. She completes both in 4.5 hours. She cycles 6 mph faster than she jogs. What is her cycling rate?
I need to know the steps for solving this.
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Question 977031: These are the round-trip distances that city buses traveled on different routes each month. Calculate the total distance, in miles, that buses travel each route in one year.
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Question 976558: 2 trains leaving the station at the same time, going to the same place 120 miles away. Train 1 non stop at 60 mph, train 2 at 90 mph has to stop for 15 minutes on the way. Which train arrives first?
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Question 977160: It took a small plane 2 hours longer to fly 375 miles against the wind than it took the plane to fly the same distance with the wind. The rate of the wind was 25 mph. Find the rate of the plane in calm air.
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Question 977201: Jacob decided to ride his bicycle across the country during his 3-month summer vacation. The route he took from Washington, DC to Portland, Oregon, covered a total of 3420 miles. To keep his mind occupied during some of the long flat stretches of countryside, he often did algebra problems in his head. One day, for example, he determined that his distance from his starting point was exactly 60 miles more than twice the distance remaining until the finishing point. How far was Jacob from the finishing point of his journey when he made that calculation?
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Question 977224: If someone say'd they rode a Katana 650 from Little Rock, Ar to Dallas, TX in 2 hours and 40 minutes, is it believable? What average speed did they do? Should I believe a good rider could do it?

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Question 977297: Rich can walk 3 miles in the same amount of time that Donna can walk 2 miles. Rich walks a rate 2 miles per hour faster than Donna. At that rate, what is the number of miles that Rich walks in 2 hours and 10 minutes?
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Question 977308: A car is traveling at an average speed of 18 km/hr
(i) Express its average speed in m/sec.
(ii) Find the distance it travel in 3 hours.
(iii) Find how far it travel in 25 seconds.

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Question 977295: Maria normally spends half an hour driving to work. When her average speed is ten miles per hour slower than usual, the trip takes ten minutes longer. How many miles does she drive to work?
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Question 977296: Mr. Pillot always rides his bicycle to work, and he begims his ride at the same time every day. If he averages 10 miles per hour, he arrives at work 2 minutes late, but, if he averages 15 miles per hour, he arrives 1 minute early. Express your answer as a decimal How many miles does Mr. Pillot ride to work? Express answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
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Question 977359: a train leaves Philadelphia at 1:00pm. a second train leaves the same city traveling in the same direction at 8:00pm. the second train travel 119 mph faster than the first. if the second train overtakes the first at 11:00pm, what is the speed of each of the two trains?
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Question 977373: tina drove from A to B a distance of 1000km in exactly 12 hours 14 minutes she drove at the speed of 100km/hr on the highway and 50km/hr in towns.What distance did she drive at each speed?
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Question 977405: a tiger running 100m race, accelerates for one third time of the total time and then moves with uniform speed. then find the total time taken by the tiger to run 100 m if the acceleration of the tiger is 8m/s square is?
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Question 977449: Two cyclist leave from the intersection of two roads at the same time. The angle between the two roads is 82�. In one hour, one cyclist travels 18km along one road and the other travels 14 km along the other road. how far apart, in a direct line, are the cyclist at the end of this hour ?
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Question 977452: Given the function g=(t^(2)-3)/t, find the function that gives the gradient of the curve of the function g at any point on the curve.
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Question 975019: in one minute a ant climb in pole is 9 inch and in second minute he will down in 2 inches the what is time taken by ant in climbing 60 inches,,,???
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Question 977454: Solve: 3cosx-2=0
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