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Question 1025715: Solve
dy/dx =(x+y+4)/(x-y-6) (8marks)
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Question 1025773: If you travel a distance of 100 mph and your destination is 100 miles away how long would it take to get there
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Question 1025773: If you travel a distance of 100 mph and your destination is 100 miles away how long would it take to get there
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Question 1025800: An airplane averaged 160 miles per hour with the wind and 112 miles per hour against the wind. Determine the speed of the plane and the effect of the wind resistance.
Please help! Thanks!
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Question 1025801: A Pontiac Grand Am enters the Will Rogers Turnpike traveling at 50 miles per hour. One-half hour later, a Ford Mustang enters the turnpike at the same location and travels in the same direction at 80 miles per hour. How long will it take for the mustang to catch up to the Grand Am? When it catches up, how far will the two cars have traveled on the turnpike?
Please help! Thanks!
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Question 1025861: An airplane averaged 160 miles per hour with the wind and 112 miles per hour against the wind. Determine the speed of the plane and the effect of the wind resistance.
Please help me with equation! Thanks!
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Question 1025855: If an air Craft is going with the speed of 30 km/h. How much distancd will be cover in 10,second's?
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Question 1025945: BJ can overhaul a boat's diesel inboard engine in 20 hours. His apprentice takes 6 hours to do the same job. how long would it take them working together assuming no gain or loss in efficiency
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Question 1025975: Ben drove 147 miles to the beach and the same distance back home. At the BEGINING of the trip, he drove for 1.5 hours at an average speed of 50 miles per hour. Then he stopped for lunch. How far was he from the beach when he stopped for lunch?
After lunch, it took Ben 1.2 hours to get to the beach. What was his average speed, in miles per hour, for that part of the trip?
For the return trip, Ben did not stop. His average speed was 55 miles per hour. How long, to the nearest hundredth of an hour, did the return trip take?
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Question 1025952: Exponents and radicals chapter (Synthesis)
Based on r(L)= 2 squareroot 5L.
"Does a car traveling twice as fast as another car leave a skid mark that is twice as long?" Why or why not?
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Question 1026001: Dillon and Sarah hiked 5 miles in one hour and fifteen minutes. At what rate, in miles per hour, were they traveling?

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Question 1026027: Sarah drives 30 miles in 40 minutes. How many miles can she drive in 60 minutes?
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Question 1026000: Miguel walked 10 km into the country. He returned walking 3 km/h slower. The total time for the round trip was 7 h. How fast did he walk on each part of the trip?
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Question 1026096: two cars are traveling and leave in opposite directions at the same time. One car is traveling 20 mph faster than the other car. After 6 hours they are 780 miles apart. what is the speed of the two cars?
I have tried to divide 780 by 6 then subtract 20 to find the speed, but im not sure that's how you are supposed to solve this question.
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Question 1026121: a car travels along an inclined road, in the desert, at 45 mph for 6 hours, from point a to point b if the horizontal distance of this section of the road is 265 miles what is the angle of elevation of the road to the nearest tenth
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Question 1026156: Two brothers leave from the same location, one in a car and the other on a bicycle, to meet up at their grandmother�s house for dinner. If one brother averages 30 miles per hour in the car and the other averages 12 miles per hour on the bicycle, then it takes the brother on the bicycle 1 hour less than 3 times as long as the other in the car. How long does it take each of them to make the trip?
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Question 1026157: Jaime and Alex leave the same location and travel in opposite directions. Traffic conditions enabled Alex to average 14 miles per hour faster than Jaime. After 1� hours they are 159 miles apart. Find the speed at which each was able to travel.
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Question 1026161: Joe and Mary wish to take a road trip together and need to decide whose car they will take. Joe calculated that his car is able to travel 210 miles on 12 gallons of gasoline. Mary calculates that her car travels 300 miles on 19 gallons. Which of their cars gets more miles to the gallon?
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Question 1026141: The speed of a stream is 5 mph. A boat travels 9 miles upstream in the same time it takes to travel 19 miles downstream. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 1026180: jen lives 105 miles from school, beth lives 98 miles from school. both leave at the same time and get home at the same time. jen drives 8 mph faster than beth. how fast did each drive?
I am asking how to set the problem up.
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Question 1026162: How fast would someone have to go to catch a friend that is 19 miles ahead of him traveling at speeds of 25 mph?
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Question 1026187: Moving walkways are common in airports. Drenell conducts an experiment in which he walks with a 126-foot walkway and then against the walkway. It takes Drenell 18 seconds to walk the 126-foot walkway going with the walkway and it takes him 63 seconds to walk the walkway going against the walkway. What is Drenell's normal walking speed?
Please help me with equation! Thanks
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Question 1026221: Would you be able to help me with the following question?
if i drive to the railway station at 80 km-1 i will be 15 min late for my train. If I drive at 110 km h-1 i will be 10 minutes early. How far do I live from the station?
Thanks,
Bob
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Question 1026217: After traveling 120 miles at the same speed for 4 hours Dixie increase their speed by 10 miles per hour how long does it take Dixie to travel the next 280 miles
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Question 1026232: The distance between jfk airport and la is 2500 miles. Let s be airspeed of jet. Wind speed 100 miles.
A. Equation S took 2 he and 5 min From NY to la against wind. I need an equation for this.
B. Solve equation
C. Write and find out how long it takes to fly against wind between my and la. Wind =150 per hour and airspeed is 525 per hour.
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Question 1026349: Danny can swim at 1/5 of amile per hour.He can swims for 1/3 of an hour.how far does he swims
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Question 1026420: the distance between 2 towns, A and B, 300 km. C is exactly halfway between A and B.At 09h00 a cyclist leave from B towards C at x km/h and an hour later,at 10h00, `n second cyclist leave A towards C and is driving 5km/h faster than the first cyclist. They reach C at the same time.
Questions:
Calculate, in terms of x, the time what each cyclist needed to reach town C.
calculate what time they arrived at town C.
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Question 1026459: if a bicycle rider travels for 10 min at an average speed of 22.8 miles per hour .how far did the rider go
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Question 1026491: Smith was traveling X miles to Boston at M miles per hour and arrived 2 hours late for the party. How fast should he have traveled to have arrived on time? ---
I got xm/x/m-2, which I know is wrong. An explanation of how to do this problem correctly would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Question 1026345: Bill's car: average fuel consumption: 20 miles per gallon
Fred's car: average fuel consumption: 40 miles per gallon
fred wants to buy a new car. each week he wants to save the same amount of fuel as Bill. what should be the average fuel consumption of fred's new car? explain your reasoning clearly

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Question 1026574: Angie walked a distance of 90 meters east in 70 seconds. What was her velocity?

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Question 1026579: River c is 200 miles longer Than river D. if the sum of their lengths is 5,550 miles what is the length of each river?
The length of river c is __ miles , and the length of river D is __ miles. ?
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Question 1026577: Please explain how to set up this problem as an algebraic equation. "Two cars started to move at the same time in the same direction, but one was moving twice as fast as the other. Six hours later, the cars were 204 miles apart. Find the speed of each car."
I'm not sure the "how" or "why" of the set up. Thank you for your help.
Ian
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Question 1026550: the large aircraft traveled at 1140 miles per hour for the first 2 hours of the flight. for the next 6 hours it traveled at 1 1/2 times the original speed. what was the total distance covered?
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Question 1026612: Jim and Joe leave their homes at the same time and drive toward each other. Jim drives at 60 miles per hour while Joe drives at 30 miles per hour. They pass each other in 10 minutes. How far apart were Jim and Joe when they started?
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Question 1026312: at first an athlete jogs at 5 miles per hour and then jogs at 6 miles per hour, traveling 9 miles in 1.6 hours. How long does the athlete jog at each speed? (T represents the amount of time the athlete jogs at 5 mph. Then 1.6 -t represents the amount of time the athlete jogs at 6 mph)
The athlete jogged ( ) hour(s) at a speed of 5 miles per hour and ( )hour(s) at a speed of 6 miles per hour. (type integers or decimals)
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Question 1024890: The number of bacteria in a yeast alter grows at a rate which is proportional to the number prestent ,if the population of a colony of yeast bacteria triples in one hour,find the number of bacteria which will be present at the end of 5hours.
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Question 1026741: A motorist travelled to a distant city in 2 hours and returned by another route that is 30 miles longer. On the return trip she travelled 10 miles per hour faster and took 6 minutes longer. Find the length of the shorter route.
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