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Question 1148471: Jim traveled 640 miles in 8 hours. What is the unit rate of his time travelled? How far will Jim travel in 12 hours if he continues at this rate?
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Question 1148620: ronald can row 24 miles in 3 hours when he rows with the current. against the same current, ronald can now only 2/3 of this distance in 4 hours. find the rate of the current (use 2 variables, thanks!)
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Question 1148683: A plane made a trip of 350 km with the wind in an hour. Returning against the wind it took an hour and 10 minutes. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the rate of the wind. (2 variables and full solutions please, thanks!)
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Question 1148730: A pilot takes a trip to visit relatives there at a speed of 100 miles per hour. On the way back home, the pilot travels at 80 miles per hour. If the round trip took nine hours, how far did the pilot travel to visit her relatives?
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Question 1148759: A boat travelling at full speed against a current goes 14 kph. Travelling at half speed with current goes 10 kph. Find the rate of the current and the maximum speed of the boat. (use x and y variables and show a full solution please? thanksss!)
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Question 1148915: The search and rescue team at Station Two estimates that they can reach Bud and Travis in 40 minutes if they take the direct route from their location. To do this, they would need to travel at
A
mph.

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Question 1148943: Mario leaves the office and drives downtown at 48 mph. Danica leaves at the same time driving in the same direction at 42 mph. If Mario leaves office at 5:00 pm, at what time they will be 15 miles apart?
Jimmy's Plane leaves at 9:00 am at 40 mph. An hour later, Sally's plane leaves the same airport travelling in the same direction at 60 mph. At what time will Sally's plane catch up to Jimmy's ?
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Question 1148944: Given < (3n+5)
a) Name the Complement
b) Name the Supplement

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Question 1148968: Paul walked 256 miles on Wednesday. He walked 316 on Thursday. How much further did Paul walk on Thursday?
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Question 1148972: A tourist starts to walk up a mountain path that is 31 miles long at the rate of 4 miles per hour. After walking for a while, he gets tired and decides to get a taxi. The taxi gets him to the top traveling at a constant speed of 50 mph. If the tourist reaches the destination 2 hours after he started, what distance does he have to pay the cab driver for?

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Question 1148982: The average speed of a car is three times as fast as the average speed of a cyclist. To travel 225 km, the cyclist requires 5 h more than the car. Determine the average speed of the cyclist and the car.
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Question 1149025: Members of the Healthy Reading Club ran from their club house to a first rest stop at a speed of 9 km/h, and from there to the second rest stop at a speed of 5 km/h. They returned along the same course, running at 10 km/h from the second rest stop to the first, and at 6 km/h the rest of the way to the club house. If it took a total of 2.5 hours to run both ways between the club house and the first rest stop, and 3 hours to run both ways between the first and second rest stops. How far, in km, did they run altogether?
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Question 1149024: A jogger has attempted to run across a railroad bridge, but sees a train coming after competing 3/4 of the trip. If the train is traveling at 30 km/h, and if it is possible for the jogger to just escape being hit by the train running at full speed to either end of the bridge, what is the minimum speed, in km/h, that this jogger must be able to run?
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Question 1149023: Joan and Jim run around the same circular track, starting together and running in the same direction. Joan takes 3 minutes to complete one circuit of the track while Jim takes 7.5 minutes to run the same distance. What is the value of x if Joan passes Jim every x minutes?
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Question 1149021: A family vacation trip took 12 hours. Of the total distance, 4/5 was in a car and 1/5 was in a boat, and the car traveled 5 times as fast as the boat. How much more time, in hours, was spent in the boat than in the car?
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Question 1149092: The road from A to B is 10km uphill followed by 20km downhill. A motorcyclist averages 36km/h uphill and 90km/h downhill. Calcilate the average speed from B to A
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Question 1149105: The road from A to B is 10km uphill followed by 20km downhill. A motorcyclist averages 36km/h uphill and 90km/h downhill. Calculate the average speed from
1. A to B 2. B to A
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Question 1149147: From the top of a hill 42.5 m above a stream, the angles of depression to a point on the near shore and a point on the opposite shore are 42.3° and 40.6°, respectively. Find the width of the stream between these two points. Include a diagram.
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Question 1149146: From the top of a tree 15.0 m high on the shore of a pond, the angle of depression to a point on the other shore is 6.70°. What is the width of the pond?
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Question 1149144: The base-station antenna of a two-way radio is on the roof of a fire hall, 18.0 m above ground level. The signal from a fire truck arrives at the antenna at an angle of 2.10° relative to the road. How far away is the fire truck? Include a diagram.
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Question 1149145: From the observation deck of Toronto’s CN tower, 346 m above the surface of Lake Ontario, the angle of depression of sighting a sailboat out on the lake is observed to be 21.6°. Determine how far away the sailboat is from the base of the tower. Include a diagram.
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Question 1149143: Your survey boat travels along the base of very high cliffs at the Western Brook Pond fjord in Newfoundland. A spectacular waterfall cascades down the side of the rock formation. You can get a very accurate measure of the distance from the boat to the rock face (strong echoes return to your range finder), but you cannot get a good reflection off the top of the falls. You use a sighting device to measure the angle of elevation as 78.0°. If the distance to the rock face is 127 m, how tall are the falls?
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Question 1149151: A pilot 4220 m directly above the front of a straight train observes that the angle of depression to the end of the train is 68.2°. Find the length of the train.
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Question 1149150: The angle of elevation to the top of a building from a point on the ground 105 m from its base is 51.3°. Find the height of the building.
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Question 1149148: An observer in an airplane 1520 ft. above the surface of the ocean observes that the angle of depression to a ship is 28.8°. Find the straight-line distance from the plane to the ship.
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Question 1149149: The distance PQ across a swamp is desired. A line PR of length 59.3 m is laid off at right angles to PQ. Angle PRQ is measured at 47.6°. Find the distance PQ. Include a diagram.
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Question 1149172: a lorry travelled a total of 1545km in 5 days.the driver travelled the same distance each day. how far did he drive?

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Question 1149177: .fig aedc is a square.ba=bc and ae=ac. the area of aedc is 25cm2 and angle b =90 degrees . calculate the lenght of AB.
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Question 1149197: Two gardeners can do the weekly yard maintenance is 18 minutes if they work together. The older gardener takes 33 minutes more than the younger gardener to finish the job my himself. How long does it take for each gardener to do the weekly yard maintenance individually?

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Question 1149196: A couple took a small airplane for a flight to the wine country for a romantic dinner and then returned home. The plane flew a total of 8 hours and each way the trip was 424 miles. If the plane was flying at 180 miles per hour, what was the speed of the wind that affected the plane?
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Question 1149211: After diving 112 km,4/7 of a trip is completed.how long is the total trip

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Question 1149211: After diving 112 km,4/7 of a trip is completed.how long is the total trip

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Question 1149233: Two planes, which are 2160 miles apart, fly toward each other. Their speeds differ by 40mph. If they pass each other in 4 hours, what is the speed of each?

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Question 1149262: A motorcycle travels 196 miles in the same amount of time that a car travels 161. The rate of the motorcycle is 10 miles per hour faster than the rate of the car. Find the rate of the car
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Question 1149270: Bob leaves Pittsburgh traveling west. Jim leaves from the same point two hours later and travels the same route at 18 miles per hour faster than bob. If Jim wants to catch up four hours after he leaves, how fast will he have to go?
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Question 1149393: Mary and John have both completed a trip up an escalator. John took 15 steps on the way up and took 12 seconds to reach the top. Mary took only 7 steps, and took 18 seconds to reach the top. How many steps does the escalator have in total?
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Question 1149442: the total distance travelled by a boat 1 hour upstream and 30 minutes downstream in which the rate of current is3 kph
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