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Question 327862: Throwing a wrench. An angry construction worker throws
his wrench downward from a height of 128 feet with an
initial velocity of 32 feet per second. The height of the
wrench above the ground after t seconds is given by
S(t)=-16t^2-32t+128
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Question 327879: If a bicyclist rides at 10 miles per hour for 10 minutes, and then speeds up to 20 miles per hour for the next 20 minutes, what is her average speed for this ride?

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Question 327823: this is a physics question....a car travels 35 km west, 90 km north in two hours. What is its average speed?
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Question 327892: A river flows at a rate of 4 km./hr. for the length of its scenic route. In order for a boat to travel the 60 km. upriver and then return in a total of 8 hours, how fast must the boat be able to travel in still water?
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Question 327938: how long does it take to travel 4.25 kilometers travelling at 5 kilometers per hour
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Question 327936: the distance between two towns P and Q is 120 km. A car travelled from P to Q at an average speed of 80km/h. On its return journey, the time taken was 30 minutes shorter. Calculate its average speed for the whole journey
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Question 327944: how long does it take to travel 9.35 kilometers travelling at 5 kilometers per hour
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Question 327974: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STATION ATENA AND STATION BARCENA IS 84 MILES. A TRAIN STARTS FROM ATENA TOWARDS BARCENA. A BIRD STARTS AT THE SAME TIME FROM BARCENA STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE MOVING TRAIN. ON REACHING THE TRAIN, IT INSTANEOUSLY TURNS BACK AND RETURNS BARCENA. THE BIRD MAKES THESE JOURNEYS FROM BARCENA TO THE TRAIN AND BACK TO BARCENA CONTINUOUSLY TILL THE TRAIN REACH BARCENA. THE BIRD FINALLY RETURNS TO BARCENA AND REST. CALCULATE THE TOTAL DISTANCE IN MILES THE BIRD TRAVELS IN THE FOLLOWING CASE:
THE BIRD FLIES AT 80 MILES PER HOUR AND THE SPEED OF THE TRAIN IS 60 MILES PER HOUR.

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Question 328105: #1)Avoiding a collision. A car is traveling on a road that
is perpendicular to a railroad track. When the car is
30 meters from the crossing, the car�s new collision
detector warns the driver that there is a train 50 meters
from the car and heading toward the same crossing. How far is the train from the crossing?
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Question 328134: If you're driving 40 mph to a lake 60 miles away how many minutes will it take to get there?
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Question 328125: John and William leave their home traveling in opposite directions on a straight road. John drives 20 miles per hour faster than William After 4 hours they are 250 miles apart. Find their rates
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Question 328201: Two cars leave a town and travel in opposite directions. The first car is traveling at 45mpm, the second car is traveling at 55 mph. In how many hours will they be 300 miles apart? If could help with formula also Thank you very much
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Question 328124: John and William leave their home traveling in opposite directions on a straight road. John drives 20 miles per hour faster than William> After 4 hours they are 250 miles apart. Find their rates
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Question 328289: chad drove 3 tinmes as fast as katy pedaled. In fact, chad drove 90 miles in 2 hours less than it took katy to pedal 40 miles. how fast did each of them travel? how long did they travel?
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Question 328302: the distance between Dharamsal and delhi is 529 kms. if you have to reach there in 11 hours from the time you start then at what speed you have to drive your car.
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Question 328336: Two planes leave Newark Airport at the same time. The rate of speed of the northbound plane is 100 mils per faster than that of the Southbound plane. At the end of 5 hrs, the planes are 2000 mils apart. Find the rate of each.
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Question 328338: two planes leave newark airport at the same time. The rate of speed of the northbound plane is 100 mils per hour.,than that of the southbound plane. at the end of 5 hours, the planes are 2000 miles apart. Find the rate of each?
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Question 328280: ortiz travels twice as fast as his brother and therefore makes the 350 mile trip back home in 5 hours less less time. how fast does each drive,and how long does each travel?
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Question 328282: seven times the larger number is 8 more than four times the smaller. also, three times the smaller is 19 less than twice the larger. what are the numbers?
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Question 328366: the speed of a passenger train is 6 mph faster than the sppeed of a freight train. the passenger train travels 300 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 270 miles. find the speed of each train.
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Question 328290: three times the number twice of blue marbles exceeds twice the number of red marbles by 18. Also 5 times the number of blue marbles if 2 less than 6 times the number of red marbles. how many of each are there?
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Question 328411: An airplane took 2.5 hours to fly 625 miles with the wind. It took 4 hours and 10 minutes to make the return trip against the same wind. Find the wind speed and the speed of the plane in still air. (Show all work)
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Question 328528: use the discriminant to determine the number of x-intercepts for each quadratic function
f(x) = 3x^2 - 5x +1
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Question 328546: a baseball player hit a ball straight up in the air it left the bat with a speed of 120km/hr. how fast will the ball be traveling when the catcher catches it(no air resistance
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Question 328695: How long will it takes a bus to travel a distance of 90 kilometer as a speed of 25 kilometer per hour?
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Question 328695: How long will it takes a bus to travel a distance of 90 kilometer as a speed of 25 kilometer per hour?
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Question 328732: in the rafting situation, a boat goes 30 kilometer downstream in 75 minutes and the same distance up stream in 90 minutes, calculate the speed of the stream in kilometer per hour.
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Question 328759: The average radius R of the orbit of a planet around the sun is determined by R = T2/3, where T is the number of years for one orbit and R is measured in astronomical units (AU). If it takes Pluto 248.53 years to make one orbit of the sun, then what is the average radius of the orbit of Pluto? If the average radius of the orbit of Neptune is 30.08 AU, then how many years does it take Neptune to complete one orbit of the sun?

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Question 328806: What is the speed of a plane that travels at a rate of 500mph against a wind of r mph
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Question 328832: At the beginning of a walk, Roberto and Juanita are 7.7 miles apart. If they leave at the same time and walk in the same directions. Roberto over take jaunita in 11 hours. If they walk towards each other they meet in one hour. What are their speeds?
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Question 328875: The recipe requires 1/8 sugar to make 15 cookies. If i want to make 22 cookies, how much sugar do i need?
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Question 328874: Ms. Vu can run 2 5/8 miles in 1 1/4 [miles] hour. At this rate, how many miles can she run in 4 2/5 hour?
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Question 328874: Ms. Vu can run 2 5/8 miles in 1 1/4 [miles] hour. At this rate, how many miles can she run in 4 2/5 hour?
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Question 328819: Christine went shopping and bought each of her nine nephews a gift, either a video costing $14.95 or a CD costing $16.88. She spent $138.41 on gifts. How many videos and CDs did she buy?
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Question 329025: An airplane can travel 450 miles into the wind in 2 hours and 25 minutes. This plane takes the same time to travel 630 miles with the wind. Find the speed of the airplane without any wind.
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Question 329060: Compute the speed of the car traveling with 2x^2 = 25 across distance
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Question 329132: Junior's boat will go 15 mph in still water. If he can go 12 miles downstream in the same amount of time as it takes to go 9 miles upstream, then what is the speed of the current?
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Question 329141: If Olu drove for 2.5 hours at 65 mph, how far did she drive?
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Question 328826: The Clarke family went sailing on a lake. Their boat averaged 6 kilometers per hour. The Rourke family took their outboard runabout for a trip on the lake for the same amount of time. Their boat averaged 14 kilometers per hour. The Rourke family traveled 10 kilometers farther than the Clarke family. How many hours did each family spend on their boat trip?
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Question 329126: A six passenger airplane cruises at 180 mph in the calm air. If the plane flies 7 miles with the wind in the same amount of time as it flies 5 miles against the wind, then what is the wind speed?
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Question 329161: At 8am, your odometer read 2025 kilometers, and noon, it reads 2295 kilometers, what was your average speed
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Question 329209: Two cyclists start biking from a trail's start 3 hours apart. The second cyclist travels at 10 miles per hour and starts 3 hours after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6 miles per hour. How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with the first from the time the second cyclist started biking?

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Question 329260: how far do you travel in 5 mins at 480 mph
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