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Question 400797: 500 miles in 4 hours and 30 minutes
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Question 400823: About how many kilometers is 55 miles? Also can you list steps!?
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Question 400837: Two cyclists, 60 miles apart, start riding toward each other at the same time. One cycles 2 times as fast as the other. If they meet 2 hours later, what is the speed (in mi/h) of the faster cyclist?
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Question 400866: What is the average speed (in km/h) of an airplane that travels 320 km in 1.2 hours?
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Question 400966: Homework problem- this has to be solved using systems of equations, not a graph. I have to show all work, so I'll definitely need the equations used:
HIS taxi company charges 1 dollar per mile, with a $3 service fee. HERS taxi company charges 75 cents per mile, with a $5 service fee. At what distances do the two taxi companies charge the same amount?
Thanks!!
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Question 400992: Andrew and Brittany walked for 2 hours and covered 6 miles. How long did it take them to walk 1 mile?
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Question 400978: if a 2 mile train traveling at 12 mph goes through a 1 mile tunnel, how long does it take to go through the tunnel completley
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Question 401024: The Natchez Trace Parkway is a historical 444-mile route from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee. A couple drove the Trace in four days. Each day they drove 6 miles more than the previous day. How many miles did they drive each day?
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Question 401063: on a trip of 525 miles how many minutes faster is it to travel at 60 miles per hour than 50 miles per hour
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Question 401110: How long, in seconds, is required for a car traveling at a speed of 123 km/hr to travel 230 m
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Question 401154: A driver travels 10 miles to work at a constant speed and travels the same distance home at a constant speed. His speed on the return trip was fifteen miles per hour faster, and the total time for both trips was one hour. Find his speed on the way to work.
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Question 401156: Jeff and Sharon drove for 4 hours with a wind speed of 10 mph. Traveling against the same wind speed, it took them 6 hours to make the return trip. How fast were they traveling in still air?

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Question 401191: If you drive 20 miles and it takes you 30 minutes, your average speed is _______.
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Question 401196: an airplane traveling from san francisco northeast to chicago travels 1260 km in 3.5 hours. What is the airplanes velocity?
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Question 401181: A bicylcist has an average velocity of 35 km/hr. How far will she travel in 6 hours?
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Question 401179: How long will it take you to complete a 135 mile trip if your average velocity is 45 mph?
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Question 401205: a randy johnson fastball is thrown with a velocity of 41.5 m/s. how long does it take the ball to reach the plate that is 18.44 meters from the pitcher's mound?
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Question 401155: Two jets leave Chicago at the same time, one flying due west at 750km/hr, the other flying due east at 850km/hr. After how long will the planes be 4000 km apart?
~Thanks, David
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Question 401206: A dog was walking along a train track one day, and traveled along that track onto a train bridge. when the dog was 1/4 of the way across the bridge, he heard a train whistle from an oncoming train that was coming in the same direction the dog has already come. the dog bounded away from the train and made it to the end of the bridge at exactly the same time as the train. what the dog didnt know, but what was also true, was that the dog could have bounded toward the train and made it to the "start" of the bridge at exactly the same time as the train. the train was traveling at a speed of 30 miles/hour. how fast was the dog traveling
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Question 401172: A light is mounted on the side of a building, 60 feet above the ground. A six-foot-tall man is standing 12 feet from the building. How long is his shadow?
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Question 401271: What is a planes speed if it traveled 450 miles in 90 mins
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Question 401310: Im having trouble with some word problems i have many for my homework i understand the easy work ones but i thought i put 3 differnt kinds up so that i can finish the rest of my homework by examples of these ones.Can you please help me?
1)A jogger ran 8 miles and then walked 6miles. The jogger's running speed was 5 miles per hour faster then her walking speed. Th total time for jogging and walking was 2 hrs find the joggers walking speed and jogging speed.
i made a table
D R T
run 8mi x+5
walk 6mi x
total 2hrs
i came up the equation 8 6
___ + ____ =2
x+5 x

2)Another one i cant figure out is A car travels for 100miles at a uniform speed. If the speed is increased by 5 miles per hour, the trip would take one hour less time. What is the car's original speed?
Im not sure how to get this one except i know to divide distance by time and the distance is 100 and the time is x-1 and the rate is x+5 i think i dont know how to set this up.

3) Working together amy and bob can complete a job in 12 hours. Working alone it takes amy 4/3 as much time as bob to do the job how long will it take each to do the job working alone?
For this i have a table and some work done but i think its the 4/3 is throwing me off
time hrs job
amy 4/3x 1 divided by 4/3x
bob x i divided by x
total 1 divided by 12
i divided both sides by 12x(4/3x)
and got 12x+12(4/3x) = x(4/3x)
12x+16x=4/3x^2
28x=4/3x^2
4/3x^2-28x=0
now im stuck

IF someone could please help me that would be wonderfull and i thank you soo much

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Question 401313: Alex is a faster runner than Bob. Alex runs 3 yards every second. Bob runs 2.5 yards every second. Alex gives Bob a 30 yard head start in a race, and reaches the finish line exactly 2 seconds before Bob. How many yards did Alex run?
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Question 401299: Find the length of the diagonal and the area of a square with perimeter equal to 1.2√2 inches.
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Question 401317: Two trains leave the station at the same time, one heading west and the other east. The westbound train travels 20 miles per hour slower than the eastbound train. If the two trains are 340 miles apart after 2 hours, what is the rate of the westbound train?
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Question 401467: how many miles from alfred maine to sun city arizona?

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Question 401534: If you traveled from one spot to another distance going, say 60 mph, how long would it take to travel in the car to drive 75 miles?
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Question 401527: a car can travel 75 miles in the same amount of time that it takes a moped to travel 25 miles if the moped is traveling at 40 mp less than the car, what is the rate of each
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Question 401544: the river current is 8 mph. a jet ski can travel 34 miles downstream in the same time that it takes to go 18 miles upstream. what is the speed of th jet ski with no current?
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Question 401609: a jet flew east at a speed of 550 mph. on the same trip back west the jet was only able to fly 400 mph and the trip took 2 hours longer. how long did the trip east take?
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Question 401626: a truck enters a hightway driving 60 mph. a car enters at the same place 10 min later and drives in the same direction going 72 mph. from the time the car enters the highway, how long iwll it take the car to pas the truck?
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Question 401650: A cyclist travels 2 1/2 kilometers per hour. At this rate, how many kilometers will he travel in 3 1/2 hours?
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Question 401608: how long does it take an object weighing 36 grams traveling 1260 fps take to hit a target 50 feet away
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Question 401805: A Cessna 175 can average 130 mph. If a trip takes 2 hours one way and the return takes 1 hour and 15 minutes, find the wind speed, assuming it is constant.
This is an algebra equation. I don't even know where to begin. But I know that the wind speed would be x. I'm not quite sure if I need to add or subtract the two time differences. Thank you so much for helping me.
Melissa
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Question 401853: A car travels 210 miles in 3.5 hours. What is the average speed of the car?

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Question 401962: two cars start at the same time at a given point and travel in the same direction at a constant speed of 40 miles per hour and 55 miles per hour. After how long are the cars 5 miles apart?
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Question 401999: Sylvia walked to Cathy's house at 2km/h, and then rode a bicycle back to her own house at 10km/h. The entire trip took 3 hours. How long a time did Sylvia walk?
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Question 402027: A plane is 300 miles west of Chicago Illinois and is flying west at 500 miles per hour. How long will it take for the plane to be 2175 miles west of Chicago?
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Question 402028: One runner passes another runner traveling in the same direction on a hiking trail. The faster runner is jogging 2 miles per hour faster than the lower runner.Determine how long it will be before the faster runner is 3/4 mile ahead of the slower runner.
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Question 402045: A solution contains 3% salt. How much water should be added to 20 ounces of this solution to make a 1.2% solution?
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Question 402048: If an investment of $25,000 earns 9% annual interest, approximate the value of the investment after 24 years.
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Question 402040: Investors sometimes use the rule of 72 to determine the time required to double an investment. If 72 is divided by the annual earned on an investment, the result approximates the number of years needed to double the investment. For example, an investment earning 6% annual interest will double in value approximately every 72/6 = 12 years.
(a) Approximate the number of years required to double an investment earning 9% annual interest.
(b) If an investment of $10,000 earns 12% annual interest, approximate the value of the investment after 18 years.
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Question 402085: train a and train b are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. train a is traveling at 60 miles per hour and train b is traveling at 70 miles per hour. train a passes a station at 6:15 a.m. if train b passes the same station at 6:45 a.m, at what time will train b catch up to train a
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