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Question 445164: Russell rode his bicycle for a local bike-a-thon. The bike-a-thon started at 9:00 A.M. and ended at 4:00 P.M. By 10:00 A.M., Russell had ridden 11 miles. Except for a one-hour lunch break, Russell rode at the same pace until 4:00 P.M.
How many miles did Russell ride in the bike-a-thon?

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Question 445225: two cars leave towns at the same time in oppoistite directions one travels 35 mi/h and the other 40 mi/h in how many hours will they be 15 miles apart?
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Question 445244: A man travels for work averaging 40mph. On the return trip he averages 50mph, and it takes him an hour less time. How long was the return trip?
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Question 444848: two joggers start at the same time from opposite ends of a 12mile course. one jogger is running at a rate of 5mph, and the other is running at the rate of 7 mph, how long after they begin will they meet?
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Question 445485: What is the average speed of traveling 700 miles in 9 hours?
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Question 445485: What is the average speed of traveling 700 miles in 9 hours?
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Question 445478: I need help setting up this word problem:
Susan drives 40 miles to work each day. Marylin drives three miles more than half Susan's distance each day. How many miles does Marylin drive to work each day?
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Question 445377: What route of travel gives a total distance of 1,339 miles?
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Question 445323: Hello I am still having trouble with this find the rate problem. If you could help me I have tried to find the time but it just does't work out to the right answer and I have the have the answer. But I just don't know how. I would be very grateful.
Jeremy walked 10 miled in one-half hour longer than it took Hugh to walk 7 miles. Jeremy walked at an average rate of one-half mile per hour faster than Hugh. Find the rates of both Jeremy and Hugh.
Thank You so much,
Tiffany

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Question 445533: A boat heads directly across a river at 8 mi/h. The river flows downstream at 10 mi/h. Find the resulting speed and direction of the boat.
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Question 445520: A man can row at 5km/h in stationary water. It takes him 4 hours to row upstream towards a bridge and back to his house. How far is the bridge from the house if the river flows at 2km/h?
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Question 445599: how much gas will it take to go 479 miles
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Question 445646: from point a to point b it takes 55 minutes you are 1/5 into the journey how long have you left to get to point b
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Question 445673: If a car traveled 16 miles in 30 minutes how many miles per hour was it driving?
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Question 445757: A motorboat takes 3 hrs to travel 144 km going upstream the return trip takes 2 hrs going downstream what is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current.
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Question 445866: Two motorcycles traveled towards each other from cities that are bout 665 km apart at rates of 110km/hr and 80km/hr. They started at the same time. In how many hours will they meet?
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Question 445844: A boat travels 10 km upstream and 10 km back. The time for the round trip is 10 hours. The speed of the stream is 4 km/hr. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 445754: During the first part of a trip, a canoeist travels 50 miles at a certain speed. The canoeist travels 2 miles on the second part of the trip at a speed 5 mph slower. the total time for the trip is 3hrs. What was the speed on each part of the trip?
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Question 446106: A boat is 92 feet from the base of a cliff. If the distance from the top of the cliff to the boat is 23 less than twice the height of the cliff to the water, find the height of the cliff. Round to the nearest tenth of afoot if necessary.
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Question 446104: A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at a height of 9ft. Find the length of the ladder if the length is 3ft more than its distance from the wall.
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Question 446098: a person rowed her boat upstream a distance of 5 miles and then back to the starting point. The total time of the trip was 6 hours. If the rate of the current was 2 miles per hour, find the average speed of the boat in still water
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Question 446084: If train a is traveling at 55mph and a second train is traveling at 110mph, how many more miles would the first train travel in 3 hrs?
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Question 446063: two cars start from the same point and travel in opposite directions. One car goes 15 mph faster than the other. In the 3 hours the cares are 315 miles apart. What is the rate of the faster car?
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Question 446140: Two cars leave the same location at the same time and travel in the same direction along a road. The first car os traveling at a rate of 55 mph. The second car is traveling at a rate of 35 mph. How much time will pass before the cars are exactly 100 miles apart?
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Question 446157: Two contractors were working together to finish concrete. One can finish 25 square yards in 4 hours. The other can finish 25 square yards in 5 hours. How much concrete can they finish in 8 hours working together?

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Question 446153: A ship leaves Port Canaveral on May 6th @ 1200GMT bound for Gibraltar, a distance of 3822 miles. They expect to average 13.5 kts and give an estimated time of arrival ( ETA ) of May 18th at 0700 GMT. On the 13th their position at 0100 shows they have averaged 14.4 and have 1554 miles left to go, they are ahead of schedule. Due to limitations with the engines they can not slow to less than 10 knots. If they continue to average 14.4kts, When will they be able to slow to 10kts and still arrive at the original ETA of 0700 on the 18th?
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Question 446192: Please help
A car travels from one town to another at a speed of 42mph. If it had gone 6 mph faster, it could have made the trip in a half hour less time. How far apart are the towns?
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Question 446147: Two contractors were working together to finish concrete. One can finish 25 square yards in 4 hours. The other can finish 25 square yards in 5 hours. How much concrete can they finish in 8 hours working together?
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Question 446208: 9am a plane leaves Chicago heading west. at 11am a second plane leaves Chicago heading west and traveling 50 mph faster than the first plane. the second plane overtakes the first plane in 5 h. what is the rate of the first plane
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Question 446196: The collision impact of an automobile varies jointly as its mass and the square of it's speed. Suppose a 2000-lb car traveling at 55mph has a collision impact of 12.3. What is the collision impact of the same car at 65mph?
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Question 446267: Trains a and b are traveling in the same directions on parallel tracks. Train a is traveling at 80 miles per hour and train b is traveling at 90 miles per hour train a passes a station at 9:15 p.m. if train b passes the same station at 9:45 p.m. at what time will train b catch up to train a?
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Question 446306: Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40 miles per hour and Train B is traveling at 50 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 11:25AM. If Train B passes the same station at 11:37AM, at what time will Train B catch up to Train A?
When will Train B catch up with Train A?
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Question 446341: if one train leave the station traveling at 30 mph and another train leaves a half hour later traveling at 50 mph, when will they meet?
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Question 446360: Daria and her family for went for a drive in the country they traveled a distance of 50 miles in 2 hours what was their speed?
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Question 446304: A projectile is fired upward from a tower 300 feet high with an intial velocity of 320 feet per second. Its height above ground(h feet)is given at any time(t seconds) by the equation: h=-16t^2+320t+300. How many seconds will it take the projectile to reach its maximum height? What is that maximum height?
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Question 446364: Palmer's average running speed is 3 Kilometers per hour faster than his walking speed. If Palmer can run around a 20-Kilometer course in 2 hours, how many hourse would it take her Palmer to walk the same course?
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Question 446353: Daria and her family went for a drive in the country. they traveled a distance of 50 miles in 2 hours. what was their speed?
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Question 446117: An arrow is fired into the air with an initial velocity of 64 feet per second. The height in feet of the arrow after t seconds after it was shot into the air is given by the function h(x)=-16t(squared) +64t. Find the maximum height of the arrow.
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Question 446426: How many times greater is the mass of the Earth(5.9736 x 10^24 kg) than the mass of the Moon(7.347 x 10^22 kg)?
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Question 446497: Suppose a boat that can travel 20 mph in still water takes a 72 mile trip downriver and back. Due to a higher river flow, the current for the downriver trip was 2 mph faster than for the return trip. If the total travel time was 7 hours, how fast did the river flow for the downstream trip? How fast did the river flow for the return trip? In both cases the river flowed in the same direction.
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Question 446489: Two cyclists approaching each other at 20 km/h and 24 km/h respectively, are 198 km apart at 09h00. At what time will they meet, if they start riding towards each ohter simultaneously.
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