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Question 460306: if a plane can travel 500mph with the wind and 420 miles against the wind, find the speed of the plane still in the air
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Question 460385: If you fly a plane going north for 4 hours and make it 400 km, what was your velocity
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Question 460324: A car travels at 55.0 miles per hour and gets 10.0 kilometers per liter of gasoline. How many gallons of gasoline are needed for a 5.00 hour trip?
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Question 460338: Two trains leave stations 336 miles apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One train travels at 75 miles per hour while the other travels at 65 miles per hour. How long will it take for the two trains to meet?
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Question 460455: Two cars start from points 420 miles apart and travel toward each other. They meet after 3.5 hours. Find the average speed of each car if one travels 30 mph slower than the other.
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Question 460434: By himself, Tim can complete his paper route in 100 minutes. With the help of Sue it takes 80 minutes. How many minutes would it take Sue to do the route by herself?
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Question 460591: 1. If the distance to travel is 80 km, and a vehicle averages 40 km/hr, how long will the trip take?

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Question 460591: 1. If the distance to travel is 80 km, and a vehicle averages 40 km/hr, how long will the trip take?

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Question 460600: an airplane flew for 5 hr with a 20-km/h tailwind and returned in 7 hr against the same wind. find the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 460606: the sum of the digits of a two digit number is 12. if the digits are reversed, the resulting number exceeds twice the original number by 15. find the original number
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Question 460621: the rate of the jet stream is 300 miles per hour. traveling with the jet stream, an airplane can fly 2500 miles in the same amount of time as it takes to fly 1000 miles against the jet stream. What is the airplanes average rate in calm air?
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Question 460609: it takes kevin 3 hours more than john to paint a fence. together they painted for 3 hours, than kevin left and john finished the job in one additional hour. find how long it would take each boy to paint the fence alone?
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Question 460605: a chemist has one solution that is 20% salt and a second solution that is 45% salt. how many liters of each should be used in order to get 20 L of a solution that is 30% salt?
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Question 460642: A freight train travels at 30 mph. If the freight train is 300 miles ahead of an express train traveling at 55 mph, how long will the express train take to overtake the freight train?
If x represents the distance the train traveling 30 mph travels, then the train traveling 55 mph travels
answers
a)x miles
b)x+300 miles
c)x-300 miles
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Question 460607: tom mowed lawns a certain number of days to earn $300. if he had received $3 less per day, he would have had to work 5 days longer to earn the same amount. how many days did he work.
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Question 460773: two cars leave from same location and travel the opposite directions along a road. One car travels 30 mph while the other travels at 45 mph. How long will it take the two cars to be at 255 miles apart? thank you!
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Question 460813: a girl rides her bike up a hill at 10 miles per hour. She then rides her bike down the hill at 30 miles per hour. What is her average speed for the round trip?
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Question 460835: a cyclist's speed is 30km/hr.
how hany km will she go in 20 minutes
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Question 460776: Two trains in New York start at the same station going in the same direction on sets of parallel tracks. The local train stops often and
averages 18.4 miles per hour. The express train stops less frequently and averages 30.2 mph. In how many hrs. will the two trains be 5.9
miles apart?
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Question 460778: Bob Dansky and Sandy Spears are at opposite ends of a shopping mall 4780.4 feet apart walking towards each other. If Barb walks
1.5 feet per second and Sandy walks 2.2 feet per second, how long will it be before they meet?
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Question 460775: how do u find out how fast you have to go if you wanted to trave 1 mile in 3.5 minutes
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Question 460871: solve the equation by graphing x+y=7 y-x=7
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Question 460879: Planw A is traveling at 300 mph ... Plane B at 400 mph. The current time is 1301 and they are 61 miles apart. What time will the two aircraft meet?
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Question 460875: A boat can go 20 miles against a current in the same time it can go 60 miles with the current. The speed of the current is 4 mph. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 460870: a boat rows 10.5 mi downstream with the current at 1.5 hrs. the return trip upstream against the current covered the same distance but took 3.5 hrs. Find the crew rowing rate in still water and the rate of the current
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Question 460814: a massive tsunami hit Hawaii in 1946 and killed 200 people. it traveled 3200km in 5 hours. how fast did it travel (in km/h)
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Question 460780: To get to the top of Whistler Mountain, people must use two different ski lifts. The first lift travels 4 mph for 0.2 hr. The send lift travels for 0.3 hrs. to reach the top of the mountain. If the total distance traveled up the mountain is 1.2 miles, find the average speed of the second ski lift.
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Question 460777: In the Outback in Australia. Betty Sue Adams and Carl Minieri go camel riding in the same direction along the same path.
Betty Sue�s camel travels at 6mph while Carls travels at a slower pace. After 3 hrs. they are 2.4 mile apart. Find the speed of Carl�s camel.
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Question 460604: mike drove 135 miles. if he went 10mph faster he could have gone an additional 85mph in the one additional hour. find his original speed
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Question 460897: If it takes you 2 hours and 7 minutes to travel 25.6 miles how fast are you going
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Question 460588: You are traveling 6 mi. east and 8 mi. north to Franklin Lane. The speed limit is 40 mph. How many minutes will it take to get there in a 14 mi stretch ?
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Question 460263: If a car is driving 64 mph, how fast must another car drive from a dead stop to catch the other car in 1.6 miles.
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Question 460239: a car travels at 52 mph and gets 11 kilometres per liter of gasoline. how many gallons of gasoline are needed for a 4.5 hour trip
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Question 460939: Two people are jogging around a circular track in the same direction. One person can run comepletely around the track in 15 minutes. The second person takes 18 minutes. If they both start running in the same place at the same time, how long will it take them to be together at this place if they continue to run?
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Question 460976: With a tailwind, a helicopter flies 300 miles in 1.5 hours. when the helicopter flies back against in the same wind, the trip takes 3 hours. What is the helicopters speed? What is the winds speed?
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Question 460898: A car travels at 15m/ sec. What will be the speed of the car in km/h
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Question 460734: A block is placed on an inclined plane. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s^2. A 26 N force is required to push the block up the incline with constant velocity. What is the height of the block? Answer in units of N.
Mu=0.19
Angle= 21 degrees
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Question 461268: It takes Mary 2 minutes to run a track. John can run 1 mi/hr faster than Mary and it takes him 1 minute 30 seconds to run the same track. How long is the track?
I understand that I need to somehow encompass the formula: D= rt
Usually once I get the first few steps completed, the rest is downhill. However, I wasn't sure how to begin the problem. Thank you very much
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Question 461397: a truck enters a highway driving 60 mph. a car enters the highway at the same place 7 minutes later and drives 65 mph in the same direction. from the time the car enters the highway, how long will it take the car to pass the truck?
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Question 461420: A train travels at a rate of (4x+5) miles per hour. How many miles can it travel at that rate in (x−1) hours?
(4x+5) + (x-1)
I tried using the FOIL method
4x^2-4x+5x-4

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Question 461498: Please help!!
Two motorcyclists start at the same point and travel in opposite directions.One travels 3 MPH faster than the other.In 4 hours they are 164 miles apart. Find Both the speed that the slower motorcyclists and the faster motorcyclist is traveling.
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Question 461535: i want to average 55mphfor the entire 1375 mi. i cover the first 220 mi in 2 hrs and 30 min.I then stop for a 20 min. break. during the next hr i travel only 40 mi due to road construction. I then stop for 40 min. for dinner. how fast must i average for the rest of the trip if i want to meet my goal of averaging 55mph
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