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Question 469510: Two cars start from the same point and travel on a straight course for 2 hours in opposite directions. They are 208 miles apart from eachother. If one car traveled, on average 8mph faster than the other car, what was the average speed of each car for the 2-hour trip? (steps please)
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Question 469608: Baolia rode 12 mph for part of her 33 mile bike trip, but then she walked the rest because of her flat tire. The whole trip took her 3 and a half hours. If she walked at an average speed of 3 mph how many hours did she have to walk?
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Question 469616: A car travels 550 mi. A second car, traveling 5 mph faster than the first car, makes the same trip in 1 h less time. Find the speed of each car.
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Question 469621: A boats crew rowed 10.5 miles downstream, with the current, 1.5 hours. The return trip upstream, against the current, covered the same distance but took 3.5 hours. Find the crews rowing rate in still water and the rate of the current.
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Question 469609: Kam traveled 240 miles east of St. Louis. For most of the trip he averaged 70mph, but for one period of time he slowed to 20 mph due to heavy traffic. If the total time of travel was 7 hours, how many miles did he travel at the reduced speed?
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Question 469663: A train starts its 221 mile trip at 7:30 A.M. If the train travels at an average speed of 34 miles per hour and stops exactly four minutes at each of ten stations, at what time in the afternoon will it arrive at its final destination?
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Question 469695: If it takes a car two minutes to drive 0.9 miles, then How long would it take for a person to walk the same distance?
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Question 469808: a motorcycle traveling at 50 miles per hour overtakes a car going 40 miles per hour who had a three hour head start. how far from the starting point are the two vehicles ?
i just need to know formula
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Question 469847: How much would it cost to go 180 miles by boat if you have a 225 gallon capacity fuel tank @ 3.55 per gallon for gas and the boat goes 30 miles per hour. It has two Mercruiser 7.4L motors. The boat is a 1995 Sea Ray 33 330 Sundancer. Thank you
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Question 469860: 40 mils per hour to 60 miles is how many minutes

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Question 469932: i ride 2 hours on a bike. i ride out at 18 mph and ride back at 25 mph
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Question 469962: A cattle train left Abuja traveling west six hours before a diesel train. The diesel train traveled in the opposite direction going 33 mph slower then the cattle train for 12 hours after which time the trains were 1284 mi. apart. What was teh cattle trains speed?
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Question 469968: A truck travels at a constant speed of 30.0m/s for 350 seconds. Find the total distance traveled in km
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Question 469978: A toy car rolls down a ramp covering 24 meters in 6 seconds. What is its average speed?
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Question 469987: how many minutes will it take a rocket to travel 4000 miles if its average rate is 100 miles every t second, in terms of t?
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Question 470097: A CAR TRAVLED AT 65 MILES PER HOUR FOR A TOTAL OF 390 MILES. HOW MANY HOURS DID THE CAR TRAVEL?
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Question 470111: five freinds drove 60 miles per hour to California. on the way home they took the same route but drove 75 miles per hour. how many mile did they drive to California if the round trip took 10 hrs.
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Question 470166: ken makes a 4-mile motorboat trip downstream in 20 minutes ( 1/3 hr). The return trip takes 30 minutes (1/2 hr). Find the rate of the boat in still water and the rate of the current
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Question 470271: A boy traveling by a canoe can go downstream 6 miles per hour and upstream 2 miles per hour. How fast can he go in still water, and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 470303: if i go 7 miles at 15 miles an hour how long would take
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Question 470303: if i go 7 miles at 15 miles an hour how long would take
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Question 470367: a car took 6 hours to complete a 480 km trip what is the average speed
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Question 470369: A train travels at 40 mph for the first part of a 975 mile trip. After a while, it increases its speed to 45 mph. The trip took 30 hours in total. For how many hours did the train travel at 45 mph?
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Question 470411: One kind of bug can eat a leaf in 7 minutes. Another kind can eat the same leaf in 22 minutes. How long will it take if the bugs both eat the same leaf at the same time?

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Question 470452: if peter received grades of 88, 83, 75,and 80 on four tests in English, what is the minimum grade he has to score on the fifth test to have an average of at least 85 for the course?
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Question 470595: dave could drive 300 miles in twice the time in took john to drive 240 miles. The speed of john was 30 mph greater than that of dave. What were the speeds and times of both?
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Question 470664: word problem:A car traveled 126 miles in the same amount of time that a van traveled 99 miles.If the car went 15 miles per hour faster than the van, how fast did each vehicle travel?
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Question 470684: A carpenter is building a rectangular room with a fixed perimeter of 76 ft. What dimensions would yield the maximum area? What is the maximum area?
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Question 470628: The airplane could fly 2080 miles in 5 more hours than it took the sports car to drive 195 miles. The speed of the airplane was 4 times the speed of the sports car. Find the speeds and times of both
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Question 470705: light travels at 3.0 x 10 to the 8th power meters/second. A light year is the distance light travels in one year. given that there are 3.15 x 10 to the 7th power seconds in one year,how many meters are in a light year.
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Question 470429: A horse can run 1 1/4 miles in the same time as a man can run 1/2 mile. If the horse and the man both start from the same place on a circular track of length 1 1/2 miles, what is the least number of circuits the horse must run before both horse and man arrive simultaneously back at the starting point?
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Question 174073: Doctor White leaves home to drive to a convention. She is traveling at 55miles/hour. She is 10 miles from home when her husband realizes that she has forgotten her briefcase. How fast will he have to drive to catch her in two hours?
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Question 368216: wilson is 20 miles from your house and you can drive 20 miles per hour. How long would it take you to get to school?

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Question 470916: Phil is taking a 40-kilometer canoe trip. If he travels at 30 kilometers per hour for the first 10 kilometers and then at 15 kilometers per hour for the rest of the trip, how many minutes longer will it take him than if he makes the entire trip at 20 kilometers per hour?
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Question 470983: if i want a lake to be .5 miles long by 1 mile wide how many acres of land would i need
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Question 471030: Jose drove miles 715 in 11 hours.
At the same rate, how long would it take him to drive 325 miles?
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Question 471084: Write the answer to the problem as an algebraic expression.
A water tank holds g gallons. Since there are 4 quarts per gallon, how many quarts does the tank hold?

A) 4/g
B) 4g
C) g + 4
D) g/4
Please provide step by step information. Thanks in advance.
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Question 471104: How many metres would it take for car A (travelling at a constant 100km/hr) to end up 52.78m in front of car B (travelling at a constant 95km/hr) if car B had a headstart of 55.56m?
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Question 471166: A cyclist can go 6 miles with the wind blowing at her back in 3 hours. on the return tri, after 4 hours, the cyclist has 4 miles remaining to return to the starting point. Find the speed of the cyclist and the speed of the wind
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Question 471239: In 5 minutes, a conveyor belt moves 900 pounds of recyclable aluminum from the delivery truck to a storage area. A smaller belt moves the same quantity of cans the same distance in 7 minutes. If both belts are used, find how long it takes to move the cans to the storage area.
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Question 471293: three travelers meet whenever they are all in los angeles at the same time. One traveler visits every 24 days, the second visits every 36 days. and the third visits every 54 days. if they meet today, how many days will pass before they meet again?
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Question 471301: The combined area of CA and NY is 204,192. The area of CA is 108,530 sq miles more than that of NY. Find the land area of each state?
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