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Question 478293: IF A CAR IS TRAVELING 21 MPH, HOW MANY MILES CAN IT TRAVEL WITH 4 3/4 GALLONS.
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Question 478291: how long will it take to sail to Vietnam from Cameroon
and how many hours does a cargo ship sail per kilo meter
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Question 478321: If a driver drove 24 miles at 60 miles per hour, how much fuel would he use?

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Question 478320: how long will it take me to get to work on my moped traveling 30 miles per hour and the distance is 12 miles?
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Question 478317: how long will it take me to get to work on my moped going 30 miles per hour and i have to travel nine miles?
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Question 478315: This is a question off of my upcoming Flight Aptitude test:
It will take 4 hours, 32 minutes, and 30 seconds to dig one part of a mortar pit. If the other part takes exactly 3/4 of the time it takes to dig the first part, how long will it take to dig the second part of the mortar pit?
A) 2 Hours, 24 Minutes, 22.5 Seconds
B) 3 Hours, 46 Minutes, 36 Seconds
C) 3 Hours, 24 Minutes, 22.5 Seconds
D) 1 Hours, 56 Minutes, 39 Seconds
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My work:
I think (A) is wrong because simplifying things down to just "hours", that's closer to 1/2 the time.
I think (D) is wrong because that is even less than (A), which is close to 1/2. So it is obviously not close to 3/4.
I do not know how to decide between B or C because of the seconds and minutes. Both hours are "3" which is close by approximation to 3/4 of the 4 hour, 32 minute, and 30 second time, which is how I ruled out (A) or (D).
I know I can take the minutes and convert that into an improper fraction with the hours. That gives me something like (Please forgive this long paragraph, not meaning to waste your time but I am also trying to figure this out as I type it)
Solving this:
Original Time: 4 hours, 32 minutes, 30 seconds.
Make this an improper fraction:
4 wholes, 32 parts. 32/60 = 8/15
4x15=60. So, our original time equals 68/15ths.
Multiply that by 3/4.
68x3=214. 15x4=60.
214/60 = 107/30.
This equals 3 wholes (which is 107 - 90, leaves me with 17/30, which converting back to minutes is 34 minutes (by multiplying by 2)).
So, 3 hours and 34 minutes. I need to incorporate those seconds to get an accurate answer but I don't know how.
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I know this is way more involved than your average question you get on here but I would tremendously appreciate the help. Thank you very much! P.S. I know for a fact there is a simpler way to go about solving these, maybe a formula or logical pathway to a "10 second answer" because this took me over half an hour to type and I would have 60 seconds on my test. Again, thank you very much!

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Question 478377: Ben and David both cycled a distance of 24km. They started at the same time. David completed it earlier than Ben 20 minutes. If davids average speed was 9km/h find bens average speed.
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Question 478418: If two planes leave the same airport at l p.m. One flies West at 180 mph & one flies North at 210 mph. How far apart will they be at 3 p.m.?
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Question 478422: during the first part of a trip a canoeist travels 68 miles at a certain speed. The canoeist travels 3 miles on the second part of the trip at a speed of 5 mph slower the total time for the trip is 3 hours what was the speed on each part of the trip
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Question 478424: Driving 35mph, one covers 17 miles in how my seconds
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Question 478379: Maria and Jody start to travel in the same direction from the same pont. Maria drives 30 mph faster than Jody. How long will it take Maria to have 45 miles in between them?
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Question 478450: If a train travels 40 miles per hour from one city to another, it reaches 10 minutes late and if it travels 30 miles per hour then it reaches 16 minutes late. What is distance between two cities.
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Question 478605: Jake is traveling 14 mph in his boat. After 5 hours, how far will he have traveled?
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Question 478614: if two cars leave at the same time traveling in opposite directions .one at a speed of 80km/hand the other 96km/h.in how manny hours will tghey be 528 km apart?
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Question 478622: 1. A plane travels from Orlando to Denver and back again. On the five-hour trip from Orlando to Denver, the plane has a tailwind of 40 miles per hour. On the return trip from Denver to Orlando, the plane faces a headwind of 40 miles per hour. This trip takes six hours. What is the speed of the airplane in still air?
Show full equation please, I'd like to fully understand it.
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Question 478635: A uhual truck has a 40 gallon tank and 10mpg how much gas is needed for going 700 miles
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Question 478642: how long does it take to get 1 kilometer driving at 65 miles per hour?
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Question 478686: the distance s traveled by a car in the time t at 6o kph.
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Question 478712: If I'm driving 80mph and my destination is 300 miles away , how long will it take me?
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Question 478793: pls. help me solve this prob. tnx.
prob.1. A car and a lorry set off on a 390-km journey at the same time. The lorry traveled at a speed of 60km/hr. The car reached the destination 1 and 1/2 hour earlier than the lorry. find the speed of the car.

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Question 478791: pls. help me solve this prob. tnx.
prob.1. Mary and Nancy set off on a 220- km jeepney. Nancy started the journey 15minutes earlier than mary. They reached the destination at the same time. If Nancy's speed was 80km/hr, find the Mary's speed.

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Question 478789: pls. help me solve this prob. tnx.
prob.1. john and liza set off from town A to town B, which was 240 km away. John set off 1 hour than Liza and reached town B at the same time as Liza. If Liuza's speed was 60km/hr, what was John's speed?

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Question 478740: A car used 7 gallons of gasoline to go a distance of 210 miles. At that rate, how much gasoline would the car use to go 495 miles?
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Question 478740: A car used 7 gallons of gasoline to go a distance of 210 miles. At that rate, how much gasoline would the car use to go 495 miles?
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Question 478888: If I am going to a place 60 miles away and I am driving 40 miles per hour, how long will it take to get there ?

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Question 478963: if two sides of a square field were increased by 5 feet the area of the field increase by 245ft squared. find the area of the original square.

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Question 478920: if the lake is 60 miles away and im driving 40mph how long would it take me to get there

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Question 479044: How many kilometres is Goose bay New Zealand away from Christchurch?
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Question 479080: the 888 mile trip to the mountains took three times as long as the 280 mile trip to the ocean. if the speed to the ocean was 4 mph less than the speed to the mountains, find both speeds and both times
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Question 479147: Please help me solve this equation: What is the average speed of a car that travels 360 klms in 4 hours.
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Question 479225: the average speed of a train is 465 km per hour. how far will it go in 17.5 hours
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Question 479222: if someone travled for 1 hour 10 minutes going 30 kilometers per hour howm many kilometers didi they go
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Question 479221: two cars leave a gas station at the same time traveling in opposite diretions. one car travels at 80km/hr and the other at 96km/hr. in how many hours will they be 528km apart
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Question 479309: One of the two people at a certain distance of 15 km per hour, and the other travels at the speed of 16 kilometers. The two had more than 16 minutes before someone other than a person who reached that total, how far?
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Question 479312: how long would it take to drive to seattle washington from mooresville north carolina with a car that get 18mpg going 70mph

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Question 479300: Could you help me solve this problem please?
Two limos leave south bend at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One limo averages 65 mi/h and the other limo averages 55 mi/h. After how many hours will the limos be 720 mi apart.
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Question 479354: a plane flies in a straight line to a city that is 100 kilometers east and 150 kilometers north of the point of departure. how far does it fly?
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Question 479227: Elaine jogs and walks to office every day. she averages 4km/hr walking and 8 km/hr jogging. the distance from her house to the office is 6km and she makes a trip in 1 hr. how far does she jog in a trip.
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Question 479437: What is the distance traveled at a speed of 60 km per hour, for 2 hours
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Question 479452: a car travels 250 kilometers in the same time that a truck travels 225 kilometers. if the speed of the car is 8 kilometers per hour faster than the speed of the truck, find both speeds
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Question 479473: Car travels 400 km in the first 3 hours of a trip. it stops for 2 hours and then travels final 250km in 1.5 hours. find the average speed of the car
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Question 479513: connie walks from her home to the bicycle repair shop at 6km/h and then bikes home at 20 km/h. If the total traveling time is 39 minutes, how far is it from her home to the repair shop?
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Question 479539: A ball is thrown vertically upwars of 15 feet per second from a bridge that is 55 feet above the level of the water. The height h, in feet, of the ball above the water at time t in seconds after it is thrown is h = 12t^2 + 20t - 48
Find the time when the ball strikes the water.
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Question 479482: A car travels 250 kilometrs in the same time that a truck travels 225 kilometers. If the speed of the car is 8 kilometers per hour faster than the speed of the truck, find both speeds.
What is the equation?
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