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Question 482503: If you could walk a mile in 30 minutes, how long would it take you to walk 2 kilometers?
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Question 482696: On Jerry's way to work in the morning, he was only able to travel at a rate of 20 mph because of traffic. On his drive home, he averaged 40mph. If his total time was 1 1/2 hours, how long did it take him to drive to work?
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Question 482641: If you are going 50 kilometers per hour, how many meters per second are you traveling?
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Question 482719: Jim has travelled 5/6 of his total trip. He has travelled 520 miles so far. How many more miles does he have to travel?
A. 624 miles
B.86 2/3 miles
C. None of these
D. 104 miles

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Question 482693: Sam rows at a speed of 6.5 miles per hour in still water. If Sam rows 9 miles up-stream and then back again in a total of 3.25 hours, what is the speed of the current, in miles per hour?
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Question 482691: a plane averaged 500 miles per hour on a 4 hour flight. For the first three hours, the plane flew at 480 miles per hour. What was the speed of the plane, in miles per hour, during the last hour?
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Question 482657: A freight train starts a trip from LA at 12 (noon). At 2 pm a passenager train starts over the same route at the speed of 30 mph faster than the freight train. If the passenger train takes over the freight train at 5 pm, find the average speed of each of the two trains.
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Question 482646: If a horse runs 1 1/2 miles in 2 minutes and 24 seconds how fast is he running in MPH?
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Question 482645: Your car's gas tank holds 70 liters and is one quarter full. Your car gets 7.4 kilometers/liter. You see a sign saying, "Next gas 117 kilometers." Do you have enough gas?
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Question 482604: A diesel train traveled to Johannesburg and back. It took one hour longer to go there then it took to come back. The average speed on the trip there was 27 km/h. The average speed on the way back was 36km/h. How many hours did the trip there take.
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Question 482603: Ted left the white house and traveled west at an average speed of 45km/h. Huong left one hour later and traveled in the same direction but with an average speed of 56 km/h. How long did Ted travel before Huong caught up.
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Question 482853: In a bicycle race, Lionel gives Robert a 500 m advantage. Also, Lionel agrees to start 15 min after Robert. If Lionel bikes at 17 km/h and Robert at 14 km/h, how long will it take Lionel after he starts biking to overtake Robert?
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Question 482801: what is the equation to solving this kind of problem?
At 1:00 PM Lucia left her home and began walking at 6 km/hr toward Kiley�s house. Fifteen minutes later, Kiley left her home and walked at 9 km/hr toward Lucia�s house. If Lucia lives 5 km from Kiley, at what time did they meet? Who walked farther?
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Question 482746: A boat travels 30 miles in 2 hours. How can you find the average speed of the boat in miles per hour? (explain in words)
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Question 482601: A boat, whose speed in still water is 8Km per hour travels 12Km upstream and then 16Km downstream in 8 hours (so that the boat finishes 4Km further downstream from where it started). What is the speed of the current?
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Question 482512: You are driving your car in a straight line at 15 m/s for 10 kilometers, then at 25 m/s for another 10 kilometers, is your average speed more than, less than, or equal to 20 m/s? Why?
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Question 482881: if a man runs 2 miles in a half hour, how fast did he run?
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Question 482884: if a car travels 210 km in 3 hours, how fast is it going
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Question 482917: The elevator in the washington monument takes 60 seconds to rise 500ft. What is the average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 482943: Two cars leave Omaha at the same time. One travels east at 55 mph and the other travels west at 65 mph. When are the cars 500 miles apart?
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Question 482886: if a car travels 210 km in 3 hours, how fast is it going
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Question 483020: Jennifer's home is exactly ten miles from her place of work. Her average speed on her typical morning commute is 60 miles per hour.
A. What is her average time that it takes her to get to work?
B. If Jennifer wants to get to work in 1/2 of the time, how fast should she drive? What about 1/4 of the time?
Comments: I have tried so much to solve this but it is so hard. I came up with a formul: distance/time=rate. I got 10 minutes for A but I know it's wrong.
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Question 482495: terri works due north of home. her husband denny works due east . they leave for work at the same time. by the time terri is 5 mi from home, the distance between them is 1 mi more than denny's distance from home. how far from home is denny ?
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Question 482982: A car is traveling at a rate of miles per hour. What is the car's rate in feet per second? How many feet will the car travel in seconds? In your computations, use the fact that mile is equal to feet
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Question 483044: the travel time for a plane that is traveling at a rate of x miles per hour for 200 miles
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Question 483043: the travel time for a plane that is traveling at a rat of x miles per hour for 200 miles

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Question 483113: two trains left a station at the same time. one traveled north at a certain speed and the other traveled south at twice the speed. after 4 hours, the trains were 600 miles apart. how fast was each bus going?
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Question 483125: An airplane flies from City A in a straight line to City B, which is 60 kilometers north and 170 kilometers west of City A. How far does the plane fly?
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Question 483127: Hello! Can you please solve this problem because I'm really having a hard time understanding this problem, pls.....I really need this.
This is all about distance/rate problem.
1. Two different routes between two towns differ by 24 kilometers. One motorist traveled the longer route at 65km/hr and another traveled the shorter route at 52 km/hr. If they made the trip between two towns in exactly the same time, what is the length of each route?
P.S.
I've tried answering it and I came up with route A = 120.25 ; route B 96.2
but I don't know if this is correct.
>>Thank You<<
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Question 483134: a cruise ship left the dock and traveled towards california an average speed of 10mph. A container ship left 12 hours later ans traveled in the opposite direction with an average speed of 5mph. How many more minutes does the container ship need to travel before the ships are 135 miles apart
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Question 483138: Lea left the airport traveling toward the capital four hours before Danielle. Danielle traveled in the opposite direction going 25km/h slower than Lea for one hour after which they were 275 km apart. Find Lea's speed in mph.
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Question 483140: Two planes are 1380 miles apart and traveling toward each other. One plane is traveling 80 mph faster than the other plane. The planes meet in 1.5 hours. Find the speed of each plane. Please show work.
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Question 483176: My brother and I go to the same school. My brother takes 8 minutes to walk to school, and I take 7 minutes. If he gets a 30-second head start one day, can I catch him before he gets to school? Explain without referring to any short-cut in your explanation
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Question 483190: Hello! Can anyone pls. answer this problem, it's all about distance/rate problem.
I don't know how to start solving this problem. Pls. help me solve this.
Problem:
An automobile traveling at a certain rate can go from one province to another in 9 hours. If the rate were 12 kilometers per hour faster, the trip would require two hour less. What is the distance between provinces?
Pls. do answer this problem.
>>Thank You<<
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Question 483206: a fishing boat left dock 24 and traveled south at an average speed of 18 mph. A cruise ship left some time later traveling in the same direction at an average speed of 30 mph. After traveling for 6 hours the cruise ship caught up with the fishing boat. How long did the fishing boat travel before the cruise ship caught up?

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Question 483258: can anyone kindly answer this pls.
the problem is:
Ryan drove his car from A to B at 81km/hr. his car broke down and he returned by bus at 54 km/hr. his total travelling time was 5 hours. How long was his trip by car?
I've tried answering it but it always come up with a wrong answer.
pls. help me solve this problem.
My equation was: 81t + 52t = 5
t = 5/133
And I don't know what to do after that.
Pls. do answer this.
>>Thank You<<
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Question 483298: Two trains leave from the same point at the same time, traveling in opposite directions. One travels 13 mph faster than the other. After 4 hours, they are 484 mi apart. Find the rate of each train.
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Question 483330: Jerry's boat has a gas tank that holds 256 gallons of gas. If Jerry uses 8 gallons of gas every day, how many days will 1 tank of gas last?

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Question 483325: Two cars left the same intersection at the same time, one heading due east and the other heading due south. Some time later, they were exactly 75 miles apart. The car headed east had gone 15 miles farther then the car headed south. How far had each car traveled?
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Question 483368: Each straight stretch of a 400-meter running track is 110 m long. Each curved part is 90 m long. Find the distance between the inside curbs of the two straight streches.
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Question 483346: a particular hybrid car travels approximately 205 miles on 5 gallons gas. find the amount of gas required for a 574 mi trip
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Question 483406: What travelling speed is required to reach 46 miles per hour within a distance of 4/10s of a mile?
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