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Question 484518: A plane leaves chicago and flies 750 miles to new york. if it takes 2.5 hours to get back to new york flying against the wind, but only 2 hours to fly back to chicago, what is the planes rate of speed and what is the wind speed?
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Question 484592: you pull out the driveway at your house on your way to class driving 30mph. 30 minutes later someone from home saw that you left your homework and started driving towards your direction at 60 pmh. How long will it take for the person's car to be next to yours? How far did you drive before the person caught up with you?
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Question 484677: how fast in mph is a car going if it travels 1 mile in 72 seconds
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Question 484744: Two planes which are 2160 miles apart fly toward each other. Their speeds differ by 70 mph. If they pass each other in 3 hours, what is the speed of each?
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Question 484694: How many L of a 45% sugar solution must be mixed with a 4 L of pure water to make a 27% solution?
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Question 484757: how long does it take to drive 200 miles (320km) at 10mph?
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Question 484768: how fast in km/h would i need to run to cover 2.4 km in 11 minutes?
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Question 484810: Daddy Lanz and his daughter shin leave home at the same time in separate automobiles. Daddy Lanz drives to his office, a distance of 24 km, and shin drives to school, a distance of 28 km. They arrive at their destinations at the same time. What are their Average rates, if daddy lanz's average rate is 12km/hr less than shin's?
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Question 484796: If a train can travel 480 miles per hour with the wind at 420 miles per hour against the wind, find the speed of the plane without wind and the speed of the wind.
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Question 484858: the lead car in a race is .5 miles ahead of the second ar and is traveling 2 mies per hour faster after x mohours will the lead car is d(x) miles in front of the second car where d(x) =
a.)(2x) - 5
b.) 2x + 5
c.)(2x).5
d.) 2x + .5
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Question 484718: in a bike race, Steve gives Jim a 500m head start. Also, steve agrees to start 15 min after jim. If steve travels at 17 km/hr and Jin at 14km/hr how long will it take steve after he starts to overtake Jim?
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Question 484761: Man jogs 10 km/hr. to stadium. He drives back at 60 km/hr. and saves one hour. How far was the stadium.
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Question 484939: How long would it take a car to travel a distance of 75 km at a speed if 25km/h?
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Question 484875: How much distance (in feet) does a vehicle travel per second at 85 miles per hour?
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Question 484991: 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 484993: A boat can travel 5 miles upstream and 5 miles downstream in a total of 6 hours. If the speed of the current is 2 miles per hour, what is the speed of the boat in still water?

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Question 484996: if you have to travel 136 miles at 55 miles per hour,how long does it take you to get there?
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Question 485107: a long distance runner has an average speed of 5 m/s during a race. how far does the runner travel in 25 minutes? express the answer in m, km, and miles.
and lastly,
A rock is dropped off the side of a bridge and hits the water below at 2.5 s later. what is the rocks velocity when it hits the water, the average velocity as it fell and the height of the bridge above the water.
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Question 484614: The algebraic expression x/5 can be used to calculate the distance in miles that you are from a flash of lightning, where x is the number of seconds between the time you see a flash of lightning and the time you hear the thunder. Calculate the distance that you are from the flash of lightning if you hear the thunder 2 seconds after you see the lightning.

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Question 485221: horatio placea rubber duck in the current of the rio grande river. the rubber duck floats 12 miles downstream in 2 2/5 hours. at this rate about how many miles will the duck travel in 5 hours
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Question 485231: if u traveled 392 miles in 7 hours. then how many hours is 728 miles at the same rate
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Question 485251: There are 27,172 students at Carolina and there are 1,868 more females than males. How many men and women are enrolled at Carolina?
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Question 485253: Danny Cohen bought some bags of fruit for the mathematics club picnic. He spent $6.40 and bought twice as many bags of apples as bags of oranges. If apples cost $.90 a bag and oranges cost $1.40 a bag, how many bags of each did he buy?
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Question 485289: B is 50% faster than A. If A starts at 9 A.M. and B starts at 10 A.M. A travels at a speed of 50 km/hr. If A and B are 300 kms apart, The time when they meet when they travel in opposite direction is ?
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Question 485286: if you are driving at a constant speed of 68 miles per hour, how long will it take you to travel 170 miles?
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Question 485315: you visit your grandmother who live in a town 60 km,by a bus it takes you only 30min.what is the total average speed?

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Question 485340: Two cars travel at the same distance. The first car travels at 40mph and reaches its destination in (t) hours. The second car travels at a rate of 55 mph and reaches its destination 3 hours earlier than the first car. How long does it take for car one to reach its destination?

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Question 485283: how long will it take a car to go somewhere where its 5 miles and the car speed is 68 mph
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Question 485344: 2 cars start from the same point, but are traveling in opposite directions. Car A has 2 passengers and is traveling at 35 miles per hour and car B has 4 passengers and is traveling at 65 miles per hour. How many hours will it take for them to be exactly 500 miles apart?
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Question 485346: 2 cars start from the same point, but are traveling in opposite directions. Car A has 2 passengers and is traveling at 35 miles per hour and car B has 4 passengers and is traveling at 65 miles per hour. How many hours will it take for them to be exactly 500 miles apart?
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Question 485336: 2 cars start from the same point, but are traveling in opposite directions. Car A has 2 passengers and is traveling at 35 miles per hour and car B has 4 passengers and is traveling at 65 miles per hour. How many hours will it take for them to be exactly 500 miles apart?
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Question 485335: 2 cars start from the same point, but are traveling in opposite directions. Car A has 2 passengers and is traveling at 35 miles per hour and car B has 4 passengers and is traveling at 65 miles per hour. How many hours will it take for them to be exactly 500 miles apart?
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Question 485374: If Joe drives 20 miles to work each day and the drive takes 23 minutes, what is the speed Joe is traveling?
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Question 485389: 2 cars start from the same point, but are traveling in opposite directions. car a has 2 passengers and is traveling at 35 miles per hour. car b has 4 passengers and is traveling 65 miles per hour.how many hours will it take for them to be exactly 500 miles apart?
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Question 485424: A car travels 80 mph and travels 75 miles. How long will it take to reach the destination
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Question 484681: two planes leave an airport at noon. one flew east at a certain speed and the other flew west at twice the speed . The planes were 2700 miles apart in 3 hours. How fast was each plane going
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Question 484676: George traveled at 45 miles and hour. Write an expression for the number of miles George travels in hours
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Question 484666: it takes brian 12 mintues to drive 3 miles to the store, what was his average speed in miles per minute?
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Question 485368: a man drives regularly from his office to his home when he drives 36 kph he arrives home 3 minutes late than usual. When he drives 45 kph he arrives 3 minutes earlier than usual. Find his usual and the distance from his office to his home?
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Question 485466: two cars starting from the same point, opposite directions, one is going 65 mph, one is going 35 mph, how many hours until they are exactly 500 miles apart?
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Question 485593: Two cars start from the same point, but are traveling in opposite directions. Car A has 2 passengers and is traveling at 35 miles per hour and car B has 4 passengers and is traveling at 65 miles per hour. How many hours will it take for them to be exactly 500 miles apart?
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Question 484006: Suppose you ride your bicycle 1 mile west, then 6 miles north, and then 4 miles southwest. What is the total distance (in miles) between your initial point and your final point?
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Question 483570: A train travels 70 miles when a bus travels 50 miles. How many miles will the train
travel when the bus travels 60 miles?
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