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Question 483336: the speed of a passenger train is 20 mph faster than the speed of a freight train. the passenger train travels 300 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 200 miles. Find the speed of each train.
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Question 485628: janice walked five and a half km in one and a quarter hours. what was her speed
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Question 485628: janice walked five and a half km in one and a quarter hours. what was her speed
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Question 485682: if a car maintains 75 miles per hour, how long does
it take to travel 30 miles?
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Question 485762: what is the aveage speed of an earthworm?

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Question 485629: it took 20 min to go up stream. 15 to come back. the speed off the current is 5 mph.What is the speed of the boat?

The speed of the boat is 35 MPH. how to you get to that answer?
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Question 485772: Highway speed is 60 kilometers per hour and a local speed is 32 kilometers per hour. They are the same distance. How am i supposed to figure this out without being given the time and distance?
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Question 485791: A rocket sled travels 3 miles in 6 seconds. What is the average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 485889: a car travels 135 miles on 6 galon of gasoline how far can it travel on 10 gallon of gasoline
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Question 485931: A boat travels upstream for 3 hours. The return trip requires 2 hours. If the speed of the current is 2 km per hour, find the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 485932: A certain plan flying with the wind travels 540 km in 2 hours. Later, flying against the same wind, the plane travels 690 km in 3 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 485900: how fast would speed have to travel to cover half the earth in 14.7 hours
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Question 485967: what is the speed of a truck that travels 10. km in 10. minutes
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Question 486040: What speed is a car traveling if it goes 240 miles in 4 hours?
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Question 485927: Davin and Iris decided to run at a heart-shaped track with a perimeter of 1600 meters. They start at the same point and run in opposite directions. If the ratio of Davin's speed to Iris's speed is 3:2 and they meet again after 8 minutes, how fast is Davin in meters per minute?
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Question 486066: driving at 58mph,how many it will take to drive 32 miles?
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Question 486072: You drive out the parking lot at school onto A street at 25mph on the way home. You have to turn around and go back to get something. You then drive back at 50mph. If the whole trip takes 1 hour, how far away were you when you turned around?
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Question 486073: 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 train traveling?
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Question 486088: At noon a cargo plane leaves McHare Airport and heads east at 180mph. Its destination is jamesville, 500 miles away. At 1:00pm a jet takes off from McHare and flies east after the cargo plane at 450 mph. At what time will the jet overtake the cargo plane?
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Question 486052: A boardwalk is parallel to and 210 ft inland from a straight shoreline. A sandy beach lies between the boardwalk and the shoreline. A man is standing on the boardwalk, exactly 750 ft across the sand from his beach umbrella, which is right at the shoreline. The man walks 4ft/s on the boardwalk and 2 ft/s on the sand. How far should he walk on the boardwalk before veering off onto the sand if he wishes to reach his umbrella in exactly 4 min 45 s?
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Question 486214: Some bank robbers leave town, speeding at 71 mph. Twelve minutes later, the police give chase, traveling at 80 mph. How long will it take after the robbery for the police to overtake the robbers? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
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Question 486393: Need help for the following sum:
A starts walking north from Point X at 7 a.m. with a speed of 5 km/hr. After 1 hr, B starts from the same point cycling towards the east with a speed of 16 km/hr. At what time will they be at a distance of 52 km from each other?
Thanks
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Question 486533: How do you convert square feet into square yards? Like you are buying carpeting.
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Question 486420: ?- Elizabeth is walking from her home to meet her friend Andrew and back again. She walks 2 km uphill, 6 km down hill, and 3 km on level ground. She takes the same route both ways. It takes her 6 hours for a round trip. How far did she walk?
Work- I tried to examine what the problem gave me. She walks 2 km uphill and 6 km down hill, but there was no clarification in the problem that she even walked on a hill. So, the fact that she walks 3 km on level ground is almost as obsolete because there's no guarantee that she walked on a level surface either. I did the work assuming that she would walk an entirely flat surface which is obviously 3x6=18km. If I assume she goes up and down each for an hour and the rest is flat it's 4+12+6=22km. If I find the average speed she walks (3x2x6/3) then I get that she walked 12 km. I feel like I could figure this problem better if I just knew what information from the original problem I am missing.
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Question 486464: A car traveling 80 kilometers per hour is passed by a second car going in the same direction at a constant speed. After 30 seconds, the two cars are 500 meters apart. Find the speed of the second car.
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Question 486549: if a car travels 30km per hour how long would it take to travel 4000m
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Question 486532: if you are traveling at 60 miles per hour, how many kilometers per minute are you traveling?
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Question 486573: A sprinter can run at a top speed of 0.330 miles per minute.
Express her speed in m/s?
Express her speed in mi/h?
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Question 486586: If you are traveling at 75 miles an hour, and you drive fifty two miles what is the time you drive
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Question 485977: TA plane leaves New York for Los Angeles traveling at an average speed of 500 miles per hour (mph). A second plane leaves Los Angeles two hours later bound for New York. 3200 miles away. Taking advantage of the jet stream, the secound plane averages 600 mph. How many hours after the first plame took off will the two planes pass each other? [Hint: distance = (v)(t)]
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Question 486567: car traveling 60 mph. truck leaves 7 minutes later traveling 70 mph. when will truck pass car
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Question 486527: on friday a commuter train took 124 commuters to work and 19 commuter home how many commuters rode the train that day
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Question 483335: if you're going 720 mile trip and average 60 mph and take 2 one hour stops and five fifteen minute breaks for gas and you left a 6 a.m. at what time will you reach your destination
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Question 483327: Train A &B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40mph and Train B is traveling at 44mph. Train A passes a station at 8:15am. If Train B passes the same station at 8:45am, at what time will Train B catch up to train A?
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Question 483233: can anyone pls. answer this question,
it's all about distance/rate problem.
While waiting for his date, Noel takes a bus ride at 60 kph to a certain point and then walks back leisurely at 10 kph. The bus ride takes 15 minutes less than his walking. How far does he walk and for how long?
>>Thank You<<
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Question 483165: If you drove 30 kilometers/hr for 20 km then how long did it take you in seconds minutes and hours ?
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Question 483163: You and your friend live 12 miles apart. You leave home at the same time and travel toward each other. You walk at a rate of 4 miles per hour and your friend bicycles at a rate of 11 miles per hour.
a) How long after you leave home will you meet? How far from home will each of you be?
DIfference in the rate is 7 m/h. from there I
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Question 483162: If you drive 120 mi/hr for 6 seconds then how far will you go in miles and kilometers
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Question 483112: mike and adam left a bus terminal at the same time and traveled in opposite directions. mikes bus was in heavy traffic and had to travle 20 mi/h slower than adams bus. after 3 hours, there buses were 270 miles apart. how fast was each bus going?
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Question 486672: If a boy run the length of football field in half a minute,how many times he cover this distance in 15minutes
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Question 486745: A BOAT IS TRAVELLING AT A SPEED OF 56 KM PER HOUR. IT HAS TO TRAVEL A DISTANCE OF 1050 KM. HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?
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Question 486782: Ella can do a job for 5 hours while it takes Lyn 3 hours to do the same job. Ella worked on the job alone for 30 minutes then joined by Lyn. In how many hours will the job be finished?
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Question 486783: Two friends Mark and John went jogging. Their relative rates are as follows: Mark jogs a 2.6 km stretch for 1 hr while it takes John to jog the same stretch for 45 min. Mark started jogging alone for 2 hrs. At this instant John starting from the same point as Mark began to jog. In how many hours will John overtake Mark if ever he will?
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Question 486851: On the first segment of my trip I drove my car 405 miles on 18 gallons of gas. On the second segment of the trip I drove 183 miles on 6 gallons of gas. What are the miles per gallon for each segment of the trip and the overall miles per gallon for the entire trip?

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