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Question 486959: Michael drove to a friends house at 40mph. He returned by the same route at 45mph. THe driving time for the round trip was 4 hours. What is the distance Michael traveled?
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Question 487145: Hello, my name is niya. I am in the eighth grade and taking algebra honors. I need help with this word problem. A hot air ballon at 300 feet begins to rise at the rate of 100 feet per minute. At the same time, a second hot-air ballon at 2,00 feet starts to descend at the rate of 150 feet per minute.
a. When will the ballons be at the same height?
b. What is the height?
c. What is the height of the ascending ballon when the descending ballon reaches the grouond?
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Question 487177: the elevator in the washington monument takes 75 seconds to travel 500 feet to the top floor. what is the speed of the elevator in miles per hour? give your answer to two significant digits.
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Question 487176: Two planes leave simultaneously from the same airport, one flying due north and one flying due east. The northbound plane is flying 50 mph faster than the eastbound plane. After 3 hours they are 2440 miles apart. Find the speed of each plane.
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Question 487196: I need help on the following word problem.
A commuter bus takes 2 hours to get downtown; an express bus, averaging 25 mph faster, takes 45 minutes to cover the same route. What is the average speed for the commuter bus?
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Question 487218: Katie travels 2 kilometers/hour uphill, 6 kilometers/hour downhill, and 3 kilometers/hour on level ground. She traveled a total of 6 hours to and from Bobby's house. What is her total distance that she walked?
Every time that I tried to figure it out, I got 22 as an answer, but my professor told me that that answer was wrong.
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Question 486794: Working together, two men can do a job in 20 days. Working alone, however, it would take one man 9 days longer than it would take the other to complete the job. How long would it take each separately?
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Question 486932: Lafe is in his 4*4 300 miles due east of a car driven by shannell and is traveling due west at 30 mph. Shannell is speeding at 60 mph due north. At what time are they closest to each other.
I know this one is a minimizing problem and i tried to draw a picture of the situation but it is not making much sense.
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Question 487486: You drive a car 3 h at 48 km/h, then 3 h at 67 km/h.
What is your average velocity?
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Question 487422: Carlos and Maria drove a total of 24 miles in 4.9 hours. Carlos drove the first part of the trip and averaged 54 mph. Maria drove the remainder of the trip and averaged 47 mph. For approximately how many hours did Maria drive/ Thanks for your help.
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Question 487769: You are traveling on a local highway at 70 mph. I am moving at 65 mph in the same direction. At what velocity do you appear to move to me?
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Question 487844: A plane traveled 416 miles to Des Moines and back. The trip there was with the wind. It took 4 hours. The trip back was into the wind. The trip took 8 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 487869: Jack travels from A to B at 30 mph, and returns at 10 mph. Jill leaves at the same time as Jack, and travels from A to B and back at a constant speed of 20 mph. Who gets back first?
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Question 487892: two trains are 450 miles apart heading toward eachother on parallel tracks train A is traveling at 35 mph and train B is traveling west at 45mph when will the trains pass eachother?

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Question 487931: one car travels 50 mph. if they start from the same place going the same direction, and the second car leaves an hour after the first car, how long will it take the second car to catch up?
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Question 487683: To reach city A, you travel north for 2.00 hours covering 80.0 miles. You then turn due east and travel 45.0 minutes for another 20.0 miles to reach your destination. On the first leg of your trip (traveling north), what is your speed?

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Question 487972: A car was going 60 mph and a truck was going 55 mph. They are coming towards each other and are 450 miles apart. They both leave at 5 pm. When will they meet?
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Question 488023: How do I solve the following:
A freight train leaves the train station 2 hours before a passenger train. The two trains are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. If the rate of the passenger train is 20 mph faster than the frieght train, how fast is each train traveling if the passenger train passes the freight train in 3 hours.
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Question 488041: john took two hours and 30 minuets to ride his motor cycle 125 miles. What was his average speed?
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Question 488053: How many cars are there in a long freight train if it take the entire train 2 minutes to pass a station as it travels at 40 miles/hour? Each car is 50 feet long. 5280 ft = 1 mile
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Question 488066: Janice can mow the lawn in 2 hours. Her friend can mow the same lawn in 2 hours. How long would it take them to mow the lawn if they had two lawn mowers and worked for the same lenght of time?
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Question 488103: How much water should be added to 20mL of 13% alcohol solution to reduce the concentration to 10%?
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Question 488121: luis begins walking at speed of 4mph, 45mins later his wife notices he left his wallet so gets on her bike and begins riding at 24mph along the same path luis took
How long will it take for her to catch luis?
How far from their house will she catch luis?
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Question 488175: In a bicycle race,lionel gives robert a 500meter advantage. Also, Lionel starts 15minutes after Rober. If lionel bikes at 17km/h and robert at 14km/h, how long will it take lionel after he starts biking to overtake robert?
pleasee help thanks:)
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Question 488180: For a recent job, an electrician earned $50 per hour, and the electrician's apprentice earned $20 per hour. The electrician worked 4 hours more than the apprentice, and together they earned a total of $550. How much money did each person earn?
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Question 488183: An airplane travels at 800 km/h. How long does it take to travel 1.20 km?

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Question 488185: a train travels at 55 miles per hour. how many miles would it travel in 45 minutes?
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Question 488186: a train travels at 55 miles per hour. how many miles would it travel in 45 minutes?
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Question 488032: Need your help... Don't understand, how to figure this out....
the speed of a bicycle from 10 km/h to 15 km/h over the course of 1 hr. Calculate the bicycle's acceleration
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Question 487956: suppose you take a trip that covers 320km and takes 2 hours
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Question 488233: Your average speed is 18mph, your distance traveled is 1.1 miles. What is your top speed expressed in mph?
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Question 488292: Please help me solve this word problem, I do not understand what to do.
It takes John 30 minutes to clean his house, When his wife helps him, it only takes him 18 minutes. How long would it take his wife by herself?
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Question 488299: a man rides up a ski lift at the rate of 5 miles an hour and skis back down the hill at the rate of 50 miles an hour. if the complete trip requires 22 minutes, how far is it from the bottom to the top of the hill?
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Question 488492: suppose you have entered a 155 mile biathlon that consists of a bicycle race and a running race. during your run your velocity is 10 miles per hour and during your bicycle race your velocity is 29 miles per hour. you finish the race in 6 hours. what is the distance of your run? what is the distance of your bicycle race?
155-d/29
155(10)/29
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Question 488607: Phil jogged three times as many as David. If they jogged a total of 16 miles, how far did each one jog?
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Question 488550: i need to know, a train travels at the rate of 120 km per hour
What is its speed in meters per second?
What is its speed in meters per minute? show ur work. get me back asap
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Question 488673: A long distance trucker traveled 180 miles in one direction during a snow storm. The return trip in rainy weather was accompolished at double spped and took 3 hours less time. Find the speed going?
The speed going was ____mph
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Question 488762: A car traveled 1682 miles at 58 miles per hour. Hour many hours did it take?
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Question 488890: 2 children are balanced on a seesaw. One of them weighing 40 lbs is 6 feet from the fulcrum. How far from the fulcrum on the other side must the other child sit if he weighs 60 lbs?

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Question 488985: If Mount Everest is 29,028 feet tall, how many miles is this?
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Question 489149: Two fishing boats depart a harbor at the same time, one traveling east, the other south. The eastbound boat travels at a speed 7 mi/h faster than the southbound boat. After four hours the boats are x = 52 mi apart. Find the speed of the southbound boat.
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