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Question 490906: The time a passenger train takes to cross another freight train is twice when the passenger train crosses the freight train running in opposite directions. What is the ratio of their speeds?? how to solve such kinda Q??
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Question 491121: You are driving 52 miles per hour, how many feet will you travel in 40 seconds?
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Question 491125: Two cyclists, 128 miles apart, start riding toward each other at the same time. One cycles 3 times as fast as the other. If they meet 4 hours later, what is the speed (in mi/h) of the faster cyclist?
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Question 491200: A police car leaves in pursuit of holdup car 0.5 hours after the latter has left the scene of the crime at 86mi/hr. How fast in mi/hr must the police car go if it is to catch up with the holdup car in one hour?
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Question 491453: the hot air balloon has traveled 45 miles. This is 3/4 of it's final destination. How much further does it have to go?
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Question 491551: A train traveling at 45.0 miles per hour has to make a trip of 120.0 miles. how many minutes will the trip take>
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Question 491602: Two cars are 525 miles apart. They start at the same time and travel toward each other. One travels at a rate of 55mph and the other at a rate of 50mph. In how many hours will they meet?
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Question 491609: There are many NFL players that can run 135 feet in 6 seconds. At this rate, what is the speed in miles per hour?
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Question 491604: Your friend's family moved to a town 300 miles from where you live. You and your friend decide to meet halfway between the two towns to visit. Your friend averages 50 miles for hour on his trip. You average 60 miles per hour on your trip. If you and your friend leave at the same place, how much earlier do your arrive at the same place?
I don't understand how to come up with an equation for this problem.
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Question 491645: Two trains heading toward each other are 360 miles apart. One train travels at 10 mi/hr faster than the other train. If they meet in four hours how fast is each train traveling?
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Question 491698: If the equation describing the motion of a rocket is x=10+5t^2, find its average speed during the first 5.0 seconds of flight.
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Question 491716: how many liters of 60% alcohol solution and 40% alcohol solution should be mixed to obtain twenty liters of a 45% alcohol solution?
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Question 491891: An aircraft carrier left Hawaii traveling west seven hours before a container ship. The containe ship traveled in the opposite direction going 5 km/h slower than the aircraft carrier for six hours. At this time the ships were 540 km apart. Find the speed of both ships.
I can't figure out how to set up the equation.

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Question 491853: New York is about 200 km from Baltimore. Car A leaves New York headed for Baltimore traveling at 96 km/hr, and Car B leaves Baltimore headed for New York traveling at 66 km/hr.
a.) Where does car A and B cross paths?
b.) When does car A meet car B? ( I think the #B answer is 200km/96+66 = 1.23 second)
Thank you,
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Question 491880: A jet airplane must achieve a velocity of 360 km/h before it can take off. If the runway
is 1800 m, what must have been its acceleration?
Thank you,
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Question 491879: Jenny drove to her cabin on the lake and back. It took 0.6 hours longer to get there than it did to get back. The average speed of the trip was 46 km/h. The average speed of the trip back was 52 km/h. How many hours did the trip there take?
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Question 491869: Two cars leave from the same point and travel to the same destination. Car A travels
at a velocity of 96 km/h and the car B travels at a velocity of 86 km/h; Car A arrives at
the distination 20 minutes before car B. How far was it from the start to finish?
Thank you
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Question 491409: A plane flying the 3458-mile trip from New York City to London, has a 50 mph tail wind. The flight's point of no return is the point at which the flight time required to return to New York is the same as the time required to continue to London. If the speed of the plane in still air is 360 mph, how far is New York from the point of no return?
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Question 492169: Two cars left a store traveling in opposite directions. the faster of the two traveled 80 km/hr. the slower car traveled 70 km/hr. after how many hours were they 375 km apart?
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Question 492251: Train speeds: A train leaves Cincinatti at 2:00 pm. A second train leaves the same station in the same direction at 4:00 pm. The second train travels 24 mph faster than the first. If the second train overtakes the first at 7:00 pm, what is the speed of each of the two trains?
I need to know how to set this problem up-thank you
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Question 491861: Can someone walk through with me?
A ball is thrown vertically downward from the top of a 36.6 m tall building. the ball passes the top of a window that is 12.2 m above the ground 2.00 seconda after being thrown. What is the speed of the ball as it passes the top of the window?
Thank you,
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Question 492398: John will be x in 7 years. How old was he last year?

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Question 491993: CAR A is traveling with uniform velocity of 30m/s. at the instant it passes car B at rest,the car starts to accelerate 3.5 m/s in the same direction as the velocity of car A. After how many seconds will car B overtake car A? How far will car B travel before overtaking car A? thank you so much!
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Question 492589: During a morning run you covered a distance of 3.0 miles in 30 minutes. What is your pace in kilometers per hour (km/h)?
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Question 492664: Shane returned from a trip to Las Vegas with , which was more money than he had at the beginning of the trip. How much money did Shane have at the beginning of his trip?

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Question 492611: A car starts with an initial velocity of 30 mph and drives for 30 mins with an acceleration of 5 m/s. How far does it travel?
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Question 492634: a 5-ft diagonal brace on a bridge connects a support of the center of the bridge to a side support on the bridge. The horizontal distance that it spans is 1 ft longer than the height that it reaches on the side of the bridge. Find the horizontal and vertical distances spanned by this brace.
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Question 492691: a man drove from his home to the airport at a distance of 40 miles and then returned home on the same way. the round trip took 2 hours. his speed on the return trip was 30 miles/hr faster than his speed in going. what was his rate of speed on the trip from his home.
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Question 492720: two automobiles set out simultaneously from places 100 miles apart. they traveled toward each other and passed at the end of 1 hour and 40 minutes. the speed of one automobile was 5 miles per hour greater than of the other. find the speed of each. can you please answer it for me? thanks!
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Question 492757: A car is traveling at 77 miles per hour. What is its speed in m/s?
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Question 492779: Van leaves traveling at 35mph, when a car traveling at 50mph leaves 45 later, when will the car catch up to the van?
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Question 492877: joe drove a rate of 24 mph for 3 hours then he drove at 40mph for another 5 hours. What is his average speed for the entire trip?
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Question 492923: Two planes, which are 4425 miles apart, fly toward each other. their speeds differ by 35 mph. If they pass each other in 5 hours, what is the speed of each?
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Question 492943: Jane drove to an appointment averaging 60 mph. On the return trip, her average speed was 28 mph due to traffic, and she took 24 minutes longer. How far did she travel to the appointment?
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Question 492936: Cindy's alarm clock loses 0.4 minutes in 5 hours. At this rate, how much will it lose in 14 hours

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Question 493256: Michael is traveling at 45 mph to his friends house. When he goes home the same way he travels at 40 mph. The round trip takes 4 hours in total. How much distance is the whole trip.
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Question 493367: flying to kampala with a tailwind a plane averaged 158 km/h. on the return trip the plane only averaged 112 km/h while flying back into the same wind. find the speed of the wind and the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 493492: A long - distance runner goes a mile in four minutes. What is her speed in miles per hour?
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Question 493396: a boy on his bicycle intends to arrive at a certain time to a town that is 30 km away from his home . after riding 10 km, he rested for half an hour and as a result he was obliged to ride the rest of the trip 2km/hr faster . what was his original speed ?
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Question 493645: how much time will it take for a jogger to run 12 kilometers at a constant 4 meters per second? (please answer in minutes or hours.)
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Question 493641: How many miles do you go in 75 minutes at a rate of 17.5 miles per hour?
Thanks!
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Question 493655: Two ships depart a port at the same time. One travels 11 degrees west of south at 45 mph while the other travels 22 degrees north of east at 21 mph. How far apart are they after 73 minutes?
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Question 493688: A plane travels to New York and back. On the trip there it flew 532 mph and on the return trip it went 580 mph. How many total miles did the plane fly?
d=rt
going 532
returning 580
d=rt
d=556 total miles
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