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Question 499860: boat A left a port at 7:00a.m.traveling at 30 miles per hour at 9:00a.m. boat B left the same port traveling at 40mph what time did boat B overtake boat A?
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Question 499912: A boat traveled 240 miles downstream and back. The trip downstream took 12 hours. The trip back
took 120 hours. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current.
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Question 499873: Two cars leave Orlando heading towards Atlanta. The first car is going 50 mph and the second car is gping 70 mph. The first car leaves at 9am and the second car leaves at 11am. How long will it take for the second car to pass the first car? Thank you very much.
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Question 499953: From Franklin Springs, GA to Dallas, TX it is 877 miles. Assume one third of the trip you travel 75 mph, another third 70 mph, and the last third 65 mph. How long will it take you to get there?
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Question 499982: if you walk 1.5 meters per second, how long will it take to walk 10 kilometers
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Question 500002: If a cylinder 8m high has a volume of 32pi m3, what is its radius?
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Question 500037: If Im driving 65 mph how long will it take me to drive 4 miles.
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Question 500071: Two trucks leave a depot at approximately the same time and travel the same route. How far apart are the trucks after 2� hours if their average speeds are 44 miles per hour and 56 miles per hour?
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Question 500099: If a race car completes a 4 mi oval track in
71.9 s, what is its average speed?
Answer in units of mi/h
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Question 500122: If a car travels 250 miles in 7 hours, what speed is it going?
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Question 500147: A baseball goes from zero to 46 m/s in 0.115 s.
What is its average acceleration?
Answer in units of m/s2
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Question 500142: What is the acceleration of a vehicle that
changes its velocity from 100 km/h to a dead
stop in 20 s ?
Answer in units of m/s2
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Question 500140: An airliner travels 135 miles in 15 minutes. What is its speed in mph?
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Question 500132: What is the acceleration of a vehicle that
changes its velocity from 100 km/h to a dead
stop in 20 s ?
Answer in units of m/s2
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Question 500128: A baseball goes from zero to 46 m/s in 0.115 s.
What is its average acceleration?
Answer in units of m/s2
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Question 500134: A car traveling in a straight line has a velocity
of 3.29 m/s at some instant. After 4.99 s, its
velocity is 8.29 m/s.
What is its average acceleration in this time
interval?
Answer in units of m/s2
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Question 500247: MY SCHOOL IS 12.531 KM FROM MY HOUSE. wHAT DISTANCE WILL I TRAVEL IF I GO AND COME BACK 8 TIMES
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Question 500268: if a bus travels 300km at a given speed. if the speed is increased to 10 kph the trip would have been reduced by one hour.find the speed of the bus.
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Question 500270: Two cars pass on a highway while traveling in oppisite directions.One car is traveling 6 mph faster than the other car.After 1 hour and 30 minutes the two cars are 171 miles apart.Find speed of car.
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Question 500274: I can row upstream at 2mph and downstream at 8mph. How far can I row to get back to starting point in 5 hours.
I know answer is 16 miles as in 4 hours I can row 8 miles upstream and in one hour I can return for total of 5 hours and 8 miles each way for total of 16 miles but what is correct equation. I am stumped as to how to do this algebraically? Thanks for your help. cpmurphy@sbcglobal.net
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Question 500287: How many km can a car travel in 2 hours at 40km/h

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Question 500351: I need to know the formula to get this answer.
Mike drove uphill to his school and it took 3 hours. He returned downhill only going 5mph faster and made it in two hours. What is the average rate of speed?
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Question 500402: What is the average velocity in km/h?
Answer in units of km/h
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Question 500417: A red car leaves San Francisco heading south going 52 mph. One hour later a blue car leaves heading in the same direction going 65 mph. How long before the blue car passes the red car?
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Question 500382: Five friends drove at an average rate of 55 miles per hour to a weekend retreat. On the way home, they took the same route but averaged 75 miles per hour. What was the distance between home and the retreat if the round trip took 10 hours?
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Question 500595: Two vehicles are travelling towards each other, with a distance of 141 km between them. One is travelling at 70 km/h and the other at 24 km/h. How long will it take for them to meet? Pulling our hair out!!! ;-)
Thank you!!!
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Question 500617: HOW MUCH TIME WILL IT TAKE IF YOU WERE TRAVELING BY A CAR 55 MPH AND BY A PLANE 300 MPH

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Question 500724: he ditance between the school and the museum is 24 miles. if the bus driver averages 36 miles per hour how long would it take to travel from the school to the musem
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Question 500747: If a plane is traveling at 550mph how far would it get in a 1 and 45 mintues?

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Question 500819: A long distance trucker travels 144 miles in one direction during a snow storm. Their return trip in rainy weather was completed at double speed and took 3 hours less time. What is the speed?
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Question 500880: can someone please help me?
A porsche and VW bug that were 450 miles apart traveled toward eachother. They met after 5 hours. If one car traveled twice as fast as the other, what were their speed?
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Question 500846: Pauline and Valerie leave simultaniously from the same point hiking in opposite directions, Pauline walking at 2 mph and Valerie at 3 mph. How long can they talk on their walkie-talkied �if the walkie-talkies have 30 mile radius?

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Question 500895: a car leaves san diego at 1 pm traveling at a constant rate of 40 mph toward LA. 30 mins later, another car leaves san diego traveling toward LA at a constant speed of 55 mph. After what time is the distance between the cars 15 miles?
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Question 500903: An airplane flies from City A in a straight line to City B, which is 60 kilometers north and 150 kilometers west of City A. How far does the plane fly? (Round your answer to the nearest kilometer.)

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Question 500910: A passenger plane made a trip to Las Vegas and back. On the trip there it flew 432 mph and on the return trip it went 480 mph. How long did the trip there take if the return trip took nine hours?
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Question 500954: the work and answer for 3535 feet in miles.
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Question 500983: An airplane takes 5 hours to travel a distance of 4400km against the wind. The return trip takes 4 hours with the wind. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 500987: A car is driven 360 miles in 8 hours? What is the rate in miles per hour?
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Question 501008: Hi!
I am sorry if this kind of question has been asked often before, but I just couldnt figure out how to solve and I would be so thankful if anyone could tell how to solve this mathematically. Thanks so much in advance!

"Through a combination of sight, sound, and smell a rabbit can detect a fox at 42 yards. When the rabbit detects the fox, it runs immediately straight to its hole. If the fox can run twice as fast as the rabbit, what is the maximum distance from its hole that a rabbit can safely venture? Assume that the rabbit escapes if they arrive at the hole at the same time."
Kind regards
Fube
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Question 501107: You drive 20 miles at 55 mph, then 5 miles at 40 mph and finally, 2 miles at 25 mph. What is your average speed for this trip?
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Question 501037: a motorist drove 150 miles on a country roads before driving 50 miles on a mountain roads. The rate of speed on the country roads was three times the rate on the mountain roads. The time spend traveling was 200 miles was 5 hours. Find the rate of the motorist on the country roads
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