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Question 514564: A woman lives 3060 miles away and her flight will take 5 hours. How fast is the plane going?
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Question 514623: you are driving to a vacation spot that is 1500 miles away. Including rest stops it takes 42 hours to get there. You estimate that you drove 50 miles per hour. how many hours were you NOT driving?
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Question 514629: what is the unit rate 50km in 3h
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Question 514628: you and your friend are painting the walls of your apartment. You estimate that there is 1000 square feet to be painted. You paint at a rate of 4 Sq ft a minute while your friend paints at 3 sq ft a minute. your friend shows up 45 minutes after you have started painting.
write an equation that gives the total number of sq ft y as a function of the number of minutes x it takes to paint all the walls.
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Question 514782: If a car is going 65 miles an hour how long does it take to go 25 miles
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Question 514714: if one train leaves the station going 80mph and 3 hours later another train going at 100mph leaves the same exact station going the same direction on parallel tracks, what time will the second train catch up?

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Question 514834: An object is thrown vertically up and its height in feet after t seconds is given by the formula h(t)=96t-16t^2.
Question: After how many seconds does it return from initially leaving the person's hand does it take to return to its starting position?

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Question 514903: Jerry spent 2.5 hr. biking up Mount Lowe, rested at the top for 30 min, and biked down 1.5 hr. How far did he bike if his rate od ascent was 3 km/hr less than his rate of descent?
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Question 514905: If Gina leaves now and drives 66 km/h she will reach Alton just in time for her appointment. On the other hand, if she has lunch first and leaves in 40 minutes, she will have to drive 90km/h to make her appointment. How far away is Alton?
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Question 514788: While driving the matamatics team to a contest, the driver noticed that the odometer on the bus read 21,912. The driver also noticed that this number was a palindrome, reading backwards and frontwards. The team sponsor said " I'll bet it will be a long time before that happen again!" However, just 105 minutes later, the driver reported that the odometer showed another palindrome(22022). How fast was the bus travling during that time?
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Question 514700: In a bicycle race, Miss Muffet gives Mary Contrary a 500m advantage. Also, Miss Muffet agrees to start 15 minutes after Mary Contrary. Now, just as the race began, Miss Muffet saw a spider near her tuffet, and took off at 17km/h. Mary Contrary takes off at 14km/h. How long will it take Miss Muffet to overtake Mary Contrary.
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Question 514926: if your driving 50 miles per hour how many miles will you travel in 1.8 hours ?
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Question 514961: A bullet travels at 900 m/s. How long will it take a bullet to go 2 km?
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Question 467571: Two Friends left school at the same time and drove in opposite directions. One friend averages 40 miles per hour and the other friend averages 35 miles per hour.When will they be 150 miles apart?
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Question 515022:
Two bicycles depart from Miami Beach going in opposite directions. The first bicycle is traveling at
10 miles per hour. The second bicycle travels at 5 miles per hour. How long does it take until the bikes are 45 miles apart?

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Question 515027:
During a 4th of July weekend, 32 vehicles became trapped on the Sunshine Sky way Bridge while it was being repaved. A recent city ordinance decreed that only cars with 4 wheels and trucks with six wheels could be on the bridge at any given time. If there were 148 tires that needed to be replaced to due to damage, how many cars and trucks were involved in the incident?

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Question 514789: If Jim's boat goes 30 mph upstream and 50 mph downsteam. What is the speed of the current and the boat in still water? I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SET THIS UP!! thanks!
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Question 514809: A jet airliner flies at 300 mph for the first half hour and last half hour of a flight. The rest of the time it flies at 600 mph. How long does it take to fly a distance of 2700 miles?
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Question 515161: The 20 inch diameter wheels of one car travel at a rate of 24 revolutions per minute, while the 30 inch diameter wheels of another car travel at a rate of 18 revolutions per minute. What is the ratio of the speed of the second car to that of the first?
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Question 515172: a car travels 1.2 km in 1 min. what is average speed in kilometers per hour? how do you know?

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Question 514833: A trip involves 15 miles on a dirt trail and 90 miles on a freeway. The velocity for the freeway portion was 30 mph more than the velocity for the dirt trail portion. The entire trip took 2 hours. What was the velocity, in miles per hour, for each part of the trip?
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Question 515185: Find the LCM of (9+7r), (81-49r^2), and (9-7r)
Thanks,
Dee

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Question 515194: a car and a bus leave from the same spot and drive in opposite directions. the bus is travelling 11mph slower than the car. in 4.25 hours the car and bus are 174 miles apart. find the average speed of the car.
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Question 515176: Kathy bicycles 4/km/h faster than Robert. In the same time it takes Robert to bicycle 57 km, Kathy can bicycle 69km. How fast does each bicyclist travel?
Robert -
Kathy -
Thank you,
Diane

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Question 515191: find all numbers for which the rational expression is undefined
-19/18y
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Question 515221: You drop a rock into a deep well. You can't see the rock's impact at the bottom, but you hear it after 4 seconds.The time that passes after you drop the rock has two components: the time it takes the rock to reach the bottom of the well, and the time that it takes the sound of the impact to travel back to you. Assume the speed of sound is 1100 feet per second. d=16T^2

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Question 514975: Denny walks 60miles in one minute, and John travels 210 miles in one minute by bike. If Denny has already walked 1800miles, how many minutes will it take for John to catch up with Denny by bike assuming Denny continues to walk?
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Question 515242: I was wondering how long it would take to walk 1,050 miles?
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Question 515225: A plane flying against the wind flew 480 miles in 4 hours. The return trip, with the wind, only took 3 hours. Find the speed of the plane and the speed of the wind.
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Question 515313: A car covers the first 39 km of its journey in 45 minutes and covers the remaining 25 km in 35 minutes. What is the average speed of the Car?
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Question 514902: At 9:30 am Andrew left Exeter for Portsmouth cycling at 12mi/hr. At 10 am Stacey left Portsmouth for Exeter cycling at 16mi/hr. The distance from Exeter to Portsmouth is 20 miles. Find the times when they met?

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Question 515385: A race car went 500 miles in 4 hours. Find its average rate of speed.
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Question 515497: A boat travels 150 miles downstream with the current in 6 hours and 114 upstream against the current in the same amount of time.Find the speed of the current and the speed of the boat in still water. Please include variables and representation.
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Question 515492: two planes leave an airport. one going eat the other west. the eastbound travels 20 mph slower.They are 3120 mles apart after 4 hours. Find the speed of each plane
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Question 515508: jeremy pays for lunch using 75 coins consisting of quarters and nickles. If the total for his lunch is $13.55, find the number of quarters and nickles.
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Question 515522: If a runner runs the mile in 4 minutes and 15 seconds. What is his speed in miles/ hours?

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Question 515427: Two runners, one averaging 8 miles per hour and the other 6 miles per hour, they start at the same place and run along the same trail. The slower runner arrives at the end of the trail a half hour after the faster runner. How far did each person run?
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Question 515503: How many gallons of a 5% solution should be mixed with a 10% solution to obtain 50 gallons of a mixture that is 8%?
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Question 515502: Natasha inherits $50,000 and decides to give $20,000 to charity. With the remaining money she invests, into two stocks paying 16% and 25%. If she makes $6060 on the two investments, find how much money is invested in each stock. Please include variables and representation.
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Question 515517: in three hours, 1650 gallons were drained out out of a swimming pool. at this rate, how many gallons will be drained out in 8 hours?

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Question 515545: Two trains leave stations 256 miles apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One train travels at 85 miles per house while the other travels at 75 miles per hour. How long will it take for the two trains to meet? Do not do any rounding.
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Question 515499: the perimeter of a basketball court is 228 ft. If the length of the court is 6 ft longer than twice the the width. find the dimensions of the basketball court. Please include variables and representation.
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Question 515565: At the beginning of a walk, Roberto and juanita are 5.5 miles apart. If they leave at the same time and walk the same direction, Roberto overtakes juanita in 11 hours. If they walk towards each other they meet up in 1 hour. What are their speeds.
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