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Question 528473: How do you write an algebraic equation for a car that travels 60 miles, gets 20 mpg and gas costs $2.50 per gallon?
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Question 528462: Please help me solve this problem:
A boat travels 60 km upstream (against the current) in 5 hours. The boat travels the same distance downstream in 3 hours. What is the rate of the boat in still water? What is the rate of the current?
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Question 528512: Two people are on opposite ends of a building they are 4780.4 feet apart walking towards each other, one walks at 1.5 feet per second and the other walks at 2.2 feet per second. how long will it take before they meet?
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Question 528531: An animal runs with velocity 50 km/h for 6 minutes, 12 km/h for the next 3 minutes, and 40 km/h for another 5 minutes. Compute the total distance traveled.
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Question 527989: I have $3,250 in an account that I wont touch for 6 years. Durinng that time I get 6% interest every month. How much money will I have in 6 years?
Thanks for reading and hopefully answerinng my question :)
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Question 528593: Martha can rake the leaves in her yard in 3 hours. Her younger brother can do the job in 5 hours. How long will it take them to the job if they work together?
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Question 528206: A fighter plane and a helicopter set off from airbase A at the same time. The helicopter travels on a bearing of 152 degrees and the fight plane travels on a bearing of 242 degrees at three times the speed. They arrive at bases B and C respectively after 2 hours. If B and C are 1200 km apart, find the average speed of the helicopter ?
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Question 528679: In a 60 mile trip, the first 30 miles took 40 minutes. The average speed of the entire trip was 54 mph. What is the speed in miles per hour of the last 30 miles?
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Question 528650: how far dose a car go a minute if it going 20 kilometers an hour

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Question 528734: A ball is thrown directly upward from ground level with an initial speed of 80ft/s. How high will it go? When will it return to the ground?

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Question 528583: a car traveled 1520 miles at a certain speed. if the speed had been 19 mph faster, the trip could have been made in 4 hr less time. find the speed

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Question 528950: how long does it take a bus traveling 40 mph to travel 130 miles
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Question 529443: calculate the average speed if a car travels 358 km in 6 hours and 30 minutes,
how would i work it out?
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Question 529459: A train is moving at the speed of 90 km/h. What is the speed of the train in m/s?
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Question 529388: A hiker traveled at an average rate of 2 kilometers per hour (km/h) going up to a lookout and traveled at an average rate of 5 km/h coming back down. If the entire trip (not counting a lunch stop at the lookout) took approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes, what is the total distance the hiker walked? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a kilometer.
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Question 529505: I need help!
A person travels 15 miles in 1/3 of an hour, then returns by traveling that same 15 miles in 1/7 of an hour. What is that person's average rate for the trip?

thank you
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Question 529643: Al goes 8 mph; Ben goes 20 mph in the opposite direction. How many hours has Ben traveled when they are 180 miles apart?
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Question 529611: If a car travels 60 mph in a straight ine from Carteret County to Los Angeles, non-stop, how long would it take to get there?
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Question 529580: 1)A lorry travels at 50km per hour. Given that diameter of its wheel is 88Cm, find how many revolutions per minute the wheel is turning. Give your answer to the nearest whole no.
2)what is the cost of spraying insecticide on a field measuring 2000m by 3200m if the cost is $22 per hectare.
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Question 529579: If Steven can mix 20 drinks in 5 minutes, Sue can mix 20 drinks in 10 minutes, and Jack can mix 20 drinks in 15 minutes, how much time will it take all 3 of them working together to mix the 20 drinks?
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Question 529922: A car and bus leave at the same time and travel to the same place. The car travels 21 mph faster than the bus and gets there in four hours. The bus gets there two hours later. Find the speed of the bus and car.
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Question 529921: two high speed trains are 290 miles apart and traveling toward each other. They meet in 5 hours. If one train's speed is 10 miles faster per hour than the other, find the speed of each train.
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Question 529941: Kara floats from a campsite to a lodge at 6 km/h. She returns by motorboat at 18km/h. The float trip is 4 hours longer than the motorboat trip. How far is it from the campsite to the lodge?
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Question 529971: how much quicker will a car arrive at the destination if it travels at 80mph and not 70mph
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Question 529981: are (2,9) and (-3,-6) both on the line y = 4x+ 6 ?
if not find an equation for the line that pass through both points
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Question 530019: a train travels at 120 miles per hour. How long will it take to travel 150 miles
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Question 529923: so. buddy. to put this into to context, we were playing a video game in which you can fly jet planes. we were flying to a location that was 3.5km away. the distance was dropping steadily at 100 m/sec.
what we were wondering, was what the average speed of the plane be?
churrz
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Question 530172: a train travels 180 miles in an hour less time than a bus traveling the same distance. if the speed of the bus is 15 mph slower that the speed of the train, find the speed of the train and bus?
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Question 530174: how do you solve this: a train travels 60 miles an hour for 20 min. how far did the train go?
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Question 530167: if you are 60 miles away and driving 40mph how long will it take to get to your destination.
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Question 530220: How do you solve this problem: How far does the tip of the minute hand of a clock move in 175 minutes if the hand is 4.8 inches long?
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Question 530294: How fast do u have to be going to be going a mile a minute?
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Question 530416: if a car drives at 76 km/hr, how far does the car go in 8 hours?
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Question 530455: Two trains leave simultaneously from stations that are 360 miles apart. If one train is traveling at 40 miles per hour and the other is traveling 50 miles per hour, how far (along the track) from the nearest station will they meet?
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Question 530485: A car travels 120 miles on 6 gallons of gas. How many gallons will it need to travel 460 miles?
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Question 530475: John rented a truck for one day. There was a base fee of $ 15.99 , and there was an additional charge of 99 cents for each mile driven. John had to pay when he returned the truck. For how many miles did he drive the truck?
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Question 530487: Tyrone can paint a kitchen in 7 hours, and Shauna can paint the same kitchen in 6 hours. How long would it take for both working together to paint the kitchen? (you can leave your answer as an improper fraction or a mixed number).
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Question 530496: John rented a truck for one day. There was a base fee of $ 15.99 , and there was an additional charge of 99 cents for each mile driven. John had to pay$ 174.42 when he returned the truck. For how many miles did he drive the truck?
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Question 530479: here is my problem: Tara went bike riding. For the first part of her trip, she road at an average speed of 15 miles per hour. Then, she took a break for 15 minutes. For her return trip, she rode her bike at an average speed of 16 miles per hour. Altogether, Tara bike rode 42.5 miles in 3 hours. How long did the return portion of her trip last?
I have: 15X + 16(3-X)= 42.5
but I don't know where to put the 15 min break. Am I on the right road here at all?
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Question 530513: (AIR TRAVEL) Two jets bound for Dammam leave Jeddah 30 minutes apart. The first travels 550 miles per hour, while the second goes 650 miles per hour. At what time will the second plane pass the first?
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Question 530542: A truck is 300 miles due east of a car and is traveling at a constant speed of 30 miles per hour. Meanwhile, the car is going north at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour. Express the distance between the car and truck as a function of time
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Question 530607: A boy walks at 11a.m. at 20mph and another boy starts at 1pm with 35mph on the same route. At what time , the second boy will catch the first boy?
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