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Question 546096: What is x. The sum of two numbers is 7. Three times one number is 17 more than the other number.
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Question 546147: mr.c drove 372 miles on 12 gallons of gas. what is the car's gas mileage?
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Question 546452: I'm having trouble with a word problem. It states: The current in a stream is 2mph. Find the speed of the boat in still water if it goes 26 miles downstream in the same amount of time it takes to go 18 miles upstream. I know I should use d=rt, but I don't know how. Thanks!
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Question 546472: Find the area, in square centimeters, of a rectangular strip of board 3.28 m long and 75 mm wide.
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Question 546473: A swimming pool 25 m by 10 m has a concrete border all round. Find the area of the concrete border if it is 2.5 m wide at the sides and 5 m at the ends.

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Question 546736: i need to know how to express each rate in miles per hour.
1. 10,560 feet in 2 hours
2. 1 mile in 300 seconds
3. 1 mile in 4 minutes
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Question 546860: if a car travel 10 miles in 9 min what is the rate of change of the car
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Question 546885: Joshua has tied his horse's rope to a post in a pasture so the horse can eat some grass. The portion of the rope between the horse and the post is 12 feet long. To the nearest whole number, What is the area of the circular region of the pasture where the horse will be able to graze? thank you
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Question 546884: if 27 ia added to a two digit number the result is a number with the same digit, but in reverse order. the sum of the digits is 11
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Question 546790: A stationary police car spots a vehicle travelling at speed. The police car accelerates flat out to apprehend suspect.
How fast in km/h would the police car have to travel to catch up to and match speeding cars speed within 3.3 kilometers if the speeding car is travelling at 144km/h?

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Question 546993: A boat travels upstream at a rate of 10km/h. It returns to the starting point at a ratee of 14 km/h. The entire trip takes 6 hours. How far upstream did the boat go?
I dont think I have enough information here to answer this question. Can you point me in the right direction?
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Question 547045: a cheetah was timed running 200 yards in 6 seconds. What was its average speed in miles per hour?
I am a mom trying to help my daughter with her math homework. Not sure where to begin with this. Do I divide 200 by 6? but then what? I need help!! Could you show me what the problem should look like? Thanks!! Amy
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Question 547081: two cars leave delhi at the same time travelling in opposite directions. if the average speed of one car is 5 km/hr more than that of the other and they are 425 km apart at the end of 5 hrs, what is the average speed of each?
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Question 547082: the speed of air craft is 180 km/h.how much the aircraft travel in 20 min.

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Question 547089: Find the number of 15-centimeter square tiles required to cover a rectangular floor 5.4 m long and 4.05 m wide.
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Question 547041: a train travels 100km in the same time that a plane covers 450 km. if the speed of the plane is 30km per hr less than 5 times the speed of the train , find both speeds..
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Question 547092: A bucket of water is brought up from a well 9.68 m deep by a rope which winds round a drum 22 cm in diameter. How many turns of the handle are required to bring up a bucket from the bottom of the well?
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Question 547099: At his usual rate a man rows 15 miles downstream in five hours less time than it takes him to return. If he doubles his usual rate, the time downstream is only one hour less than the time upstream. Find the rate of the streams current?
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Question 547000: a train leaves Slaton traveling east at 80 km/h. an hour later anothertrain leaves Slaton on a parallel track at 120 km/h. how far from Slaton will the trains meet?

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Question 547284: I am on a train travelling at 100 mph. If I walk to the back of the train at 2 mph am I going at 98 or 102
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Question 547284: I am on a train travelling at 100 mph. If I walk to the back of the train at 2 mph am I going at 98 or 102
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Question 547368: Joe drove 225 miles using 8 gallons of gas. At this rate, how many gallons of gas would he need to drive 405 miles?
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Question 547357: Jane drove miles using gallons of gas. At this rate, how many miles would she drive using gallons of gas?

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Question 547401: Two cars leave town at the same time trabeling in opposite directions One car travels at 65 miles per hour and the second at 45 miles per hour. In how many hours will the be 385 miles apart?
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Question 547493: Kendra bikes to work. She travels at a rate of 12 miles per hour. How long will it take her to bike 8 miles
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Question 547494: When Amy rollerskates, she moves 120 yards per minute. What is her speed in miles per hour?
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Question 547494: When Amy rollerskates, she moves 120 yards per minute. What is her speed in miles per hour?
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Question 547668: if a=2 and b=3,then 3a-2b is equal to
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Question 547714: it takes Ellen 9 hours to drive to a friend's cabin. Her sister Barb can make the drive in 8 hours by traveling 7mph faster than Ellen. What is Barb's average speed?

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Question 547684: Two cars leave town headed north at the same time. Car A is moving at 60 mph, and Car B is moving at 80 mph. How long will it be until the cars are 55 miles apart?
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Question 547710: A person travels 136 miles from one town to a city at an average speed of 77 mph and then returns home at an average speed of 56 mph.
What was the average speed over the total distance covered?
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Question 547641: I need to solve this question using the 5-step process for word problems, but I'm having trouble setting it up. Here's the question:
A plan flying the 3458 mile trip from New York City to London has a 50mph tailwind. The flight's point of no return is the point at which the fligt time required to return to New York City is the same as the time required to reach London. If the speed of the plan in still air is 360mph, how far is New York City from the point of no return?
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Question 547737: a racing bike travels at 15 km/h faster than a touring bike. if the racing bike travels 80km/hr in the same time as the touring bike travels 50 km, how fast is each bike?
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Question 547814: Two hikers, Alan and Ben, are 8.2 miles apart and walking towards each other. they meet in 2 hours. Find the rate of each hiker if Ben walks 0.5 mph faster than alan.
Alans rate of speed
Ben rate of speed..
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Question 547829: the departure times for two buses are shown below. (Bus a: departs at 9:00 A.M) and Bus b departs at 9:15 A.M.) Bus A travels at a rate of 20 miles per hour, and bus B travels at a rate of 24 miles per hour. At what time will theb uses hve traveled the same distance?
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Question 547482: A pilot in an airplane flying at 25,000 ft sees two towns directly ahead of her in a straight line. The angles of the depression to the towns are 25 degrees and 50 degrees, respectively. To the nearest foot, how far apart are the towns?
The answer is 32,635 ft but I'm not sure how to get that. Thank you.
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Question 548010: If Santa Claus can make 1 trip around the earth in 8hours,what is his average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 548096: An airplane travels at a constant speed of 800 kilometers per hour (km/h)
Approximately how long will it take the airplane to travel 200 kilometers?

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Question 548084: An airplane took 6 hours to fly between two cities, flying directly into a 50 mph wind. The return trip with the same wind took only 4 hours. What is the distance between the cities?
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Question 548147: if i walk for 4 hours and i travel 10 miles. how many feet can i walk per second

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Question 548087: Two planes leave at 9 AM from airports that are 2700 miles apart and fly towards each other at speeds of 200 mph and 250 mph.
At what time will they pass each other?

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Question 548169: A moving van leaves a house traveling at an average rate of 40 mi/h, the family leaves the house half an hour later following the same route, how far were they apart?
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