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Question 553491: a bicyclist make the trip between two towns in 5.25 hours. A car with an average speed 30 miles faster than the bicycle, makes the same trip in 1.5 hours. How fast is the car going?
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Question 553486: A boat makes a 120-mile trip downstream in 3 hours but makes the return trip in 4 hours. What is the rate of the current?
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Question 553480: if a person rides a bike covering 7 1/2 mile an a hour how many will that person cover in miles within 4.5 hours
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Question 553372: Hello, I need help on this problem, if you don't mind may you please show most of the steps? Thanks!
Two trains leave Sacramemto at the same time. One travel East at 40mph. The other traveled West at 60mph.Write amd solve a system of linear equations that can be used to determine when the trains are 280 miles apart.
Thank You!!!
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Question 553512: 2. You run 2 kilometers at 10 km/hr and then walk another 2 kilometers at 5 km/hr. What is your average speed for the whole 4-km trip?
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Question 553446: Repeat question with more clarity
If truck A is traveling South at 56 mph, and car B passes at 80 mph in the same direction, how fast is Car C traveling North on the same HWY in the opposite direction traveling to meet Truck A and car B in less than 1 minute?

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Question 553584: Hello! I have a word problem and I have no idea how to solve it, if you could solve it and show me the steps:
A rock is thrown from a top of the tall building. The distance,in feet, between the rock and the ground t seconds after it is thrown is given by d= -16t^2-4t+412. How long after the rock is thrown is it 400 feet from the ground? (answer should be in decimal form)
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Question 553698: A cargo plane heading east at 240 kph leaves Honolulu airport at 9:30 AM. A passenger plane leaving the same airport at 12:00 noon flies in the same direction. How fast must the passenger plane fly to catch up with the cargo plane by 3:00 PM. How far from the airport will they be?
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Question 553700: Two minibikes simultaneously left at the same time from certain country club and headed in opposite directions. At the end of an hour and 40 minutes they were 100 km apart. If one of the bikes traveled 5 kph faster that the other, find the speed of each bike?
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Question 553716: hi i need help in solvinf this worded question which has confused me in what i should do. I need help on the following question:
a car travels x km at 50 km/h and y km at 60 km/h. The total time taken is 5 hours. if the average speed for the journey is 56km/h, what are x and y?
i have already found the total distance of the journey which is 280km. how do i find x and y. thanks
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Question 553773: I walked 46 minutes on the treadmill. I walked 32 minutes at 2.7 km speed and 14 minutes at 3.0 km speed. How far did I walk? My steps were about 12" per step.
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Question 553798: If its 3:23pm , What time will it be in one hour and 45 minutes ?
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Question 553858: Bob finished a 1/2-mile hike. One mile equals 5,280 feet. What is the approximate distance that he walked?
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Question 553934: Joe drove at the speed of 45 miles per hour for a certain distance. He then drove at the speed of 55 miles per hour for the same distance. What is the average speed for the whole trip?

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Question 553938: melissa drives 238 miles in 5 hours. what is her average rate of speed?
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Question 553941: A military tanker left Stapleton Airport at 2:30 pm flying south at 575 mph. An hour and a half later, a bomber left the airport on the same course flying at 800 mph. At what time will the two planes meet for midair refueling?
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Question 554011: The difference between a number consisting of two digits and the number formed by reversing the digits is 45. The sum of three times the tens digit and five times the units is 47. Find the number
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Question 554006: the earth rotates its axis about 25,000 miles in 24 hours. express this rate in miles per hour. (round to the nearest hundred).
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Question 554135: If I am driving at 65 miles per hour how many kilometers per hour would I be driving. I was able to find how many yards are in a mile and how many yards are in a kilometer. But I don't know how to use this information determine miles and kilometers.
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Question 554257: For every 3 times jake can run around the block myra can bike five times. If they start together, after how many times around the block will they meet at the starting point?
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Question 554171: Going at 37miles a hr. how far will i get in 8sec. 10sec. 15sec. and 25sec.
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Question 554256: If speed is 8 knots, what distance in nautical miles is traveled?
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Question 554426: how long does it take to walk 3/5 miles
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Question 554455: for one hour buss pass 62 km how much is the speed ?
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Question 554513: car gets 22 miles per gallon
how far do i get using 13 gallons
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Question 554512: The distance of a body falls from rest varies directly as the square of the time. If a body falls 60 m. in 2.5 secs., how far will it fall in 60 seconds?
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Question 554530: A car travels up a hill at a constant speed of 30mi/hr and returns down the hill at a speed of 60 mi/hr. the road to the top of the hill is 15 miles. Calculate the total time for th whole trip.
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Question 554522: Penny's bicycle trip from Colorado Springs to Pikes Peak took 1.5 hours longer than the return trip to Colorado Springs. If she averaged 6 mph on the way to Pikes Peak and 15 mph for the return trip, then how long (in hours) was the ride from Colorado Springs to Pikes Peak?
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Question 554507: if 2 people run 8 miles north and then 5 miles west, what is the shortest distance, to the nearest tenth of a mile, they must travel to return to their start point?
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Question 554572: Suppose your friend can row 10 mph downstream and 6mph upstream. What is the rate of the current?
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Question 554575: if your traveling 25 mph for an hr how many km have you traveled
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Question 554707: A speed boat can travel at a rate of 40 mph. At this rate, what is the distance that the speedboat that the speedboat will travel in 6 minutes
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Question 554823: a car traveling 62 miles per hour is moving at a speed of about how many kilometers per hour

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Question 554849: what is the velocity of the airplane traveling(northeast) at 250mph?
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Question 554846: What is the velocity of the car if it travels in this direction(east) and covers 90 miles in 2 hours?
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Question 554846: What is the velocity of the car if it travels in this direction(east) and covers 90 miles in 2 hours?
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Question 554840: what is the velocity of the airplane traveling west at 500mph?
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Question 554859: Hello,
I am in Algebra and I really need your help.
This is my question:
Traveling downstream a certain boat went 11 mph. Traveling upstream it only went 1 mph. Find the current and the speed of the boat if there were no current.
The work I tried to do: 11+1= 12mph *60=720
I don't know what i was doing. If you can, please show the work and maybe explain it to me.
Thank you for your time and dedication to help me.
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Question 554832: What is the velocity of the boat traveling 20mph in an upward direction(north)? How do you calculate this?
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Question 554826: two boats leave the same port at the same time, the first boat heads due north at 15 knots and the other due west at 12 knots, after 2 hours, how fast is the distance between the boats increasing?
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Question 554935: how far will a freight train travel in 3 hours at an average speed of 48 miles per hour
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Question 554965: Joe and Janna leave home at the same time, traveling in opposite directions. Joe drives 45 mph and Janna drives 40 mph. In how many hours will they be 510 miles apart?
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Question 555013: two person walks opposite direction at two miles apart...one person walks 2x as fast as the other...at what point they will meet?

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Question 555001: A plane makes the trip from Acton to Banville at 800 km/h. The return, at 1000 km/h, takes 1/2 hour less than the initial flight. Find the distance between the towns.
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