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Question 556828: It takes a train 12 minutes to go 1 mile. How fast is the train travelling?
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Question 556832: A bicycle leaves town at 16 mph at 8 AM. A car leaves at 11 AM traveling the same direction at 45 mph. How many minutes after 11 AM is it when the car overtakes the bicycle?
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Question 556825: It takes James and Bret 15 minutes to travel 5 miles upstream against the current. The return trip downstream with the current takes 10 minutes. The speed of the current remained constant.
I need help with finding their speed for upstream and downstream and then finding the boat and current speeds...
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Question 556861: if you hike at an average speed of 2.8 miles per hour, how long will it take you to hike a trail that is 7 miles long?
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Question 556783: An airplane can fly with the wind a distance of 600 miles in 5 hours. However, the return trip against the wind takes 6 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind
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Question 556925: how fast are you going if you travel 6 miles in 20 minutes
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Question 556941: how many minutes will it take to drive 5 miles
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Question 556963: a student is going to school. she makes it to school with an average speed of 35 miles per hour. the drive home is the exact same distance, but the average speed is 40 miles per hour. what is the average speed of the round trip?
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Question 557211: Todd decide to take a road trip to Edmonton, which is 600 miles away from where he lives. If Todd drove 100 miles in 3 hours, how long would it take to drive the remaining distance?
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Question 557203: Tom and Jeri are playing with two remote control cars on a straight track. Tom's car goes 2 feet in one second. Jeri's car travels 8 feet every 3 seconds. Tom and Jeri start their cars at the same time on opposite ends of the track towards each other. If the track is 70 feet long, how many seconds will it take for the cars to collide?
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Question 557313: On a train, it took 3 hours to travel a distance of 52 1/2 miles. That was the average speed of the train?
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Question 557313: On a train, it took 3 hours to travel a distance of 52 1/2 miles. That was the average speed of the train?
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Question 557315: A train travels east at an average speed of 30 m/s. How far does the train travel in 6 seconds?
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Question 557241: Tina hiked 15 km up a mountain trail. Her return trip along the same trail took 1/2 hour less, because she increased her speed by 1 km/hr. How long did it take her to climb up and down the trail?
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Question 557429: Harry takes 2 hours less to travel 50km than Cara takes to travel 35km. Cara travels at a speed that is 5km/hr slower that that of Harry. Find the time taken by Harry and Cara to complete their respective journeys and the speed at which they travelled.
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Question 557452: Clark has a boat that can travel at 15kph in still water. It can go 140km with the current at the same time it takes to travel 35km against the current.
what is the speed of the river??
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Question 557375: A car traveled at 50km/hr for 4 hours and at 60km/hr for 3 1/2hours. What was the average speed for the whole journey?
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Question 557591: Someone travels 580 miles in 10 hours. How many miles did they drive in an hour?
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Question 557673: Pete and his family take a trip out into the country by car. On the way out he travels at 40 MPH . When they hit snow he turned around and started back traveling at 30 MPH. If the entire trip took 7 hours, how far out into the country did they go?
I tried 40x + 30x = 7(60)
But that is not the correct answer.
if you could help me that would be great
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Question 557609: If the distance around a track is 1/6 of a mile and someone jogs around it 16 times then how far did they jog and how do you figure that problem out.
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Question 557648: An airplane travels 1800 km in 6 h flying with the wind. It travels only two thirds as far in the same time against the wind. Find the speed of the wind.
Thank you~
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Question 557584: a man commutes to work a distance of 30 miles and teturns on the same route at the end of the day. His average rate on the return trip is 15 miles per hour faster than his average rate on the outgoing trip. write the total time, T, in hours, devoted to his outgoing an return trips as a function of his rate on the outgoing trip, x. The find a interpret T(25). I already have 30/x + 30/x+15
I am having a problem with the interpret
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Question 557790: Driving my car at 100km/hr, I decide to accccelerate-20 km/hr/hr for 30 minutes.what is my final velocity?(convert time to hours
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Question 557824: start from a place on the earth surface, you travel south for 100 miles then east for 100 miles then to north for the same distance . now where did u start?
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Question 557852: Ryan left the science museum and drove south. Gabriella left three hours later drving 42 km/h faster in an effort to catch up to him. After two hours Gabriella finally caught up. Find Ryan's average speed.
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Question 557952: if you travel at 60mph, you are going one mile per minute, if you are traveling 67mph how many miles per minute?
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Question 557423: The first two sections of a bicycle race are x and y meters long. Annie cycles the first part of the race at 6m/s and the second part at 12m/s. Barry cycles the same sections at 10m/s and 6m/s. It takes Annie half a minute to cycle these two sections, whereas it takes Barry 46 seconds to cover the same distance.
How long are these two sections of the race?
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Question 557992: Can you please show me the steps to do this problem?
A freight train traveled to the repair yards and back. IT took one hour less time to get there than it did to get back. The average speed on the trip there was 54 mph. The average speed on the way back was 45 mph. How many hours did the trip there take?
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Question 558016: Pat biked 1 mile in 3 minutes with the wind at her back, and then she returned in 4 minutes riding against the wind. What was the speed of wind?
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Question 558015: An airplane travels 1800km in 6 hours flying with the wind. It travels only two thirds as far in the same time against the wind. Find the speed of the wind.�
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Question 558090: A train travels north at 100 kilometers per hour and travels for 160mins. Then it turns east and travels 2000 meters per minute for 2 hours. How far has the train traveled?
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Question 557975: If you leave Thailand at 1pm and it takes 14 hours to reach your destination which is nevada what time would you arrive?
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Question 558130: A passenger plane flew to moscow and back. The trip there took five hours and the trip back took nine hours. It averaged 144 km/h faster on the trip there than on the return trip. Find the passenger plane's average speed on the outbound trip.
O.k so I did have a go at it Trying to use a system of equations using the substitution method to eliminate one unknown but it didn't work. I will try and explain what I was playing around with:
D1 = Distance there D2 = Distance back ( but not sure if I needed this as it is same Distance )
Average Speed = S
D1/5 + D2/9 = S
D1/5 = D2/9+144 ( I tried substituting this in )
D2/9+144 + D2/9 = S ( then I combined the like terms )
D2/18+144 = s ( but this is where I realized I had failed as I still had 2 variables.
Please help me someone I am so bad at word problems and I would love to be confident at them.
P.S I wasn't sure about which was the outbound trip, I guessed it meant the trip back.

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Question 558146: Stanley and Phillys leave the office and travel in opposite directions. Stanley drives 15 mph slower than Phyllis, and after 2 hr they are 146 mi apart. How fast was each person driving?
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Question 558214: how fast do i have to go if i need to bike 95 miles in 15 hours?
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Question 558168: a bullet train can travel very fast if a bullet train can go 150 miles in 90 minutes, what is the speed of the train in miles per hour
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Question 558230: The fan cost index tracks the average costs for attending sporting events, including tickets, drinks, food, parking, programs, and souvenirs. According to the FCI, a family of four would spend a total of $592.30 to attend two Major League Baseball (MLB) games and one National Basketball Association (NBA) game. The family would spend $691.31 to attend one MLB and two NBA games. Write and Solve a system of equations to find the family's costs for each kind of games according to the FCI.
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Question 558246: Thisis my final problem of the night. hope this problem is beneficial as the others problems given,
This is it: Two truckers leave from the same point driving in opposite directions the first trucker driving at 59 mph and the second at 56mph. The first trucker has a one hour head start. How long will they be able to talk on their car phone if the phone has a 290 mile range.
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Question 558432: if it takes 28 minutes to walk to someone's house, how long will it take if you ride a bike?

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Question 558503: johnny walked from home to school at rate of 3mph. he came back home at rate of 5mph. total trip took him 1 hour. how many miles did he walk?
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Question 558407: A train leaves Kansas City for Dallas and it travels at an average speed of 60 miles/hour. Another train leaves in the opposite direction and travels at an average speed of 80 miles/hour. At what point [with respect to either of the stations] would they meet?
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Question 558547: If you travel 2.5 miles in 45 seconds how fast are you going?
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