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Question 576149: Without any wind an airplane flies at 200 miles per hour. It travels 800 miles into the wind and then returns with the wind in a total time of 8 hours and 20 minutes. Find the average speed of the wind?
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Question 576168: an excursion boat takes 1.5 times as long to go 360 miles up a river than to return. If the boat cruises at 15 miles per hour in still water, what is the rate of the current?
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Question 576068: A motorboat heads upstream on a river that has a current of 3 miles per hour. The trip upstream takes 5 hours, and the return trip takes 2.5 hours. What is th speed of the motorboat? (Assume that the motorboat maintains a constant speed relative to the water.)
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Question 576041: a train leaves Philadelphia for Atlanta at 12 noon, traveling 70 mph. another train leaves Atlanta for Philadelphia at 2pm traveling 60 mph. The distance from Philadelphia to Atlanta is 400 miles. Where d the trains meet? When do they meet?
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Question 576320: A plane can fly 260 miles downwind in the same amount of time as it can travel 170 miles upwind. Find the velocity of the wind if the plane can fly 215 mph in still air.
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Question 576380: the distance from Chicago to Los Angeles is about 2,190 miles. About how many hours will it take to drive from Chicago to Los Angeles at an average speed of 55 miles per hour?
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Question 576213: Mrs. Sanchez ran 3/5 of a mile. Mrs. Fritz ran 2/3 as far as Mrs. Sanchez. How far did Mrs. Fritz run? How much farther than Mrs. Fritz did Mrs. Sanchez run? Show work.
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Question 576301: Two airplanes depart simultaneously from an airport. One flies due south; the other flies due
east at a rate 30 mph faster than that of the first airplane. After 3 hours, radar indicates that
the airplanes are 450 miles apart. What is the ground speed of each airplane
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Question 576648: If a stone is tossed from the top of a 290 meter building, the height of the stone as a function of time is given by h(t) = -9.8t^2 � 10t + 290, where t is in seconds, and height is in meters. After how many seconds will the stone hit the ground? Round to the nearest hundredth�s place; include units in your answer
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Question 576189: Two gasoline distributors, A and B, are 367 km apart on a highway.A charges $1.80/L and B charges $1.68/L. Each charges 0.16�/L per kilometre for delivery. Where on Interstate 80 is the cost to the customer the same?
Sir,
I didn't get what is meant by "Interstate 80 is the cost to the customer the same".Even then I tried to solve as follows.
(1.80*0.16)*x=80
(1.68*0.16)*y=80
giving x=277.77 and y=297
I think I have messed it up and cant find the solution.It will be kind of you if you you can help me out in this regards.

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Question 576856: Marcella traveled for 45 minutes at an average rate of 40 miles per hour. How far did Marcella travel?
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Question 577221: Bob is riding his bicycle at a speed of 5 miles per hour. After 1 hour, how far will he have traveled?
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Question 577419: A car travels 180km in 2 1/4 hrs. How far did it travel in the first 2 hrs?

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Question 577320: If a driver was able to travel 600 miles in 3 hours, what was his average speed?
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Question 577439: A man calculated that if his speed had been increased by 4km/h he would have completed his 48km journey 1 hour sooner.determine his speed.
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Question 577446: Suppose that a car rental agency gave you the following choices.
Option A $30 per day plus 40� per mile
Option B flat $50 per day
(a) Write equations for cost per day c for options A and B. (Use m for distance in miles.)
c = $
. (option A)
c) Estimate the mileage for which both rates are the same.

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Question 577478: I was issued a speed camera ticket and believe that it is inaccurate.
They issued two photos of my vehicle along with the ticket. The second photo was timestamped 0.200 seconds after the first. The vehicle traveled 9 feet from first photo to the next. There are 5280 feet in a mile. How fast was the vehicle traveling?
Thanks.

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Question 577532: A man is rowing a boat upstream. As he passes under a bridge, a bottle falls out. 20 min later the rower realizes this and rows back to pick it up. He catches up with the bottle 1 mile downstream from the bridge. How fast is the current?
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Question 577588: How many mph are you traveling if your moving 8 miles per minute?(old Bob Seger tune)thanks =)
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Question 577654: a plane can travel 1035 miles in the same amount of time that a train can travel 270 miles. the speed of the plane is 50 mph more than three times the speed of the train. what are the speeds of each?
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Question 577747: Two trains leave a city at the same time. One travels North and the other travels South 20mph faster, in 2 hours; the trains are 280 miles apart. Find their rates. (I over slept for my class and I HAVE NO IDEA how to do the assigned homework. This should help me figure the rest of the questions out. Thank you thank you thank you!
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Question 577789: andy's average driving speed for a 4-hour trip was 45 miles per hour. During the first 3 hours he drove 40 miles per hour. What was his average speed for the last hour of his trip?
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Question 576951: Suppose you traveled 84 miles in 1.5 hrs. Moving at the same speed, how many miles would you cover in 3 hrs?
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Question 577792: if your on a plane that went 480 miles... and for the first 240 miles you went 60 and the last 240 you did 50mph what was your average mph for the trip
i took the two mph and dived by 2 to get 55
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Question 577692: 2 cars are going to an opposite direction the first car left first at 2:45pm at 68km/h after 45mins the 2nd car left going towards the opposite direction with the speed of 75km/h at what time will the 2 cars be at an equal distance from the start point and at what distance
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Question 577959: Train a and b are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train a is traveling at 100 mph and train b is traveling at 120 mph. Train a passes a station at 7:25 am, train b passes the same station at 7:40 AM at what time will train b catch up with a.
I CAME UP WITH 8:05 AM
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Question 577981: You travel 720 miles in 8 hours. What is your speed (mph)?
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Question 577981: You travel 720 miles in 8 hours. What is your speed (mph)?
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Question 577986: If you put a 5 gallon of water in the freezer,after turning to ice will the weight change?
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Question 577986: If you put a 5 gallon of water in the freezer,after turning to ice will the weight change?
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Question 577985: A small car and a big truck traveling at same speed 60mph for 20 miles,which vehicle will get to destination first?
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Question 578022:
A plane flies at x miles per hour in still air. Flying with a tailwind, its speed is 485 miles per hour. Against the wind, its air speed is only 445 miles per hour. What is the speed of the wind?
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Question 578026: Elisa walked 1 mile north, 0.5 mile west, and then walked straight back to her starting point. How far did elisa walk
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Question 578026: Elisa walked 1 mile north, 0.5 mile west, and then walked straight back to her starting point. How far did elisa walk
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Question 578080: I hiked 4.7 miles in 1hr 45 minutes. How many miles per hour is that? Thanks.
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Question 578190: How long would it take a bicycle travelling speed at 15 kilometres per hour to travel a distance of 45 kilometres?
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Question 578168: If a school bus driver drives a school bus within a 20 mph school zone at 20 mph how many feet will the bus travel within each second?
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Question 578359: Albert Einstein also showed that the weight (mass) of an object increases when travelling near the speed of light. If a persons weight on earth is Wo, then the same persons weight W in a spaceship travelling at velocity V is
W(V) = Wo divided by the square root of 1-(v/c)squared
A) evaluate W when v=0.6c and Wo= 220
B) interpret your result
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Question 578379: how many hours will it take a car travelling at 70 km/h to travel 280km
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Question 578379: how many hours will it take a car travelling at 70 km/h to travel 280km
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Question 578492: If I walk 945 steps, how far is that?

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Question 578575: Pls. help me with this word problem: The distance from NYC to a midwestern city is 1080 miles, and the time taken by the fastest train is 11 hours longer than the time taken by an airplane. If the train is used for the first third of the journey and the plane for the last two thirds, the time taken for the whole trip is 7 2/3 hours. Find the rate of each.
Thank you for your help, I am just helping my son out with these problems and I am stumped.
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