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Question 593932: If someone is running at 4.7 mph, how long will it take said person to travel 3.1 miles?
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Question 594277: If Angela runs at a steady pace of mph for 3 hours and 20 minutes, how far will she run?
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Question 594447: If you are going 80 kilometres per hour how fast are you going in miles per hour?
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Question 594538: traveled 62 miles in 4 hours. some time was biking @ 20mph. the other time spent running @ 8 mph. What is the distance traveled biking? What is the distance traveled biking in the 4 hours if traveled 62 miles

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Question 594555: some bank robbers rob a bank in madison and flee for S.Beloit at 90 miles an hour (1.5 miles/min) they get a 10 mile head start over the police chasing them at 120 miles an hour down the same highway. when and where will the police catch them?
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Question 594496: what distance would mario travel if he drove 4 3/4 hours at 70 miles per hour?
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Question 594561: Two trains are traveling toward eachother on adjacent tracks. ONe of the trains is 230 ft long and is moving at a speed of 50 m/h. The other train is 210 ft long and is moving at a rate of 60 m/h. Find the time interval between the moment the trains first meet until they completely pass each other. (Remember 1 mile= 5280feet}
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Question 594557: A small plane was scheduled to fly from Atlanta to
Washington D.C. The plane flies at a constant speed of 150 miles per hour. However, the flight was against a strong head wind of 10 miles per hour. The threat of mechanical failure forced the plane to turn back and it returned to Atlanta with a tail wind of 10 miles per hour, land 1.5 hours after it had taken off.
a. How far had the plane traveled before turning back?
b. What was the planes average speed?
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Question 594558: Tommy is driving a go-cart at 17 mph. How many feet per second is that?
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Question 594640: A car travels 512 miles on 10 2/3 gallons of gas. how many miles would you expect to travel on one gallon of gas? Can you please explain how to solve this and the answer???
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Question 594658: sue traveled 3.5 hrs to one location and 2 hrs and 10 minutes to another.. the route that she took, the trip was 720miles.. what was her average speed???
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Question 594785: Explain how to find whether 10 miles per hour is faster than 15 feet per second.

so far i have that there is 52800 feet in 10 miles
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Question 594778: If a fire truck travels at 40 mph, how long will it take to get 8 miles away?
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Question 594933: A motorboat travels 114 miles in 2 hours going upstream. It travels 170 miles going downstream in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 595060: a car travels at 15 m/s for 3.0 hours. how far did the car travel?

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Question 595182: at 3:00pm, andy began walking directly south from point A at a rate of 4mi/hr. at the same time, bil started walking directly west from point B to point A, at a rate of 5mi/hr.
the distance between A and B is 9 miles. Assume that both of them stop walking when reaches point A
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Question 595184: if you go 620 miles in 8 2/3 hours how many hours does it take to drive 90 miles
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Question 595261: how long to catch up with ship travelling 1000 mph that is 4320 miles away if my speed is 10000 mph
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Question 595285: If your air speed is 90 MPH and you are going against a wind speed of 100 MPH, what is your ground speed?
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Question 595247: Working with your cousin, you can refinish a table in 6 hours. Working
alone, your cousin can complete the job in 9 hours. How long would
it take you to refinish the table?
alone?
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Question 595287: If your air speed is 90 MPH and you have a tail wind of 100 MPH, what is your ground speed?
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Question 595381: If an elk covers 100 meters in 5 seconds, at what speed is the elk running?
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Question 595413: i live 10 miles from work at a speed of 40 miles per hour what time should i leave home to be at work by 8:15

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Question 595461: Leanne walks at an average speed of 3 1/3 miles per hour. How far does she walk in 2 hour, 15 minutes

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Question 595510: A car passes a landmark on a highway traveling at a constant rate of kilometers per hour. An hour later, a second car passes the same landmark traveling in the same direction at kilometers per hour. How much time after the second car passes the landmark will it overtake the first car?
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Question 595771: Hannah can clear a lot in 5.5 hours. Damon can do the same job in 7.5 hours. How long will it take for them to clear the lot if they work together?

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Question 595774: If a car traveling at 60km per hour and it need to travel 180kms, then how many hours will the trip take?
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Question 595789: a twin-engine airplane has to travel 896 miles from city a to city b. It takes 4 hours to get there with the wind. against the wind it takes 7 hours. what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 595809: If I were traveling 80 mph, how far would I get in an hour?
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Question 595830: Between January 10, 1992, and November 16, 1992, some of the toys were carried approximately 3,220 km from the cargo-spill site to the coast of Alaska. Calculate the average distance traveled by these toys per day. (Hint: The year 1992 was a leap year.)

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Question 595888: A car is traveling at a constant velocity of 100 km/hr. What is the distance it will travel in one minute?
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Question 595868: A train travels half the distance from 30 km/hr and the remaining half with 60km/hr. What is it's average speed ?

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Question 595940: below is the question I am working on. WIll you please help me by doing a problem like it so I can get the hang of how to work. Thanks
Two cars leave Salt Lake City traveling in opposite directions. One car travels at a speed of 80 km/h and the other at 96 km/h. In how many hours will they be 528 km apart?

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Question 595956: Please help solve this problem: On my way to the cabin I drove at the rate of
55 mph. Coming home in a heavy rain, I only average 35 mph. It took me 2 hours less to get to the cabin than to get home. How many miles is it to the cabin?
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Question 596019: Rene is going to the lake to visit some friends. If the lake is 60 miles away, and Rene is driving at 40 miles per hour the entire time, how long will it take her to get to the lake?
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Question 596021: How many hours would it take a truck doing 55 mph to go 911 miles?
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Question 596009: A train 1000 metres long travels through a 3000 metre tunnel. Thirty seconds
pass from the time the last car has just completely entered the tunnel until the
time when the front of the engine emerges from the other end.
Determine the speed of the train, in kilometres per hour.
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Question 596046: Kent drives his Mazda 270 miles in the same time Dave drives his Honda 250 miles. If Kent averages 4 miles per hour faster than Dave, find their speeds.
Thank you, Trudy
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Question 596071: Please help!! During a race, a runner runs at a speed of 6 m/s. 2 seconds later, she is running at a speed of 10 m/s. What is the runner�s acceleration? Show your work.

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Question 596077: Please help solve this problem!!
As 390 g of hot milk cools in a mug, it transfers 30,000 J of heat to the environment. What is the temperature change of the milk? The specific heat of milk is 3.9 J/g��C. Show your work.

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Question 596098: two travel from same point, one reaches point a in 7 minutes other in 9 minutes. when will they meet at the same point at the same time?
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Question 596070: As 390 g of hot milk cools in a mug, it transfers 30,000 J of heat to the environment. What is the temperature change of the milk? The specific heat of milk is 3.9 J/g��C. Show your work.
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Question 596073: In need of help!!
As 390 g of hot milk cools in a mug, it transfers 30,000 J of heat to the environment. What is the temperature change of the milk? The specific heat of milk is 3.9 J/g��C. Show your work.

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