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Question 601637: I can not come up with how to do the following, could you please please help me?
On the first part of a 317 mile trip a salesperson averaged 58 mph. The salesperson averaged only 52 mph on the last part of the trip. The total time of the trip was 5hrs 45 min. Find the amount of time at each of the 2 speeds?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, for some reason I can not even figure how to set the problem up. Thanks in advance.
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Question 601717: If a train leaves new york at 35mph and another train leaves millwaukee st 30mph where will they meet
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Question 601735: Jack is driving at a speed that is 5 mph faster than Jill is driving. Jack drives 432 miles in the same amount of time that Jill drives 402 miles. How fast are Jack and Jill driving?
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Question 601852: How fast must a softball travel to reach 35 feet in 1.20 seconds?
This formula will greatly help me to know how fast my pitchers must pitch the ball so my catchers can make the throws to catch runners stealing second base.
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Question 601878: If a roller coaster travels at an average speed of 118 kilometers per hour and travels a distance of 950 meters, how long does it take for the roller coaster to complete the ride? Please tell me how you did the problem too along with the answer!
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Question 601945: My car get 30mpg and my husbands get 25mpg, if we both traveled 200 miles per week and the price of gas is $4.00 a gallon, what is the difference in savings
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Question 601944: A car travels 273 miles in 5 hours and 15 minutes. How many miles does it travel per hour?
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Question 601956: Gina drives her new car at 60 miles per hour for 3 hours and then at 50 miles per hour for 2 hours. Find her average speed for the 5 hours
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Question 602018: How long does it take a baseball pitched at 110 m.p.h. to get to home plate from the pitching mound? The distance from home plate to the pitching mound is 66'6".
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Question 602068: Hello. I could really use some help on this word problem. If I could set up the equation I could solve it but I am having trouble. Please help.
Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 80 mph and train B is traveling at 90 mph. Train A passes a station at 9:20 P.M. If train B passes the same station at 9:32 P.M., what time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 602153: Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel
track. Train A is traveling at 80 miles per hour and train B is
traveling at 100 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 3:20 am.
If train B passes the same station at 3:35 am ., at what time will
train B catch up to train A?
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Question 602290: If a man is jogging at 8mph and a woman is walking at 6mph with a one hour headstart, how long wil it take for the jogger to catch up to the walker?
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Question 602361: A car travelled 425 miles and used 17 gallons of gasoline. At this rate, how many miles were driven per gallon?
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Question 602439: Jackie drove 7 hours at an average rate of 60 miles an hour. How far did she travel?
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Question 602460: Two cars leave a city at the same time and travel along straight highways that differ in direction by 80�. One car averages 60 miles per hour and the other averages 50 miles per hour. How far apart will the cars be after 30 minutes? Round to the nearest tenth of a mile.
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Question 602452: Rohan travels 600 km from his home partly by train and partly by car. He takes eight hours if he travels 120 km by train and rest by car. he takes 20 minutes more if he travels 200 km by train and rest by car. find the speed of train and car
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Question 602265: On route to the school camp, the bus travelled at 80km/h for a certain period of time t and at 100km/h for twice this period of time. If the total distance covered was 140km, for how long did the bus travel at each speed?
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Question 602266: Airplane A travels North at 12 mph and Airplane B travels West at 9 mph. How far away will the planes be from each other 20 minutes after they left the same airport?
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Question 602759: Together, Stanley and Elsie can mow a lawn in 3 hours. It takes elsie 5 hours to mow the lawn alone. How long would it take Stanley working by himself?
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Question 602764: Two planes are flying around the world. The first plane is flying at 300 mph and is 350 miles ahead of the second plane. The second plane is flying at 400 mph. How long will it take for the second plane to catch the first plane.
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Question 602809: . For the first five hours of a flight, a plane is assisted by a 100 mile per hour wind. For the next three hours, it is hindered by a 100 mile per hour wind. If the total distance traveled is 3400 miles, how fast is the plane in windless conditions? Please show me the steps.
A. 500 mph B. 400 mph C. 300 mph D. 200 mph
E.None
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Question 602813: How long will it take to drive 100 km at a speed of 75 km an hour? Is it: 65 minutes, 75 minutes, 100 minutes, 80 minutes? How do I work this out?
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Question 602821: A man travels for 11 hours at the rate of 40 kph. His return trip took him 9 hours. What is his average speed for the entire trip?
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Question 602789: A racing team can paddle their canoe 11 miles downstream in the same time it takes to paddle 3 miles upstream in a 2 mile per hour current. How fast can they paddle in still water?
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Question 602800: what is the speed of a car in km/hr if it travels 16 km in a minutes
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Question 602880: Soren had a 36 mile head start. If Eric caught him in 3 hrs, how fast was Eric traveling if his speed was 2x Sorens?
I know D=RT. I assume they both went the same distance because Eric caught up. I made the equation 2 different ways. The first one was like this:
RT=RT
(Sorens RT)=(Erics RT) I came up with 1/2, and I know this is not right.
I then tried (Sorens RT)=(Erics RT)+36, and I get a -12. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Can you please help me?
Thanks,
Sheila
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Question 602915: To get to work, you drive for 20 minutes at 30 mph, and walk 10 more minutes at 3 mph. What was your average speed?

a) 16.5 mph
b) 20 mph
c) 21 mph
d) 23 mph

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Question 602976: The train from Metropolis A to Metropolis B takes 4 hours and 15 minutes. If the rail distance between Metropolis A and Metropolis B is 250 miles, how fast must the train average?
58.8
52.8
55.8
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Question 603061: Juan rode his bicycle 2 1/2 miles in 1/2 hour. how many miles per hour did he ride on average?
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Question 603061: Juan rode his bicycle 2 1/2 miles in 1/2 hour. how many miles per hour did he ride on average?
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Question 603093: Hi Dear Tutor I need your help to explain to me how we put this word problem into a equation. I tried here but i dont think i m getting the right answer, plus my book does not have a similiar example. You dont have to give me the answer but if you could show me how to make the equation with this information.
Thank You very much,
Monick

1)A plane traveled 630 miles to Tokyo and back. The trip there was with the wind.It took 7 hours. The trip back was into the wind. The trip back took 21 hours. What is the speed of a plane in still air? what is the speed of the wind?
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Question 603102: An object is moving at a speed of (3+2^(1/2)) ft/s. How long will it take the object to travel 20 ft?
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Question 603229: On a plane going 500 mph from LA how many hours would it take to get to Ulaanbaatar,Mongolia?
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Question 603302: The answer to a question is 55km/h. Write a question =
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Question 603330: Please may you help he answer this question: Gill leaves lillie by the train at 09:00. The train travels the first 27km at 96 km/h. It then stops at lens for 3 minutes before travelling the final 29 km to lillers at 96 km/h at what time does gill arrive at lillers?
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Question 603368: Joe can do a job twice as fast as Sam. Together they can do the job in 20 minutes. How long does it take Joe working alone to do the job?
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Question 603473: A canoe covers a distance of 40 miles downstream in 6 hours. Returning upstream, it takes the canoe three times as long to cover 3/5 the distance. Find the rate of the current and the rate of the canoe in still water.
Note: The answer alone is insufficient. You must not only show your work (define your variables and write two equations, solving the system) but also explain your process in order to receive full credit for you answer.
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Question 603530: An airplane leaves New York to fly to Los Angeles. it travels 3,850 km in 5.5 hours. What is the average speed of the airplane
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Question 603522: Julio rides his bike for 6 mi and gets a flat tire. Then he has to walk with the bike for another mile. His speed walking is 6 mph less than his speed riding the bike. If the total time is 1hr, find his speed riding the bike and his speed walking?
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