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Question 618103: One airplane travels due north at 300 km/h while another travels due south at 300 km/h. Are their speeds the same? Are their velocities the same?
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Question 618281: How much dirt is there in a hole 5 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 2 meters deep?

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Question 618259: a boat traveled 88 miles downstream and back. the trip downstream took 4 hours. the trip back took 44 hours. what is the speed of the boat in still water? what is the speed of the current?
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Question 618348: While driving 90km/h how far can you travel in 3.5 hrs ?
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Question 618308: 2. A train travels at an average speed of 20 mph through urban areas, 50 mph
through suburban areas, and 75 mph through rural areas. If a trip consists of
traveling half an hour through urban areas, 3-1/2 hours through suburban areas,
and 3 hours through rural areas, what is the train�s average speed for the entire
trip?
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Question 618416: Average speed of Car 1 = 55 mph.
Average speed of Car 2 = 70 mph.
Time elapsed between start of Car 1 and start of Car 2 = 4 minutes.
How long before Car 2 overtakes Car 1? hour.
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Question 618426: How long does it take to walk to school if you walk at an average speed o 3 m/s and live 900 metres away?
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Question 618314: A person leaves home a 8:00 am and drives to a destination at a rate of 40 miles per hour. The person returns at a rate of 25 miles per hour and arrives at 2:30 pm. How far was the destination?
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Question 618437: Find the average speed of a motor boat which takes 350 seconds to cover a 10 000 m course ?

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Question 618437: Find the average speed of a motor boat which takes 350 seconds to cover a 10 000 m course ?

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Question 618453: A runner takes 35 seconds to run round 250 metres of a track. What is his avetage speed?
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Question 618505: A tourist can bicycle 33 miles in the same time as he can walk 12 miles. If he can ride 7 mph faster than he can walk, how much time should he allow to walk a 30-mile trail?
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Question 618593: Brad drives 450km at 80km/hr. He takes 3-15 minutes breaks. How much time does his trip take in hours?
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Question 618605: Two cars approach each other on a two lane road. The left car is travelling at 150 km/h while the one on the right is travelling at 100 km/h. If they are initially 12 km apart, how long will it take for them to pass one another and where will they pass relative to the left cars starting position?
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Question 618626: I drove 150 miles for work in one week, the next week I only drove approximately 20% less than the previous week. What is the amount of miles i drove the second week?
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Question 618638: If a train can travel 405 miles in 4.5 hours, how far can it travel in 10 minutes?
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Question 618660: a train travelling at 60 mph takes 6 sec to enter a tunnel and a further 30 sec to pass completely through the tunnel. what is the length of the train and what is the length of the tunnel.

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Question 618710: 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 618727: An airplane flies 72 miles with a 30-mph tailwind and then flies back into the 30-mph wind. If the time for the round trip was 1 hour, find the speed of the airplane in calm air.
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Question 618731: If it took a train 23 min to travel 16 miles how fast was the train traveling?
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Question 618731: If it took a train 23 min to travel 16 miles how fast was the train traveling?
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Question 618742: If it took a train 23 min to travel 15 miles, what was the average speed of the train?
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Question 618715: two cars are headed directly toward each other at rates of 40 mph and 60 mph. How many miles apart are they 2 min before impact
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Question 618566: A plane can fly 480 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 210 miles. If the car travels 90 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane.
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Question 618825: Christ is on a train. He sees a truck that is going parallel road in the opposite direction and passes his window in 6 sec. since his first sight. Later on, he sees the train passing through a bridge of 180ft in 12 secs. If the length of the truck is 168ft, what is the speed of the truck in mph?
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Question 618835: Kelly and Carmen live in Yorktown and Hornsville respectively. The distance between two town is 90 miles. They leave their homes simultaneously for each other houses. Kelly is walking 2mph faster than Carmen . They meet one another 5 hours later. Find the speed for each of these two people.
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Question 618839: 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 618851: a car leaves LA traveling north at 59 km/ph. another car leaves LA an hour later on the same road traveling 84 km/ph. how far from LA will the second car overtake the first car?
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Question 618866: two boats leave a marina. one travels east. and the other travels south after 30 min the second boat has traveled one mile farther then the first boat and the distance between the boats is five miles. find the distance each has traveled

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Question 618885: Khang and Heator live 88 miles apart in southeastern Missouri. They decide to bicycle towards each other and meet somewhere in between. Hector�s rate of speed is 60% of Khang�s. They start out at the same time and meet 5 hours later. Find Hector�s rate of speed.
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Question 618836: Derick and Peter walk from point Y and Z, respectively walks toward each other at the same in constant speed. They meet the first time at a point that is eight miles away from Point Y. They kept going without stop. As soon as one reach Y or Z, one returns in the same route. They meet the second time at a point five miles away from point Z. What is the distance between the two points that they met one another?
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Question 618914: An automobile traveled 1805 miles in 38 hours. What was the average rate of travel per hour?
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Question 618943: two cars start at the same time from 2 hours 945km. apart and meet in 7 hours. one car travels 5kph faster than the other.what is the rate of the faster car?
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Question 618945: How much 80% of alcohol added solution must be added 7 liters of 60% alcohol to make sure a mixture of 73%?
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Question 618974: if a car travels from a to b at 75mph and from b to a at 50mph what is the avrage speed of the car
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Question 618992: A frog is sitting on a stump 6 feet above the ground. It hops off the stump and lands on the ground 4 feet away. During its leap, its height "h" is given by the equation h=-.5+.5x+6 where "x" is the distance in feet from the base of the stump, and "h" is height in feet. How far was the frog from the base of the stump when it was 2.75 feet above the ground?
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Question 618828: Two trains one is Amtrak and the other Mega city Express are running in opposite direction in two parallel rail tracks. The speed of Amtrak is 36mph while the speed of Mega city Express in 54 mph. A passenger on Amtrak spots that Megacity train passes her window completely in 16 seconds. How long is Mega city Express.
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Question 619005: How long would it take a cruise ship traveling at a speed of 50 km/h to travel from 6093 km?
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Question 619011: with the wind a jet takes 3hours to fly 1890 miles.against the wind, itt akes 4 hours for the same trip. find the winds speed and the planes speed
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Question 619053: two ships leave port at the same time. Ship A goes north at 60 mph. Ship B goes southeast at 75 mph. after 30 minutes Ship B goes a straight course to ship A. how far will it need to travel
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Question 619067: Calculate the net force. One car moving west hits another car moving east. The westbound cars hits with a force of 200N. The eastbound car hits with a force of 300N.
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Question 618999: a cyclist covers half as much as distance as a tanga driver, and the tanga driver half as much again as a man on foot. if man can walk distance of 3 km in one hour how much will cyclist to cover a distance of 27 km
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Question 619027: A tugboat goes 100 miles upstream in 10 hours. The return trip takes 5 hours. Find the speed of the tugboat without a current and the speed of the current.
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Question 619155: how many seconds will it take to go .5 mile at a speed of 11 mph?
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