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Question 625699: Timothy leaves home for Skedunk 400 miles away. After 2 hours, he has to reduce his speed by 20 mph due to rain. If he takes one hour for lunch and gas and reaches Skehdunk 9 hours after he left home, what was his initial speed? write the equations then solve.
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Question 625669: Find an equation of the tangent line to the graph at the given point. 7x^2-6(sq3)xy+13y^2-16=0. (sq3,1)
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Question 625748: A motorboat leaves a harbor and travels at an average speed of 9 mph toward a small island. Two hours later a cabin cruiser leaves the same harbor and travels at an average speed of 18 mph toward the same island. In how many hours after the cabin cruiser leaves the harbor will it be alongside the motorboat?

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Question 625813: A train running at the speed of 45 km/hr took 12 seconds to pass a certain point.What was the length of the train?
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Question 625869: a lion is chasing a zebra. the zebra is 600 meters away from the lion. the zebra is running at 50 m/sec and the lion is running at 75 m/sec when do yo expect the lion to catch up to the zebra?
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Question 625947: katie and her famaliy are driving to a amusement park.The park is 300 miles from there home , They driven 1/3. How far are they from the park?

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Question 625985: how fast do u have to go to travel 85 miles in 11 mins
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Question 626008: a service station operator brought 85 kl of gasoline for $63.750.Thegasoline was sold for $.945 per liter.find the profit on the 85 kl og gasoline
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Question 626063: Linda hiked up a mountain trail and camped overnight at the top. The next day she returned down the same trail. Her average rate traveling uphill was kilometers per hour and her average rate downhill was kilometers per hour. If she spent a total of hours hiking, how long was the trail?
Do not do any rounding.

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Question 626099: how much money would you need if you had to drive 7hours and 20min. and back on a car that gets25miles to the gallon
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Question 626048: If a freight train travels 280 miles at 40 miles per hour, how many hours does it take the train to travel 280 miles?
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Question 626139: This is not a homework question.
I am trying to figure out how many laps I have to walk to equal a mile at the local park. The sign says one lap around equals .42 mile. I was thinking if I walk 2 1/2 laps that would be a mile, is this true?
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Question 626073: A car rental company charges $22.95 per day and 10 cents a mile to rent their cars. If a car was rented for 2 days for a total charge of $60.90, how many miles was it driven?
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Question 626102: The question is......Two jets leave at the same time,one is flying eat, the other west. the speed of the jet that is flying west is 75km/h faster than the speed of the jet flying east. in 3 hr they are 3075km apart. let w represent the speed of the plane travelling west and e represent the speed of plane travelling east. you need to know the speed of each plane. write a system of equation to model this situation
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Question 626208: A man traveled at a speed of 20km/h for 30 minutes. How far did he travel?
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Question 626232: If u have to drive 742 miles at the speed of 60 mph. How long will it take to get here?
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Question 626239: if a plane traveling 300 mph is 350 ahead of a second plane traveling 400 mph, how long will it take for the second plane to catch the first one
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Question 626253: If I drive 70mph for 60 min how many miles would I have gone!
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Question 626317: a car travels 375 miles in the same time that amotorcycle travels 325 miles. if the car's speed is 10miles per hour more than the motorcycle's, what is the speed of the car and the speed of the motorcycle
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Question 626358: Greg is traveling north on a road while peter is traveling south on the same road. they pass by each other at noon, Greg driving at 35 mph and peter driving at 55 mph. at what time will they be 225 mi apart?
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Question 626412: From a car moving a 36 kmhr-1, a ball is thrown at night angle to the motion of the car and with a speed of 6 ms-1. What is the speed of the ball (relative to the Earth) at the beginning of its flight?
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Question 626411: A ship is sailing due east at 15 km/hr. What must be the speed of a second ship heading in the direction 30 east of north. If it is always due north from the first ship.
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Question 626438: A bus traveled at an average rate of 50mph and then reduced the average rate to 40mph for the rest of the trip. If the 220 mile trip took 5 hour, determine how long the bus traveled at each rate.
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Question 626454: An airplane flew 3.5 hours with a 60 mph headwind. The return trip with the same speed took 2.5 hours. Find speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 626424: Resolve a force of 100N into 2 components at right angle of 30 degrees . with the 100N force value for construction and computation.
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Question 626507: One car travels 25 km/h faster than another. While one travels 300 km the other travels 450 km. find their speeds.
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Question 626520: traveling at 80 miles per hour, how long would it take to get from point A to point B. if it takes 320 miles to travel from point A to point B

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Question 626354: In the morning, Maria drove to a business appointment at 60 mph. Her average speed on the return trip in the afternoon was 50 mph. The return trip took 1/5 hr longer because of heavy traffic. How far did she travel to the appointment?
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Question 626423: A boat propelled so as to travel with a speed of 25 ms-1 in still water, moves directly across a river 600m wide, the river flowing at 15 ms-1. How long will it take the boat to across the river? Toward what point on the opposite share is the point headed when it start.
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Question 626530: a small airplane traveled 170 mph with a tailwind and 130 with a headwind. find the speed of the wind and of the airplane in still air
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Question 626682: A lorry and a car travel uniformly along expressway from city A to city B . Thw lorry leaves at 915 amd arrives at 1315. The car leaves at 1000 and arrive at 1245. At what time did the car overtake the lorry.?
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Question 626697: Using Torrecelli's Principle, it can be shown that the depth d of a liquid in a bottle with a hole of area 0.5 cm^2 in its side can be approximated by d=0.0034t^2-0.52518t + 20, where t is the time since a stopper was removed from the hole. When will the depth be 10cm? Round to the nearest tenth of a second.
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Question 626831: a semicircular driveway has a diameter of 180 ft. How long is the driveway?
Use 3.14 for Pie
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Question 626919: A man travels 60 km in M minutes.if its average speed is 400 km per hour,find the value of m
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Question 626943: An airplane flight took 2 hrs. to travel 780 miles with the headwind and the return trip with the tailwind only takes 1.5 hrs. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
Pls. use two variables.
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Question 626940: An airplane flight took 2 hrs. to travel 780 miles with the headwind and the return trip with the tailwind only takes 1.5 hrs. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 626936: Please help me with this problem :)) thanks,
a car runs 10 km an hiur faster than a jeepney. Find the rate of each if the car can travel 200 km one hour less than that if the jeepney.
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Question 627032: You drive 70 miles per hour. What is your speed in feet per second?
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Question 627034: You drive 70 miles per hour. What is your speed in feet per second?
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Question 627035: You ride your bike up a steep mountain road
at 5 miles per hour. How far do you go in 3 hours?

Im trying to fiqure out how to solve this step by step any help would be nice. I have been out of math classes for atleast five years and need help on sample problem to get me back into math solving.

distance = 5mph*3 hrs
distance = 15 miles
ive come up with this butcant explain how i got there other than mulipliing mpg and the hour
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Question 627019: A car travels at an average speed of 48 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 3 hours and 15 minutes?
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Question 627019: A car travels at an average speed of 48 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 3 hours and 15 minutes?
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Question 627019: A car travels at an average speed of 48 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 3 hours and 15 minutes?
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Question 627033: Nancy and mark commute to work, traveling in opposite directions. Nancy leaves the house at 9:00 A.M. and average 35 miles per hous. Mark leaves at 9:15 A.M. and averages 60 miles per hour. At what time will they be 175 miles apart?
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