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Question 627066: I ran for twenty minutes at a constant speed of six miles per hour , what distance did I travel ?
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Question 627015: A car travels at an average speed of 100km per hour .What distance does it cover in 5minutes?
A car moving around a circlear Path takes 120secs to do a lap of 8km,What is the speed in km per hour ?
A lorry travels at an average of 90km per hour,What distance does it covers in 4minutes ?
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Question 627081: a 264-inch pipe is cut into two pieces. one piece is five times the length of the other. find the lengths of the two pieces.
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Question 627094: If a Ferris wheel takes 45 seconds to make a complete rotation, how many rotations will it complete in 3 hours?
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Question 627094: If a Ferris wheel takes 45 seconds to make a complete rotation, how many rotations will it complete in 3 hours?
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Question 627144: The train from New Brunswick to New York Averages 60 miles per hour, while the return trip from New York to New Brunswick averages 50 miles per hour. The round trip takes 3 hours. How many minutes does it take for the train to travel from New Brunswick to New York?
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Question 627232: the train from a to b averages 60 miles per hour, while the return trip from b to a averages 50 miles per hour. the round trip takes 3 hours. how many minutes does it take for the train to travel from a to b
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Question 627238: An airplane can travel 380 mph in still air. If it travels 3699 miles with the wind in the same length of time it travels 3141 against the wind, what is the speed of the wind?
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Question 627227: A small package is dropped from a hovering helicopter at an altitude of 490 m. Neglecting air resistance, how long does it take the package top reach the ground?
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Question 627248: A men goes 17 meter towards east. And 12 meter towards north and 12 meter towards west. Find how much distance covered by men?
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Question 627315: A train goes 10 miles in a 20 hours how many hours would it take to go
100
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Question 627413: From a point on a lake, two boats are driven in opposite directions, one at 9 mph and the other at 10 mph. In how many hours will they be 57 minutes apart?
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Question 627436: a car leaves station x and travels 35 kph, a faster car leaves station x and travels on a parallel track at 40 kph. how far from station x will the faster car catch the slower car?
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Question 627452: Two motorists start toward each other from cities 400 miles apart at 1 P.M. If one motorist travels at an average rate of 42 miles per hour and the other motorist travels at an average rate of 38 miles per hour, at what time will the cars meet?
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Question 627445: Cyril's house, the supermarket, and Josh's office are on a straight road. Cyril rode her car and traveled with a speed of 60 kph for 10 mins. Josh left his office to meet Cyril at the supermarket. He used his car and traveled with a speed of 90 kph for 5 mins. How far is Josh's office from Cyril's house?
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Question 627522: convert to equation: Jane walks 1 mile to the book store in the same time she can bicycle 2.5 miles to the mall. The speed on the bicycle is 6 miles/hour faster than her walking speed. What is her walking speed?
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Question 627546: A person travels 18 MPH going to a lodge and 12 MPH coming back. The total round trip took 6 hours. How far is the lodge from his house? (Give the answer in miles to 1 decimal place
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Question 627605: chris can ride his bicycle 7 1/2 miles in one hour how far can he travel in 4.5 hours
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Question 627632: if a car travels at 55 mph for 3 hours, how far does it go?
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Question 627659: A car travels at an average speed of 48 miles per hour.how long would it take to travel 216 miles
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Question 627716: what is the rate per hour for traveling 342 miles in 120 minutes
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Question 627776: At an average speed of 65 miles an hour, how many minutes are needed to drive 78 miles?
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Question 627776: At an average speed of 65 miles an hour, how many minutes are needed to drive 78 miles?
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Question 627894: Please help me with this word problem. Thank you very much!
Maria drives her car for 75 miles and uses 2.5 gallons of gas. How many miles could she drive on one gallon of gas?
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Question 627891: Please help me answer this problem. Thank you very much!
A store sells rice at a rate of 59 cents per ounce. How much would three pounds of rice costs?
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Question 627938: A thief escaped from police custody. Since he was a sprinter, he could run at a speed of 40 kmph. The police realised it after 3 hrs and started chasing him at 50 kmph. The police had a dog which could run at a speed of 60 kmph. The dog would run to the thief and return back to the police and then would turn back towards the thief.
It kept on doing so till the police caught the thief. Find the distance travelled by the dog in the direction of the thief.
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Question 627903: ABC Company is moving out of their current commerical space and into a new space just 15 minutes away. 9 truck loads will be needed. It takes 20 minutes to load a truck. It takes 15 minutes for a truck to travel to the new space, and it takes 20 minutes to unload a truck. How many physical trucks will be needed to complete this move process in 8 hours?
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Question 320038: A bank robber holds up a bank and speeds away on the freeway at 80 miles per hour. Thirty minutes later, police officers, having gotten a description from people at the bank, take off in pursuit at 90 miles per hour. How long will the police have to drive to catch up, and how far from the bank will they catch the robber?
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Question 627892: Please help me with this word problem. Thank you very much!
A turkey takes 6.25 hours to cook and instructions said 15 minutes per ound, how many ounds was the turkey?
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Question 628029: a car and truck are traveling north on a highway . the truck has a speed of 42 miles per hour and the car has a speed of 37 miles per hour . if the truck is ahead of the the car what is the relative velocity?
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Question 628049: johnny drove 35 miles in 10 minutes how fast was he going
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Question 628026: If an object is travelling at 10m per second and gains 3m per seconds how far will it have gone in 4 seconds?
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Question 627846: by how much is a car exceeding the speed limit of 100km/hr if it travels at 180 kms in 1.5 hours
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Question 627844: A train takes 2 hours to reach station b from station a, and then 3 hours to return from station b to station a. The distance between the stations is 200 km. Find the (a) average speed and (b) average velocity of the train. please find the velocity
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Question 628061: if i got on a train that went 100 miles per hour and it took 2 1/2 hrs to get there then i got on another train that went 50 miles per hour and took 1 hr and 45 mins. how many miles is that
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Question 628085: Two trains leave chicago, one headed due east at 60 mph and one headed due west at 50 mph. How long before they will be 990 miles apart?
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Question 628082: john traveled 40mph for half of his jorney and the other half at 60mph what was his average speed? show me the steps please
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Question 628055: Which rate is equivalent to 15 miles over one hour. Please show me the work.
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Question 628116: A vehicle traveled at 60km/h.Find the distance traveled in 1 hour 20 minutes

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Question 628113: Larry's time to travel 371 miles is 3 hours more than Terrell's time to travel 220 miles. Terrell drove 2 miles per hour faster than Larry. How fast did each one travel?
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Question 628164: a train travels from station A to station B at a distance of 200km apart takes 5 hpur.calculate the speed of the train.?
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Question 628190: If Mark is travelling South at 10 miles per hour for 45 minutes, and Sally is travelling North at 5 miles per hour for 30 minutes, and they meet after one hour, how far apart where they when they began
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