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Question 632549: How long would it take me to go 18 miles at 72 mph?

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Question 633557: how long will it take me to travel 189 miles at the speed of 75 miles per hour
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Question 633561: mark leaves home at 9am and arrives at work at 9:45am. If the distance between his work and home is 30 miles, how fast did he travel?
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Question 633581: Can anyone help me solve this Im stuck
a fisherman is traveling on Pearl River took twice as long to travel 60 miles upstream in his boat that down stream. If the boats speed is 25 miles per hour in still water, find the speed of the current.
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Question 633628: Write an equation or inequality: The distance d to school is 1 1/2 miles more than the distance p to the park.
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Question 633687: Car is travellin 100km ,hw mny minutes will it take to reach 250km?
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Question 633789: A plane passes over a car going 300 mph heading south. The car is traveling at 70 mph going north. In how much time will they be 805 miles apart?
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Question 633798: Please help me on this world problem: Mike walks 2 miles per hour faster than Steve. Steve walks 12 miles in 4 hours. How long would it take for Mike to walk the same distance? I need the steps please too! Thank you so much!
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Question 633823: A motorboat takes 5 hours to travel 300 going upstream. The return trip takes 3 hours going downstream. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 633831: How long would it take to walk driving for an hour going 40 mph?
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Question 633836: Trains A and B, 200 km apart on the same track, travel at speeds of 50 km/hr and 65 km/hr respectively. At the end of 1 hour, the distance between the trains could not be
A) 85 km B) 115 km C) 185 km D) 215 km
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Question 633670: A proton is traveling at a constant speed of 0.5 c (half the speed of light) along a circular path inside a particle accelerator. The area enclosed inside the accelerator is 1.6 square kilometers. How many times can the proton go around in 80 nanoseconds?
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Question 633862: A car travels to the east from City A to City B, it takes 2 hours, and the road mileage is 100 miles. The map shows that the cities are only 80 miles apart. What is the average velocity?
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Question 629903: An audience of 530 persons is seated in rows having the same number of persons in each row. If 3 more persons sit in each row,it would require 2 rows less to seat the audience. How many persons were in each row originally?
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Question 633896: Stephanie and her friend, Paula, are waiting for a shuttle to take them to their terminal at the airport. The first shuttle that arrives only has room for one more passenger, so Stephanie gets on. The next shuttle arrives 10 minutes later and Paula gets on. If Stephanie's shuttle travels at a speed of 20 mph and Paula's shuttle travels at a speed of 35 mph, how long will it take Paula's shuttle to catch up to Stephanie's shuttle?
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Question 633944: On Saturday, Earl rode his bike for 2 hours longer than Ted. Earl traveled 135 km and Ted traveled 81km. If they both averaged the same rate of speed, how long did earl ride?
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Question 633932: If 90 cars cross a bridge in 1 hour how many can cross in 40 minutes?
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Question 633948: Question: Mary travels from the city to visit her sister in the country. On the way, she travels 55km/hr. She stays with her sister for 20 hours before starting home. On the return trip, she travels 45 km/hr. She returned home a grand total of 41 hours after she left. How far away, in kilometers, is Mary's house from her sister's?
What I've managed to reason:
41 hours total-20 hours visiting=21 hours traveling
From there, I'm clueless. I've no idea how to start building the equation for this. Help, please?
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Question 633969: a boat takes the same amout of time to go 14 miles upstream as it does to go 16 miles downstream. if the current of the river is 2 mph, what is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 633988: A person travvelled a particular distance at the rate of 30 kilometers per hour but returned at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.what was his average speed?
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Question 634025: A farmer drove to the market on friday at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. he returned home on sunday along the same route and averaged 40 miles per hour. if the framer spent a total of two hours driving to and from the market, how many miles did the farmer drive to the market on friday?
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Question 634002: a river has a current of 5mph. it takes al half an hour longer to paddle upstream 1.2 miles than to paddle downstream the same distance. what is Als rate in still water?
set up a quadratic equation and solve
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Question 634129: Need help please ,
Two trains travel round toy railway track, one takes 40 secs per circuit, the other takes 55 secs.
How long before they are back in the station together?
Look forward to a reply
Best regards and many thanks
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Question 634130: Need help please ,
Two trains travel round toy railway track, one takes 40 secs per circuit, the other takes 55 secs.
How long before they are back in the station together?
Look forward to a reply
Best regards and many thanks
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Question 634188: Nancy and Mark commute to work, traveling in opposite directions. Nancy leaves the house 8:00am and averages 35 miles per hour. Mark leaves at 8:15am and averages 40 miles per hour. At what time will they be 140 miles apart?
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Question 634220: If I'd drive 70 miles and hour how long will it take me to drive 70 miles
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Question 634224: How do I set up this equation?
Dumi travels 62 miles each day from his house to school. he walks to the bus stop at 4 miles per hour. He rides the rest of the way by bus which averages 40 miles per hour. The entire trip takes 2 hours. How much time does he spend walking and how much time does he spend on the bus?
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Question 634106: In Jan. 2006, a spacecraft called New Horizons began its journey to Pluto. The trip is 3.5x10^9 miles long and will take 9 1/2 years. How many miles will New Horizons travel per year?
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Question 634237: A 20 - ft ladder is leaning against a wall. The top of the ladder is 15 - ft above the ground. How far is the bottom of the ladder from the wall?
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Question 634236: Two airplanes depart from the same place at 2 pm. One plane flies north at a speed of 478 km/hr, and the other flies east at a speed of 374 km/hr. How far apart are the airplanes at 4:00 pm?
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Question 634260: if its 3:15 now what time will it be in an hour and 50 mintues
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Question 634467: to get to work from my home, I travel 8 miles north and then turn west and travel 6 miles. If i could travel in a straight line from my home to work, how much distance would i save?
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Question 634461: Greg lives 25 miles from school. One day he takes the bus to school and returns home by car. His total travel time is 1 1/2 hours. If the car travels at twice the rate of the bus, find the average rates of the bus and car.
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Question 634468: Two planes which are 2475 miles apart fly toward each other. Their speeds differ by 75 mph. If they pass each other in 3 hours, what is the speed of each?
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Question 634528: If a car has been traveling at 64 mph for about 4.5 hours, how far can we expect the car to have traveled? How much longer would it take the car to have traveled 350 miles?
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Question 633974: Nelson can paint a gym in 7 hours. His assistant, Mike, takes 12 hours to paint the same gym. How long will it take them to paint the gym working together?
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Question 634556: how fast am I walking if it takes me 35 minutes to go 1-1/2 miles.
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Question 634558: Two airplanes fy towards each other from two points 950 miles apart, at the rates of 200mph and 250mph, when will be 50 miles apart?
Thaaank yooou <3
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Question 634640: The train traveled at 50 MPH from Bedford to Middleton. The trip took 25 minutes. About how far away is Middleton from Bedford?
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Question 634535: A train after traveling 150 km meets with an accident and then proceeds with 3/5 of its former speed and arrives its destination 8 hours late. Had the accident occurred 360 km further, it would have reached the destination 4 hours late. What is the total distance traveled by the train?
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