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Question 642629: If a train travels 100 MPH for 15 minutes, what is the distance traveled?
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Question 642593: Wilma drove at an average speed of 50 mi/h from her home in Boston to visit her sister in Buffalo. She stayed in Buffalo 10 hours and, on the trip back, averaged 45 mi/h. She returned home 29 hours after leaving. How many miles is Buffalo from Boston?
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Question 642107: bob takes escalator from subway to street level. if he runs-up 8 stairs it takes him 46.5 seconds. if he runs-up 13 stairs it takes him 39.0 seconds.
How long will it take bob to get to the top if he doesn't run at all?
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Question 642700: The figure shows a right circular cylinder with radius r and height h. The cylinder is OPEN (no top, just the red bottom). We know the volume of the cylinder is 470 cubic feet. We model the total area of the material needed to construct the cylinder: a rectangle to form the lateral surface of the cylinder and a 2r x 2r square (gray and red) from which to cut out the (red) base.
Express the total area of material necessary to build the cylinder, including the waste from cutting out the bottom, as a function of the radius r.
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Question 642888: if you drove 30 miles in 5 hour how many mile has you drove
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Question 642940: a bike rider is traveling at a speed of 15 feet per second. Write an expression for the distance traveled after s seconds. Make a table that records the distance for 3.0,5.8, and 14.0 seconds.
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Question 642877: a woman begins jogging at 3 pm at a 6 minute mile pace. later she reverses direction and runs at a 7 minute mile pace. if she returns to her starting point at 3:45. find the total number of miles run.
how do you set up the equation? I think it is a problem where you have two equations and substitute but I'm not positive.
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Question 642928: A car rents for $35 per day plus 18 cents per mile. You are on a daily budget of $71. What mileage will allow you to stay within your budget?
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Question 643015: two cars traveling toward each other are 270 miles apart. car a is traveling 25 miles per hour faster than car B. the cars pass after 2 hours. how fast is each car traveling?

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Question 643023: a train that is 1 mile long starts through tunnel that is also 1 mile long.The train is traveling 15 miles per hour how long does it take the train to get completely out of the tunnel

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Question 643117: if i'm driving 25mph how far can i make it in 15 minutes
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Question 643118: A car is traveling 500 meters in 5.5 seconds? How many miles per hour is this?
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Question 643287: A bus leaves SanFrancisco headed for LA an hour later a bus leaves LA headed for SanFrancisco when they meet which will be closer to SanFrancisco
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Question 643417: two boats leave port at the same time, one east and one south (90 degree angle)
the eastbound boats speed is 2mph greater than the southbound boats speed. after 9 hours the boats are 90 miles apart. what is the southbound boats speed?
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Question 643411: A passenger train leaves the train depot 2 hours after a freight train left the same depot. The freight train is traveling 20 mph slower than the passenger train. Find the rate of each train, if the passenger train overtakes the freight train in 3 hours.
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Question 643463: A car traveld at 88 km/h for 5 hours. How far did it travel?

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Question 643610: A plane flies from San Francisco to New York a distance of 4,000km in 4hrs 30 mins. What was the speed of the plane?
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Question 643482: Answer the following problems completely. If possible ,illustrate the given problems to solve them clearly.

A boy walks due east, 100 m and then walks 150 m due north. How far is the boy from the starting point?

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Question 643665: 1,234 miles/hr=? miles /min
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Question 643532: This fly has been clocked at more than 92 miles per hour in a straight line flight. using this flight rate how many kilometers can this fly travel in 3.5 hours?
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Question 643805: A diesel train left Washington and traveled
toward Johannesburg at an average speed of
52 mph. A cattle train left two hours later
and traveled in the same direction but with
an average speed of 60 mph. Find the
number of hours the diesel train traveled
before the cattle train caught up
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Question 643831: Michael drove to a friend's house at a rate of 40 mi/h. He returned by the same route at a rate of 45 mi/h. The driving time for the round trip was 4 hours. What is the distance Michael traveled?
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Question 643933: In the morning Maria drove to a business appointment at 40 mph. Her average speed on the return trip in the afternoon was 30 mph. The trip took 1/3 hour longer because of heavy traffic. How far did she travel to the appointment?
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Question 643980: Find the time it takes to drive 525 miles at 50 miles per hour. Write an algebraic equation.
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Question 643970: John is three times as far from the finish line as he is from starting point of a 10-km race How far has he run?
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Question 643926: At noon a cargo plane leaves mchare airport and heads east at 180 mph. It's destination is jamesville, 500 miles away.at 1:00 pm a her takes off from mchare and lies east after the cargo plane at 450 mph. At what time will the jet overtake the cargo plane?
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Question 644082: At noon a train leaves Washington, D.C., headed for Charleston, South Carolina, a distance of 500 mi. The train travels at a speed of 60 mph. At 1 P.M. a second train leaves Charleston headed for Washington, D.C., traveling at 50 mph. How long after the train leaves Charleston will the two trains pass each other?
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Question 644095: if a car is traveling at 60 mph and a truck leaves the same location 15 mins later and travels at 74mph when will they meet?

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Question 644106: At 2:30 pm, two cars start toward each other from towns 240 miles apart. If the rate of one car is 10 mph faster than the other, how fast does each car go if they meet at 5:00 pm?
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Question 644050: mall is 60 miles away,and i'm driving 40 mph the whole way, how long will it take me?
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Question 644193: Solve the problem.
Tom Whig traveled 220 miles east of St Louis. For most of the trip he averaged 60 MPH, but for one period of time he was slowed to 10mph due to major accident. If the total time of the travel was 7 hours, how many miles did he drive at the reduced speed?
Ans: I know I'm probably wrong but I subtracted 60-10=50mph he drove at reduced speed?
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Question 644247: If a truck goes 300 feet in 2.5 seconds what is the mph of truck
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Question 644295: The word problem I am stuck on is: A man travels 72 miles to his destination in 1.5 hours. During the first leg of his trip he encountered construction during which he traveled 30mph. The second leg of his trip he was able to travel 60mph. How much time was spent in the construction zone?
I am not sure where to begin with this problem. I know that t will = the time the man spent in the construction zone because it is the unknown. I converted hours to minutes, so 90 minutes I assume is a little easier to handle. But constructing a formula is where I feel like a deer in the headlights. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated! Thank you- Andrea
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Question 644299: If a car and a plane traveled 100 miles who traveled further?

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Question 644334: Will you please tell me what steps I would take to solve this problem: 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 644381: One bus left a terminal traveling east at 80 kilometers per hour. A second bus left an hour and a half later traveling west at ninety kilometers per hour. At what time will the buses be 460 kilometers apart?

Please help, thanks.
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Question 644447: Two cyclists start at the same point, but travel along two straight streets in different directions. If they continue, how many times will their path cross again? Explain.

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Question 644508: A plane traveled 400 miles to Rome and back. The trip there was with the wind. It took 4 hours. The trip back was into the wind. The trip back took 8 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 644534: A cargo plane flew to the maintence facility and back. It took one hour less time to get there than it did to get back. The average speed on the trip there was 220 mph. The average speed on the way back was 200 mph. How many hours did the trip there take?
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Question 644569: if i drove from new orleans to atlanta at 80 mph how long is the drive?
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Question 644568: Can you show me the steps to solving this and how to set up an equation to solve it?
Sarah and John are driving in opposite direction on a straight road. John is driving fifteen miles per hour faster than Sarah. After three hours they are 375 miles apart. How fast were Sarah and John traveling?
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Question 644388: Denise and Joan are 28.5 miles apart. at exactly the same time, the begin traveling towards each other. Denise speed is 5 mph less than twice joan's speed. they meet in 90 minutes. How fast does each travel?
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