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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 644580: During a canoe trip, a camper paddles a distance of 406 m in 70 sec. What is the average speed in a) m/sec b) km/hr
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Question 644580: During a canoe trip, a camper paddles a distance of 406 m in 70 sec. What is the average speed in a) m/sec b) km/hr
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Question 644723: If a car goes 90 MPH for 3 hours, how far did it travel? How do you find the answers to these type of problems, step by step?
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Question 644828: How far will a car travel in 30 minutes at 10 miles per second?
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Question 644829: Actually this is an algeberaic physics question. How do I work uniformly accelerated motion problems?
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Question 644882: if a train arrives two hours late to its destination is that a negative or positive two hours?
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Question 645174: A car travels at 60.0 miles per hour and gets 12.0 kilometers per liter of gasoline. How many gallons of gasoline are needed for a 1.50 hour trip?

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Question 645232: For the first 5 miles of a 10-mile race, Joshua's rate was 10 mph. for the last 5 miles, his rte slowed to 8 mph. How long it take for Joshua to complete the race?
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Question 645229: Micheal drove to a friends 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 h. What is the distance Michael traveled.
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Question 645418: A train covers a distance of 51km in 45minutes.how long will it take to run 221km?
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Question 645403: I have 900 pieces to inpsect, it take 15 minutes to inspect, how long would this take?

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Question 645452: If a car was to travel a distance of 180km at a speed of 60km/h, how long would this take? I know the formula is Time = Distance divided by Speed, but i did this and i got 3 minutes...surely this can't be right?...
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Question 645400: If you leave your house and drive at exactly 45 mph for 15 minutes you will get to my house, How many miles is it from your house to mine
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Question 645393: A train,120m long,travelling at 78km/hr overtakes another train in the same direction at 60km/hr and passes it completely 70seconds.find the length of the 2nd train.
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Question 645547: What is the average speed of a person racing 400mi. In 2.5 hours?
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Question 645547: What is the average speed of a person racing 400mi. In 2.5 hours?
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Question 645671: I am a math tutor now and I'm having a hard time remembering how to swt this up.
Paul and Randy are taking a trip. Paul drives at 85mph. Randy drives at 90mph. Randy drove three hours longer than Paul. All together they covered 970 miles. How long did each person drive.
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Question 645736: Jared is traveling at a rate that allows him to go 29 miles in 44 minutes. What is his average speed, in miles per hour?
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Question 645854: If a fish swims 48 km/hr, how long will it take to reach a smaller fish that is 3 m away?~~~~
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Question 645861: if a dog in one hour can run 10 miles farther then a cat but together run 70 miles in one hour then how many miles can each animal run in one hour
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Question 645832: From a hot air balloon 3 km high a person looks east and sees one town with angle of depression of 18 degrees. He then looks west to see another town with angle of depression of 86 degrees
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Question 645887: if you are going somewhere 20 miles away and you are going 50 mph how long would it take you
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Question 645894: if you have a speed of 1224 kmh how long would it take to drive 2,790 miles from L.A. to New York City if the roads are clear
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Question 646013: ben takes 2 hours to wash 500 dishes, frank takes 3 hours to wash 450 dishes. how long will they take if they are working together, to wash 1000 dishes

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Question 645999: If you travel 10 miles at an average speed of 25 mi/hr and then travel another 10 miles at an average speed of 65 mi/hr what was your average speed for the whole trip?
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Question 646128: A bullet is fired horizontally at a
target, and the sound of its impact is heard 1.5 seconds later.
If the speed of the bullet is 3300ft/sec and the speed of
sound is 1100ft/sec , how far away is the target?
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Question 646156: estimate the total distance you can travel in 4 hours 55 minutes if you drive on average 42 miles per hour. give your answer in whole miles
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Question 646237: if a salesman travels 300 miles in 7 hours, how far will he travel in 15 hours

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Question 646236: How much gas does it take for my Ford car to travel 75 miles per hour?
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Question 645981: How long will it take a car to travel 200km at 50km per second?
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Question 646262: Marcia flew her ultralight plane to a nearby town against a head wind of 15 km/h in 2 h and 20 minutes. The return trip under the same wind conditions took 1 h and 24 minutes. Find the plane's air speed and the distance to the nearby town. I tried a chart and can't get it in the right order to solve. I have lots of wind problems on my homework assignment and just can't figure it out!
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Question 646273: Please help me solve this, because I don't understand how to do it using dimensional analysis.
"Using dimensional analysis, convert 75 mi/hr into meters per second. (33.33 m/s)"
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Question 646028: The formula d=rt relates the distance (d), the rate (r), and the time(t). Solve the equation for t and use the rewritten equation to find an expression for the time it takes to travel a distance of (b3-6b2+9b+16) miles at a rate of (b+1)mph.
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Question 646401: It took geoff 10 minutes to drive 5 miles what is geoffs average speed miles per hour?
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Question 646383: At an average speed of 8 m/s, how many kilometers can a cyclist travel in a 10 hour day?
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Question 646482: "A car's gas tank can hold up to 17 gallons of gasoline; when driving on the highway, it gets 28 miles per gallon. If you've traveled 103 miles, how many gallons of gas have you used?"
I am so confused. I tried dividing the miles driven by 28 but it didn't work. Pleas help! If possible, please provide a formula for how you found it. Thank you in advance
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Question 646572: A search plane has a cruising speed of 250 mph and carries enough fuel for at most 5 hours of flying. If there is a wind that averages 30 mph and the direction of the search is with the wind one way and against it the other, how far can the search team travel before it has to turn back?
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Question 646694: In a water refilling station, one pipe can fill a tank in 30 min. while another pipe can fill it in 40 min. A third pipe can empty the same tank in 20 min. If all pipes are opened at the same time. in how many minutes will the tan be filled?
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Question 646760: two cars, which are 424 miles apart and whose speeds differ by 8 miles per hour, are moving toward each other. If they meet in 4 hours, find the speed of each car.
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Question 646691: darcy and ian live 24km apart. One day, they agreed to ride a bicycle and meet in a place between the towns where they live. Darcy travelled with a speed of 20kph while Ian 12kph. If they left their respective houses at 9:30, at what time did they meet?
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Question 646612: calculate how far an airplane would fly in 3h if its average speed is 800 km/h

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