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Question 647144: pleaser help me on this problem. What is the length of a marathon in kilometers of 26miles. Thank you.

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Question 647172: A train leaves NYC for Washington DC traveling at 90 mph. At the SAME TIME, a train leaves Washington DC for NYC traveling at 95 mph. If NYC and Washington DC are 462.5 miles apart, how long will it take before the two trains meet?
*I do believe that "how long will it take" refers to the distance in miles since the problem doesn't involve time.
Will the question have two answers since there are two starting points?
Thank you for your help :D
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Question 647185: At 10 A.M. two cars leave the same location and travel in opposite directions. One car's speed is 50 mi/h, while the other's speed is 55 mi/h. At what time are the cars 273 miles apart?
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Question 647214: You and a friend each drive 59 km. You travel at 91. km/h, your friend at 96 km/h. How long will your friend wait for you at the end of the trip?
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Question 647166: I am trying to help my son with his homework, and it might as well be in a foreign language. If someone could help me understand how to solve this maybe I can figure out the rest.
Two trains start at the same place traveling in opposite directions for 6 hours. After 3 hours they are 414 miles apart. How fast is each traveling if the rate of one train is 8 miles per hour faster than the other?
Thank you in advance.
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Question 647229: You drive a car 3.0 h at 30 km/h, then 3.0 h at 60 km/h.
What is your average velocity?
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Question 647252: two people leave their homes that are 3 miles apart and begin walking towards each other. If one person walks at a rate that is 4mph faster than the other and they meet after .5 hrs, how fast was each person walking?
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Question 647212: if soccer field is 400 feet wide and 600 feet long how many feet to go diagonally across?
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Question 647220: venus is 31.2 million mi farther from the sun than mercury, while earth is 57 million mi farther from the sun than mercury. if the total of the distances from these planets is 196.2 million mi, how far away from the sun is mercury?
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Question 647282: Your schedule leaves you 45 minutes to get to work. You can travel the whole way by bus which averages 22 mph. Work is 11 miles away. Will you make it on time?

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Question 646678: A,B,C can finish a piece of work in 60 days. They work together for 10 days after which A leaves, B and C continue for 20 days more days, after which B leaves. then C working for one-third longer each day completes the remaining work in 96 more days. If C had been working working at its own original rate then he would have completed the work in 222 days. How long would B take?
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Question 647319: if a car accelerates and move at a constant speed of 40km/h and reaches 80 km in 3 hours,and then de accelerates and come back at same speed of 40km/h and reaches 40 km in 3 hours,then what we have done in 6 hours as displacement is zero for the car.
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Question 647320: If I am chasing someone and step for step I am right behind I have no chance of coming up even with him. So why is it that if I run at a forty-five degree angle from his angle of direction, I am eventually able to come up even with him, even though at a distance from him? We walked the distance and it works in practice.
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Question 647342: If a car travels af 70 MPH for 2 hours, how much distance does it cover in 2 hours?
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Question 647347: A car starts from rest, and reaches a speed of 50MPH in 6 seconds, what is the acceleration and average speed ?
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Question 647263: If two skier are 60 kilometers apart and head towards each other. They meet in 3 hours. If the second skier is 6 kilometers per hour faster the the other. Find the speed of each skier
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Question 647398: If it takes 3 hours to travel to Dallas, TX a total trip of 192 miles. How fast was the driver going?
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Question 647405: A train travels 500 miles in 3.5 hours. how far can it travel in 40 minutes?
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Question 647465: In order for an investment of $1000 to grow to more than $1062.50 in two years, what must the annual rate be? ( A=P(1+rt))
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Question 647403: A truck leaves Gaston at noon traveling 55 mph. An hour later, a car leaves Gaston following the same route as the truck but traveling 65mph. In how may hours will the car catch up to the truck?
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Question 647464: Your department sends it's copying to the photocopy center of your company. The center bills your department $.10 per page. You suggest buying a copier for $3000. With your own copier the cost per page would be $.03. The expected life of the copier is four years. How many copies must you make in the four-year period to justify buying the copier?
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Question 647505: Train A and train B leave the station at 9:20am. Train A returns to the station every 35 minutes. Train B returns to the station every 20 minutes. When is the next time they will both be at the station at the same time?
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Question 647547: On the fastest speedway, some drivers reach average speeds of 3 miles per minute. Write a formula that gives the number of miles M that such a driver would travel in x mintues
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Question 647535: a nonstop train leaves new york for los angeles traveling at a constant rate of 80 miles per hour. another nonstop train leaves los angeles for new york, at a constant rate of 60 miles per hour both traveling on the same straight track. how far apart are the fronts of the trains in miles 1 hour before they meet?
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Question 647588: How long is 63 minutes
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Question 647792: A walker covers a distance of 1.8 km in 29 minutes. What is the average speed of the walker for this distance in km/hr? How do you do this?
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Question 647707: a plane flies 400 miles with the wind and 300 miles against the wind in the same length of time. If the speed of the wind is 25 mph, what is the speed of the plane in still air?
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Question 647797: Jennifer drives to her friends house 20km away. There is no direct route so she travels 15km through the city at 50km/h and 15km on the highway at 100km/h. The trip takes 27minutes. Find Jennifer's average speed.
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Question 647839: P dollars, invested at interest r compounded annually, increase to an amount A=P(1+r)^2 in 2 years. An investment of $1000 is to increase to an amount greater than $1100 in 2 years. The interest rate must be greater than what percent?
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Question 647843: The revenue and cost equations for a product are
R=x(50-0.0002x) and C=12x+150,000
where R and C are measured in dollars and x represents the number of units sold. How many units must be sold be obtain a profit of at least $1,650,000?
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Question 647918: Ryan walks 2km in going to school while Linda rides a tricycle in traveling 6 km. Linda's rate of travel while riding in a tricycle is four times that of Ryan's rate of walking.
a. How you represent Ryan's rate of walking?
How about Linda's rate of traveling while riding in a tricycle?

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Question 647948: A man is walking at a rate of 3 miles per hour. How far will he walk in 36 minutes?
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Question 647956: Bob and Mary start traveling toward each other fromm 600 miles apart. Bob is traveling at 45 miles per hour, mary at 55 miles per hour. Compute the time elapsed before they meet.
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Question 647961: Karen and steve start traveling toward each other from 825 miles apart. karen is traveling at 32 mph and steve at 36 miles per hour. compute the distance karen will travel befor they meet
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Question 647958: A train leaves San Francisco for los angeles at 8:00 am. a second train leaves Los angles for san francisco at 8;00 am the same day. the distance between the two cities is 400 miles. if each train travels at an average spped of 80 mph what time will it be when the two trains meet.
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Question 647921: In a race of 1000m, Jacqui finishes 110m ahead of Lisa and 180m ahead of Fran. If Lisa and Fran continue at the same rates, how far in front of Fran will Lisa finish? (The answer is not 80m).
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Question 647877: a truck enters the highway driving 60mph. a car enter the highway at the same place 8 minutes later and drives 67mph in the same direction. from the time the car enters the highway , how long will it take the car to pass the truck?

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Question 647933: Need a ratio table for 11 miles in 16 minutes if possible
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Question 648064: You commute 56 miles one way to work. The trip takes 10 minutes longer than the trip home.your average speed on the trip home is 8 miles per hour faster. What is your average speed on the trip home?
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Question 648115: From NO to EL PASO is 1,224 miles, the fast train makes this trip in 22 2/3 hours. What is the average speed??
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Question 648107: An airplane has a destination 210 miles due south. It is traveling south at 105 mph There is a wind from the east at 22 mph If the pilot doesn't account for the wind, how far off course will he be?

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Question 648179: At 10:30 am two planes leave Houston, one flying east at 560 km/h and the other flying west at 640 km/h. At what time will they be 2100 km apart?
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