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Question 656157: My Husband is stuyding for to take the GED. He has the following problem:
Susan has to be to work at 7am. She needs 45 minutes to get ready and 35 minutes to travel to work. What is the latest time she can sleep until?
The Instructor wants to see a steps leading to the answer. My Husband is under the impression the answer should not be in hours and minutes. With the way question is written I can't think of another alternative.
Can you please help. Thank you.

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Question 656161: A car travels 151 miles in 3 hours. Find the average speed of the car in feet per second. Round to the nearest whole number.
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Question 656190: a cargo truck traveled 261 miles in 4 hours. About what speed was the truck averaging on this trip?
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Question 656174: From a point on a straight road, two cars are driven in opposite directions, one at 21 miles per hour and the other at 20 miles per hour. In how many hours will they be 164 miles apart?
If nothing else, I just need to get an equation laid out, your help is appreciated.
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Question 656294: This weekend, Mrs. Mchale is driving 250 miles to Baltimore. She is planning to leave at 1pm and drive 55 mph without stopping. Will she get to Baltimore before rush hour ?
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Question 656340: Russ and Janet are running in Apple Hill Fun Run. Russ runs at 7 mph, Janet at 5 mph. If they start at the same time, how long will it be before they are 1/2 mile apart?
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Question 656312: A cyclist leaves his training base for a morning workout, riding at the rate of 16 mph. One and one-half hours later, his support staff leaves the base in a car going 40 mph in the same direction. How long will it take the support staff to catch up with the cyclist?
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Question 656398: An airplane flies 1,775 miles from Boston to Dallas the trip takes 4 hour and 30 minutes what is the airplane average speed
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Question 656420: Suppose the tip of the minute hand of a clock is 2 in. from the center of the clock. For each duration, determine the distance traveled by the tip of the minute hand:
(a). 20 min.
(b). 10 1/2 hours
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Question 656431: the speed limit on a highway is 65 miles per hour .write an equation that shows the total number of miles driven,d,in t hours
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Question 656459: A military helicopter traveled at 140 mph. A motorcycle traveled at 60 mph. The motorcycle traveled for three hours longer than the helicopter and went 100 miles farther than the helicopter. How far did the motorcycle travel?
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Question 656482: show equation for this problem:
It requires 2.25 hours to travel from point a to point b. how many km is it if your average speed is 65.0 mi/hr?
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Question 656640: If it takes 23 hours to built 50 boxes, how many hours will it take to built 62 boxes?
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Question 656622: A jet plane, flying at 130 mph faster than a propeller plane, travels 4550 miles in 4 hours less time than the propeller plane takes to fly the same distance. How fast does each plane fly?
I am having problems with setting up the equation. When I attempted it I got: 4550=(r+130)(t-4) and sub-ed 4550/r for t (d=rt formula). When I solved I got 551.85 and -1071.85. both answers are incorrect. Please help!
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Question 656697: A train travel 700 m in 35 Sec. What is its Speed in Km Per Hour?
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Question 656793: Mr. Rodriguez plans to drive from New York to Chicago, a distance of 850 miles. How long will he take to make the trip if he averages 50 miles per hour?
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Question 656799: If you are going 20 mph., how many inches per second are you traveling?

If you are going 72 mph., how mnay feet per minute are you traveling?

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Question 656837: 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 656894: If I throw a baseball 7.5 m up in the air, how long will it take to get back to my hand?
I know that delta x is 7.5m, and I know that I need to find t, for time, and I also know that his acceleration is 9.8 meters per second squared. I used the equation delta x= v1(t) + 1/2(a)(t)^2, and I assumed that v1 would be 0, but I'm not right, and I don't understand why.
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Question 656945: if there is 200 km to travel and u r traveling at apeed of 80 km per hr how long will it take? How?
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Question 656939: a car travels 110 feet in 10 seconds , what speed will it be going
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Question 657010: What is the acceleration of a car that moves from rest to 60.ft/s in 10.0s?
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Question 657020: a girl lives 2.2 miles away from school. her car can travel 26 miles on 1 gallon of gas. the tank holds 16.9 gallons of gas. how much will it cost her to go to school if gas costs $3.45 per gallon?
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Question 657009: a bicyclist averages 18 km/hr for 20 minutees. How many km did the bicyclist travel?
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Question 657138: At noon, your family leaves Louisville on a trip to Memphis driving 40 mph. Your uncle leaves Memphis to come to Louiville 2 hours later driving 60 mph. The 2 cities are 380 miles apart. At what time will the cars meet?
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Question 657185: As an adult learner in my 40's I never learned mathematics due to what now has been diagnosed
As Dyscalculia and Irlen Syndrome. (without my special lenses the words/numbers move all over the Page. Looks like rivers of numbers. I am trying to teach myself mathematics can you help me with this problem? A car traveling at 50 miles an hour for 2.5 hours. How far did it go?
I am believing one would take the miles traveled (50) and multiply that by the the hours traveled (2.5). With that said, I think this is too easy an explanation. It is my fervent endeavor before I leave this earth to learn the highest math I can. Thank you very much, E L. Davis
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Question 657290: A car accelerates from rest to a velocity of 5 meters/second in 4 seconds. What is its average acceleration over this period of time?
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Question 657324: Two children cross a startign line at the same time, one running with a velocity of +3.5 m/s and the other with a velocity of 4.0 m/s. How far apart are they after 12 seconds?
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Question 657337: A boy walks 13 km in 2.0 hours. What is his speed in km/h and m/s?
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Question 657337: A boy walks 13 km in 2.0 hours. What is his speed in km/h and m/s?
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Question 657268: What is the velocity of a car that accelerates from rest at 9.0ft/s for 8.0s?
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Question 657354: if a car leaves at a speed of 25 mph and travels ten minutes then another car leaves from the same place at 35 mph when will the second car overtake the first car?
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Question 657373: An airplane flying north at 320 mph passed over a point on the ground at 2:00 p.m. Another plane at the same altitude passed over the point at 2:15 p.m.
flying east at 300 mph. At what time will the planes be 500 miles apart?
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Question 657510: How long will it take me to drive 3 miles if I'm going 500 mph?
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Question 657468: a bus travels 14 miles in 15 minutes. at the same ratemwhat distance will the bus travel in 50 minutes
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Question 657291: A scale drawing for three cities has a scale of 1cm to 10km. If A lies 75km due west of B, and c lies 50km due south of B, how far C is from A on the drawing ?
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Question 657516: How much distance does a 29" wheel cover within one rotation of the wheel?
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Question 657433: if it took 210 minutes to go 217.48 miles how fast were they going
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Question 657752: If it takes Lucas 7 Minutes and 30 seconds to run the mile, what is his average speed?
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Question 657711: the length of hose #1 is 20 feet less than 4 times #2 hose the combined length of the two is 380 feet
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Question 657807: If an automobile travels 450 yards in 15 seconds, How many feet does it go in 1/3 of a second? I need explanation besides 450 divided by 15 = 30 ft . Why or how is it solved.Is it to ignore the 1/3 of a second?
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Question 657814: Two trains are approaching on the same track again, this time 100 km apart. Train A is going 30 km/h, and Train B is going 20 km/h. This time, the engineers send a passenger pigeon between the two engines. The bird flies at 50 km/h, back and forth between the two approaching engines. Ignoring the time needed to untie, read, write responses, and re-tie the message on the poor bird's leg, how far will the bird have flown before the two trains collide? How many trips between the engines will the bird have flown?
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Question 657820: A teacher drove halfway from Point A to Point B at 120 km/h and the rest of the way at 90km/h. What was his average speed for the whole trip?
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Question 657863: two buses left at the same time from two terminals 600km apart and met in 5hours.One bus traveled at 4kph faster than the others.How far did each bus travel?

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