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Question 670787: Vera walked to a friends house at a rate of 3 miles per hour. Then they rode to work at a rate of 30 mph. The total time it took vera to get to work was 50 min. The total distance Vera traveled is 16 miles. How many miles did Vera walk and how many did she drive?
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Question 670601: Two pipes can together fill a tank in 40/13 mins. If one pipe takes 3 mins more than the other to fill it, find the timein which each pipe can fill the tank.
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Question 670819: a boat travels 132 miles in 12 hours(with a constant speed).how much time will it take traveling 286 miles
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Question 670905: if a car travels 1.5
miles, how many yards did the car travel
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Question 670747: 19. Two hikers leave town A at the same time and walk by two different routes to town B. The average speed of one hiker is 1 mile per hour more than the average speed of the other hiker. The slower hiker reaches town B 1/2 hour before the faster hiker, because the route taken by the faster hiker is 15 miles long, while the route taken by the slower hiker is only 10 miles long. What is the average speed of each hiker?

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Question 670909: Sarah is riding a horse at a velocity of 35 km/hr. She reaches the stable in 15 hours. How many kilometers did she travel?

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Question 670783: If a red kite is 100 ft. off the ground and rises at 8 ft. per second and a blue kite is 1890 ft. off the ground and rises at 5 ft. per second, then how long will it take for the red kite to be higher than the blue kite?

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Question 670944: Ann drove 804 miles in 12 hours.
At the same rate, how many miles would she drive in 5 hours?
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Question 671087: a car travels 50 mph for 3 hours.how far has it traveled

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Question 671136: Mahmoud runs to a marker and back in 15 minutes. His speed on the way to the market is 5m/s and his speed on the way back is 4m/s. Find the distance to the marker.
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Question 671286: You drive to Sacramento which is 320 miles away in 5 hours. First, give your rate of traveling in miles per hour, then give the rate in minutes per mile.
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Question 671336: How long does it take to get from Phoenix to Los Angeles?
Distance: ~600 km (370 miles)
Speed Limit
(65 mph = 0.03 km/s)
= _____ hours
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Question 671360: a boat can travel on a river 4 miles upstream in the same time it takes to travel 7 miles downstream. find the speed of the current if the speed of the boat in still water is 11 miles per hour
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Question 671413: If the average speed of a light plane had been 40km/h, the plane would have taken one hour longer to fly 1200 km. What was the speed of the plane?
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Question 671434: how long is a pipeline that runs diagonally across a square field 6 km on a side
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Question 671458: traveling an average of 62 mph ,how many miles will you travel in 5 hrs
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Question 671618: A Car A left City X, traveling at an average velocity of 50 miles per hour. Three hours later a Car B left City X traveling on the same road at 60 miles per hour. When will the Car B catch up with the Car A? How far will each car have traveled?
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Question 671673: A jet flew 1200 miles with a tailwind of 50 mph. The tailwind changed to 20 mph for the remaining 520 miles of the flight. The total time of the flight was 3 hours. Find the speed of the jet relative to the ground.
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Question 671719: A tugboat goes 120 miles upstream in 15 hours. The return trip downstream takes 5 hours. Find the speed of the tugboat without a current and the speed of the current.
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Question 671750: A car traveled at an average speed of 60 mph for two hours. How far did it travel?
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Question 671776: An object travels at a speed of 62 miles per hour. How man feet per minute does it travel?
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Question 671840: Two cars start from the same point and travel in opposite directions. One car is going 65mph and the other is going 70mph. If both cars left at 9:00am, at what time will they be 540 miles apart?
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Question 671893: find how long it takes Tran Nguyen to drive 700 miles on I-20 if he merges on I-20 at 1 pm and drives nonstop with his cruise control set on 70 mph
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Question 671842: A plane travels east at 250mph, leaving at 2:00pm. At 5:00pm, another plane leaves the same airport also going east. At what time will the faster plane catch up to the slower plane?
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Question 671841: Mary rides her bike to john's house, she returns the same way. She rides at a constant speed of 9 mph on level ground, she rides 6 mph going up hill and 18 mph going down hill. her total travel time is 1 hour, how far did she ride?

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Question 672031: a nitro-fueld dragster can accelerate 0 to 440 km/h in 5.0 s. assuming the vehicle's accelation is constant, calculate the vehicle's acceleration in meters per second squared.
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Question 672053: how far will a bus go in 90 minutes if it travels 50 miles an hour?
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Question 672077: How long would it take to drive 60 miles at 100 mph?
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Question 672110: Cheryl and Judy trudged at 4 mph until their packs got too heavy. Then they dropped their packs and continued at the brisk pace of 6 mph. If the total trip of 56 miles took 12 hours, how long did they trudge? How long did they walk briskly.
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Question 672234: You leave your house for school at 8 AM, driving the speed limit of 30 mph. A half hour later, your mother realizes that you forgot your socks. She jumps in her car and speeds towards you at 80 mph. At what time will your mother catch up to you? How far are the two of you from home at this point?
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Question 672240: the sum of the speeds of two trains is726.6 miles per hour. the speed of the fist train is 9.4 mph faster than the second train. find the speed of each train
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Question 672241: The sum of the speeds of two trains is 726.6 miles per hour. If the speed of the frist train is 9.4 mph faster than the second train,find the speed of each.
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Question 672211: if A walked 1km/hr faster then A would have taken 10 min less to walk 2km/hr. find the speed of A
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Question 672263: Formula Rate*Time=Distance.
A previous distance a Frisbee traveled was 30 feet at a rate of 3 feet per 3 seconds, the current rate a second Frisbee is traveling is 3 feet per 3 seconds. Can I assume that this second Frisbee will travel 30 feet based on the previous rate of 3 feet per time of 3 seconds?
Is this how to use the rate*time=distance formula to discover distance?
Can you please provide quick example of correct usage of the formula to predict the distance a Frisbee will travel?
Thank you.
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Question 672306: a motorist travels for one hour at an average speed of 72 km/h and then for two hours at an average speed of 90 km/h. Calculate his average speed for the whole journey
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Question 672361: A cyclist rides his bike at a speed of 25 miles per hour. What is this speed in kilometers per hour? How many kilometers will the cyclist travel in 3 hours? In your computations, assume that 1 mile is equal to 1.6 kilometers
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Question 672356: jack and sammy go on anhik. they start at opposite ends of the mountain. sammy travels at a rate of 1mph and jack travels 1/2 mph
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Question 672355: Hi!! I have a question, Charlie runs at a speed of 3 yards per second. How many feet per second does Charlie run? How do you solve this question?
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Question 672353: if a train is going 82 miles per hour how long would it take it to go 37 miles
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Question 672362: How long would it take to ride a bike somewhere that takes a car 12 minutes to get there?
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Question 672406: If don ran 8 mph how long would it take him to run 20 miles at that pace
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Question 672529: Sue runs 8 kilometers in 45 minutes. At the same rate, how many kilometers would she run in 18 minutes.
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