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Question 689063: Imagine you live only 1 miles from work and you decide to walk if you walked for miles per hour how long will it take you to walk 1 mile
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Question 689060: 2 cars leave town at the same time going in opposite directions 1 travels 55 miles per hour another travel 48 miles per hour in how many hours will they be 206 mil
es apart?
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Question 688998: Elizabeth can run 5 miles in two thirds of an hour, how far can she run in one hour
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Question 689006: A Mississippi riverboat can travel 70 kilometers downstream in 5 hours and can make the return trip in 7 hours. Find the speed of the boat in still water.

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Question 689226: A car is traveling at 55mi/h. What is the cars speed per second
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Question 689271: A boat is 9km north then 15 km west from the starting point. How far is the boat from its starting point?
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Question 689344: Two cars leave an intersection at the same time. One car is headed north at the rate of 1 Km/min while the other is headed east at the rate of 2.4 Km/min. What is the direct distance between the two cars, in kilometers, 5 minutes after the cars left the intersection?

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Question 689363: it takes for an object to fall d meters when thrown at a velocity of 9.5 meters per second. Supposed a rock is thrown down from a spot on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland, If it takes 5.1 sec for the rock to hit the water, how hihg is the bridge at this point?
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Question 689646: if i drove 9000 kilometers at 60k per hour how many hours would i have driven

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Question 689676: what is 2 and 1 half times 50 miles per hour
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Question 689769: "A car leaves Berlin on the autobahn at 60 mph. How long will it take a second car traveling at 90 mph to catch the first car if it leaves 2 hours later?"
This doesn't seem like a distance problem -- it's more time-related, but I wasn't sure what category to put it in. I hope this isn't a problem.
Anyway, here's what I tried:
60(x) = 90(120 + x)
60x = 10,800 + 90x
-30x = 10,800
..and that's where I stopped! I got a little put off by the negative sign. This can't be right, can it? Thanks in advance!
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Question 689771: I need help with this word problem please. How far will you travel if you run for 10 minutes at 2 meters per second? Here is my work so far...
2 m over 1 sec X 60 sec over 1 min = 2(60) over 1 = 120 m/min
2 m over 1 sec x 60 sec over 1 min x 10 cm over 1 m

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Question 690037: a train travels 180kph,how far will it go in 1 hour and 30 mins

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Question 690101: Two cyclists start toward each other from points 25 miles apart. Cyclist No. 1 travels 15 mph, while Cyclist No. 2 travels to 10 mph. A trained bird leaves the shoulder of cyclist No. 1 and travels to the shoulder of Cyslist No.2 and forth until the cyclists meet. If the bird flies at 40 mph, how far will the bird fly?
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Question 690132: How long would it take a car traveling at 200 mph go in a 1/4 of a mile?
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Question 690083: the Quade family drove 920 miles in 3 days, they drove the same number of miles each day. How do you find out the number of miles that they drove in the first two days.
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Question 690117:
Last week, the car's odometer read 152,834. After 12 gallons of gas was consumed, it read 153,141. To the nearest tenth, what was the car's average mile per gallon of gas?
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Question 690107:

If a carp can travel at a speed of of 3 7/10 per hour.
At this rate how far can a carp travel in 2 1/2 hours?
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Question 689652: Patricia flew a small airplane for 3 hours with the wind and traveled 585km. The return trip against the wind took 5 hours. Find the rate at which she flew in still air.

What I have tried and failed:
3(r+w)=585 --> 3r+3w=585
5(r-w)=585 --> 5r-5w=585
15r+15w=2925 15r=8775
15r-15w=1755 r=585 3(585)+3w=585
1755+3w=585
-1755 -1755 <--- I figured this was wrong
because it was negative..

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Question 690247: Peter drove a distance of 189 miles. Part of the time he averaged 65 miles per hour, and for the remaining time, he averaged 55 miles per hour. The entire trip took 3 hours. How long did he travel at each rate?
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Question 690329: Jenny runs 600 yards in 2.5 minutes. what is her speed expressed in feet per minute?
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Question 690526: I'm driving 40 miles an hour, I have 60 miles still to go, how long will it take me to get there?
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Question 690716: How many city miles can I travel off of 5 gallons of gas?
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Question 690704: On Monday Katie rode her motorcycle m miles in 8 hours. On the Tuesday, she rode 3 times as far in 11 hours. If her average speed for the two days was 52 mi/h, how far did she ride on Monday?
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Question 690468: A train running at 60 kmph takes 30 seconds to pass a platform. It takes 18 seconds to pass a person walking at 7 kmph in the same direction in which the train is running. What is the length of the railway platform and also the length of the train.
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Question 690729: You run at a rate of 4 miles per hour and your friend runs at a rate of 3.5 miles per hour. Your friend starts running 10 minutes before you, and you run for a half hour on the same path. Will you catch up to your friend? Use a graph to support your answer.
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Question 690873: The radius of Earth is 6,371 kilometers. A space shuttle orbits 315 kilometers above the surface of Earth. The space shuttle completes 240� of a revolution around Earth in one hour. What is the average speed of the space shuttle?
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Question 690848: A car travels 60 meters and it takes the car 3 seconds to go that distance. What is the cars speed?
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Question 690959: Train A, is 10 meters from the station and is traveling at the rate of 5 meters per minute. Train B, started at the station and is traveling at the rate of 8 meters per minute. How much time will pass until they are in the same place? And explain why your answer is reasonable.

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Question 690998: A plane flies 600 miles upwind in 3 hours. It makes the return trip in only 2 hours. What is the speed of the plane still in the air?
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Question 691046: A person sitting in a train which is travelling at 60 kmph finds that another train in the opposite direction takes 8 seconds to pass him. What is the speed of the second train if it is 140 meters long?
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Question 691138: If I drive 50 km/h, what distance do I drive in one minute?
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Question 691164: How much longer does it take to drive through a two-mile work zone at 45 mph instead at 65 mph?
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Question 691186: At 6:00 A.M., two trains leave from points 480 miles apart. The trains are moving toward each other on parallel tracks. One train is travelling at 80 miles per hour, and the other train is traveling at 60 miles per hour. What time will it be when the trains pass each other
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Question 691166: Betty works in regional shipping. She has to calculate when a load will arrive at its destination. She knows that the ship travels at 15 mph when under load and 20 mph when empty. The ship leaves the port empty at 12:00 PM and arrives at its destination at 3:00 PM. It takes an hour to fully load the ship and depart back to the originating port. What time will the fully loaded ship return to the originating port?
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Question 691219: How long would it take a train traveling 110 mph to get from downtown NY City to downtown Chicago?
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Question 691238: the distance between A and B is 80km a train from A is going towards B with a speed of 60 km/hr and a train comes from point B towards a with a speed of 100km/hr where is point C if they will meet at the same time?
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Question 691299: I need help with this problem: Chris bikes a steady speed of 9 feet/second. Mark bikes a steady speed of 12 feet/second. If Chris gets a 75 second head start, how many feet will Mark have to bike until he catches up to Chris? Type your answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth. --- I know how to start it with the equation chris: 9(timechris)= distance and mark: 12 (time mark)= d and then I get lost. Not sure if someone can help me or not, but I sure hope so!Thanks in advance!
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Question 691317:

THE TRAFFIC OFFICER CLOCKED THE CARS AT 45MPH, 37MPH, 34MPH, AND 40MPH, WHAT IS THE AVERAGE SPEED?

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Question 691627: a train moves with a speed of 120 km per hour.what is the distance travelled
by the train in one minutes?
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Question 691969: I REALLY really need your help on this problem; the homework that this is on is due tomorrow and I have absolutely NO clue on where to start.
'You are riding in car 1 and your best friend is riding car 2. Both cars leave from your house and are heading to a birthday party 100 miles away. Both cars are wired with distance bombs. If the bombs get more than 30 miles apart, they will explode. If the cars continue at the rate the are going (car 1 is 60 miles per hour, car 2 is 40 miles per hour), will you and your friend make it to the party??'
Thank you so much to whomever solves this/ helps me on this!! :)
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Question 692042: 15km/hr to 60km/hr going to north of east direction in 20 seconds.
a.)what is the average speed in km/hr and m/s?
b.)what is the average velocity in m/s?
please help me to solve.
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Question 692018: please help me with this problem. a motorboat with the current went 54mi in 3 hours. against the current, it took 3.6 hours to travel the same distance. find the rate of the boat in calm water and the rate of the current.
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