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Question 695774:
On Monday, Roger drove to work in 38 minutes. On Tuesday, he averaged 10 miles per hour more, and it took him 5 minutes less to get to work. How far (in miles) does he travel to work?
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Question 696013: a van travels 280 miles on 14 gallons of gas. how many gallons are needed to travel 460miles
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Question 696141: A fisherman can row a boat 8 km downstream and return in 100 minutes.If the speed of the stream is 2 km per hour.Find the speed of the stream
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Question 696167: it takes 6 quarts of feul for a pilot to fly 1000 miles. How many quarts are needed for 2500 miles.
I found the answer. But I couldn't figure out how to put it into an equation
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Question 696222: An alien rocket ship is traveling at a speed of 27 mph. At this speed how many feet will it travel in 1 second? Round to the nearest thousandth.
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Question 696312: You can type 115 words in three minutes. About how many words can you type in seven minutes?
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Question 696356: Two men are driving. One is travelling 70 mph, and the other is travelling 98 mph. The faster one is 14 miles behind the one that is going 70 mph. How long will it take the faster one (98mph) to catch up to the slower one (70mph)?
--I tried the problem already and I got 1/2 an hour. I'm unsure though because I'm very uneasy with word problems. Thanks!
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Question 696204: If a biker goes on a 4 hour trip the first 3 hours he goes 50 Kilometers the last hour he goes 10 Kilometers what is his average speed
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Question 696431: if a car doing 80 klms p/h travelled 73.8 klms what was the average speed

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Question 696433: the question was if a car doing 80 klms p/h travelled 73.8 klms how long would the trip take please

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Question 696433: the question was if a car doing 80 klms p/h travelled 73.8 klms how long would the trip take please

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Question 696459: the distance between 100 and me is 57.what numbers can i be?what i the defference between the two numbers?

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Question 696486: Please help me solve this word problem: A man drove his car 132 miles before the water pump broke. Then the car was pushed 1 mile to a gas station. THe man could drive the car 12 times faster than it could be pushed. If the total trip took 3 hours, find how fast the car was pushed.
I must incorporate the formula r=d/t
Which out of the variables r,d,t are equal? It seems as though it is the d variable because the car could be pushed 1 mile or driven 1 mile. I do not understand how to set up this equation using rationals.
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Question 696500: WHAT PERCENT IS 4 OF 9?
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Question 696479: If I leave New York By car, heading to Iowa, where would I be at 7pm?

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Question 696570: An airplane is traveling at an average speed of 245 meters per second. How many kilometers per second is the plane traveling?

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Question 696370:
when a plane flies into the wind it can travel 3000 km in 6 hours. when it flies with the wind, it goes the same distance in 5 hours. find the rate of the plane in still air.
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Question 696510: A train travelling from Ay town to Bee town meets with an accident after 1 hour. The train is stopped for 30 minutes, after which it proceeds at four-fifths of its usual rate, arriving at Bee town 2 hours late. If the train had covered 80 miles more before the accident, it would have just been one hour late. What is the usual rate of the train?
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Question 696622:
A tugboat goes 100 miles upstream in 10 hours. The return trip down stream takes 5hours. Find the speed of the tug boat without a current and with a current.
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Question 696634: I can paddle a canoe upstream at 2 mph and downstream at 6 mph. How far upstream can I go if I want to return in exactly 4 hours?
Using D=R*T, I came up with 2x + 6(4 - x)=4 where x=hours traveling upstream; so x=5 hours (leads to wrong answer: 10 miles upstream, 9 miles downstream)
Using logic, I can see that the answer is 6 miles upstream (3 hours upstream, 1 hour back down.), but I can't figure out the right equation to get that. I think that the left portion of equation is correct, but not the 4 on the right.
(I am trying to relearn algebra and how to apply it 52 years after first having the class.)
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Question 696681: use the formula d=rt to find the value of the missing variable. d=88 feet, t=22 seconds
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Question 696685: The number N of state and federal inmates in millions during year x, where x>2002
can be approximated by the following formula N=0.05x-98.55 determine the year in which there were 1.6 million inmates. show work
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Question 696357: Use the verticle height formula to solve the following h= -16t^ + intitial velocity + initial height. A person throws a ball in the air with an initial height of 4 feet and an initial velocity of 40 feet per second. The person catches the ball when it is 3 feet from the ground. how much time is the ball in the air?
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Question 696737: A boat can travel with a speed of 15 km/hr in still water. it needs 4 more hours to travel 63km agains the current of a river than it needs to travel down the river find the speed of the river

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Question 696782: The general formula for the vertical asymptotes of y = cot x is::
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Question 696822: If I'm traveling at 45 mph, and I slow to zero mph in 74.4 feet, how much time would that take?

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Question 696831: Sam drove at a constant rate of 72 miles per hour on the interstate for 6 hours and 15 minutes.How many miles did he drive?
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Question 696832: A tortoise travelled 4096 m in week one. Each week, it travelled half as far as the previous week. In what week will the tortoise travel 4 m? I know what the answer is (11 week) because I used a caculator but I want to know what the "formula" or equation is. Something Like 2nx+1=y, Please help!
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Question 696949: If Oscar the ostrich travels 200 miles in 5 hours, how fast does he travel?

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Question 697042: if we was going five miles per hour and we had five mile left on out car journey how long left have we got??
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Question 697038: how far can a car travel in 40 minutes if it is traveling at an average speed of 50 miles per hour ?

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Question 697037: how far can a car travel in 40 minutes if it is traveking at a speed of 50 miles per hour?
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Question 697050:

how far can a car travel in 40 mintues if it is traveling at an average speed of 50 miles per hour ? show answer in miles

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Question 697056: a train travels a rate of 45 mph and covers a distance of 292.5 miles. how many minutes did the train travel?
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Question 697055: Two cars leave a gas station and head in the same direction. Car A travels at 35 mph, while car B travels at 45 mph. If Car B leaves two hours after Car A, how many miles from the gas station will Car B catch up to Car A?

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Question 697134: if your driving 55 mph how long will it take you to drive 200 miles ?
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Question 697119: a car travels a distance of 715 km at uniform speed.if the speed is increased by 10 km/hr the time taken is reduced by 2 hrs. what is the original speed.
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Question 697170: A police car receives a radio call to catch a vehicle the is speeding down the highway at 70mph. The police car, which is 14 miles behind the vehicle, drives after it at 98mph. How long will it take the police car to overtake the vehicle?
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Question 697120:
A car is going from city A to city B covers a distance of 30 km in half an hour. Find its average speed in km/h and m/s.
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Question 697278: If Mr. Norton walks for 2 miles and then cycles for 6 miles, it takes him 1 hr and 24 min to go the total distance of 8 miles....but if he walks for 5 miles and cycles for 3 miles the rates of walking and cycling being the same as before, the total time taken is 2 hr and 18 min. Find the rates of walking and cycling.
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Question 697309: A ball is thrown vertically upward. After t seconds, its height h (in feet) is given by the function .
h(t)=100t-16t^2
What is the maximum height that the ball will reach? Height= ? feet
Do not round your answer.
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