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Question 700209: Two cities are 345 miles apart. A car leaves one of the cities traveling toward the
second city at 65 miles per hour. At the same time, a bus leaves the second city at 50
miles per hour. How long will it take for them to meet?I just need the equation.
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Question 700261: There is a car fire at the intersection of State and Lake. This intersection is 4 miles away from the local firehouse. Due to rush hour traffic, the fire truck is only able to travel an average of 12 mph. what is the minimum amaount of time it will take the fire truck to reach the car fire?
please write out how you got the answer
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Question 700316: How many kilometers per hour is the same as 13,000 miles per hour?
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Question 700208: Two planes leave BWI at the same time and fly in the same directions. Their speeds
are 520 miles per hour and 630 miles per hour. How far apart will the planes be after 1.5 hours?I just need the equation to set it up
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Question 700292: a man rows his boat up a river at a constant speed
when opposite a cabin on the shore, he drops a bottle in the water,
he continues rowing upstream for 15 minutes then he turns around and rows downstream until he catches up with the bottle, at which point he is 1 mile downstream from the cabin
how fast is the river flowing?

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Question 700031: A fright train passes the Old Towne train station at 11:00 A.M. going 30 mph. Ten minutes later, a passenger train, headed in the same direction on an adjacent track, passes the same station at 45 mph. At what time will the passenger train catch the fright train?
My book gives an answer as 11:30 A.M., but I get another answer. Can you help, please? Thank you in advance.
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Question 700519: Rick is traveling 40 mph in his car. After 3 hours, how far will he have traveled?
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Question 700545: How fast would I need to be traveling to travel 110ft in .05 microseconds?
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Question 700341: At 2:45pm you are 112 miles from Dallas. You want to be in Dallas at 4:30pm. What is the average speed you must travel to be on time?
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Question 700601:

if it takes 1 hour to travel 2/3 mile, how long will it take to travel 1 1/2 miles
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Question 700597: an airplane flew at an average speed of 410 miles per hour for 2.5 hours. how far did the plane fly?
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Question 700663: Describe the distance in meters you could walk in a given number of seconds?

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Question 700664: Dora rode her bike 5 miles to her grandmothers house. The ride took 30 minutes. On average, how many minutes did it take Dora to ride each mile?

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Question 700723: If two cars leave Las Vegas,one traveling east and the other west.after 3 hours they are 297 miles apart.If one car is traveling 5 mph faster than the other, what is speed of two cars
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Question 700771: Jerry traveled 110 miles in his car at a constant rate of 22 miles per hour. How many hours did he travel?

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Question 700772: Hammad Drove 8 Hours From His Home To A City 520 Miles Away. At What Average Speed Did He Travel?
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Question 700765: a 225 mile train ride took 3 hours. what is the rate in miles per minute
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Question 700756: If Sally walked 1⁄2 mile in 1⁄6 hour, how fast was she walking?
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Question 700777: Suzie can read an average of 15 pages in 30 minutes. Which equation could she use to determine how many hours, h, it will take her to read a book with 360 pages?
A. 360 = 2h
B. 360 = 30h
C. h = 360(30)
D. h = 360(2)
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Question 700760: a man travels a certain distance at a rate of 75mph and then returns over the same route at 100 mph. What is his average of the roundtrip?

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Question 700776: Dustin drives 5 mph faster than Kelly. If he leaves town one hour after Kelly and they travel in opposite directions, they will have driven equal distances after Dustin has traveled seven hours. How far apart are they?
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Question 700867: A boy walked on saturday 1 1/2 miles longer then he did on Sunday. He walked a total of 8 miles. How many miles did he walk on Saturday?

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Question 700882:
a train arrives in the station at 0420 hrs o thursday morning , after a journey lasting 7hrs 40 mins. When did it start the journey?
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Question 700936: vehicle a and vehicle b are 10 mi apart.vehicle a travels 20 mph. vehicle b travels 30 mph. veh a travels perpindicular to a line between veh a and veh b. both vehs start at same time. veh b must intercept veh a in shortest distance. what is the distance?
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Question 700993: The car drove 8 miles in 12 minuets. what was the car's speed?
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Question 700993: The car drove 8 miles in 12 minuets. what was the car's speed?
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Question 701023:
Two planes leave an airport at the same time. One is flying south at 450 mph, and the other if lying north at 675 mph. When will they be 3600 miles apart?
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Question 701024:
A Car Travels For X Hours At Speed Of (x+2)km/h.if The Distance Travelled Is 15km.rite Do An Equation Of X
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Question 701024:
A Car Travels For X Hours At Speed Of (x+2)km/h.if The Distance Travelled Is 15km.rite Do An Equation Of X
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Question 701005:
For the hockey tournament, two buses leave 20 minutes apart and travel along the same road. The first bus travels at 66km/h and the later bus, 77km/h. How long will it take before the later bus catches up?
(I know the answer : 2 hours, but I don't know how to show my work. I know it involves something like how much the first bus travelled before the later bus. { 11km })
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Question 700832: Summer drove at an average speed of 35 mi/h from her home in Dallas to visit her sister in Minneapolis. She stayed in Minneapolis 20 hours, and on the trip back averaged 45 mi/h. She returned home 50 hours after leaving. How many miles is Dallas from Minneapolis?
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Question 701018: A plane leaves Chicago headed for Los Angeles at 520 mph. One hour later, a second plane leaves Los Angeles headed for Chicago at 690 mph. If the air route from Chicago to Los Angeles is 1800 miles, how long will it take (after the first plane takes off) for the first plane to pass the second plane? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
How far from Chicago will they be at that time? (Round your answer to the nearest whole mile.)
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Question 701055: A race car driver drove his car for 3.2 hours at an average speed of 115 mph. How far did he travel? This problem you have to find the formula and solve it.
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Question 701070: an insect flies 20 feet in 1 second. How far does the insect fly in miles per hour?
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Question 701073: a man walks at a constant speed. in 5 hours he covers a distance of 40 kilometers. how many minutes does it take him to cover 2 kilometers.
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Question 701109: The formula M = 2 t is used to determine how many miles M you can travel if you drive at a constant rate 2 miles per minute and it takes you t minutes.

a) Determine how far you can travel in 13 minutes.

b) M = 2t , solve for t

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Question 701190:
a boat traveled 210 miles downstream and back. the trip downstream took 10 hours. the trip back took 70 hours. what is the speed of the boat in still water? what is the speed of the current?
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Question 701378: On a normal day, I can walk from my house to school in three quarters of an hour. The return trip takes me the same amount of time. My mom, driving our car, covers that distance in about a quarter of the time that it takes me. If I go to school five days a week and there are thirty-seven weeks in the school year, how many hours would I save every year if my mom agreed to drive me to and from school? Give your answer as a mixed number.

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Question 701380: John left school for home going 10km/h on his bike. Steve left 20 minutes later going 20km/h in order to catch up to John. How long did it take fore Steve to catch up to John
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Question 701449: A driver drove at a speed of 52 mph for z hours, how far did he go?

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Question 701444: Gina drove 600 miles in 12 hours. How many miles per hour was she traveling?
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Question 701410: you can travel 34 miles in 39 mins. you want to know the number of minutes you will need to go 52 miles if you travel at the same rate
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Question 701516: Jack walks at a constant speed of 80m/min. Find the distance he covers in 30 minutes.
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Question 701556: If I am traveling at a rate of 40 miles per hour, how far would I travel in 6 minutes?
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