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Question 110306: Two cars leave a restaurant at the same time and travel in opposite directions. At the end of 3 hours, they are 300 miles apart. Find the rate of the slower car if one car travels at a rate 20 miles per hour faster than the other. I know the equation r=d/t, but how do you plug the info in when there are two parts. Thanks for your help!
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Question 110388: The Toyota Camry gets 322 miles of city driving on 14 gallons of gasoline. What is the average number of miles expected per gallon-that is, what is it gas mileage.
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Question 110384: Ok, so town A and town B are 100 miles apart. Car A is leaving from town A and traveling 60mph, and car B is leaving from town B and traveling 50mph. How long before they collide? I know it has something to do with the D=r*t formula...I'm just not sure how to figure this one out. Thanks!
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Question 110465: There is a pole in a lake. One half of the pole is in the ground, another one third of it is covered with water, and 10ft is out of water. What is the total length of the pole in ft?
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Question 110491: Nancy can paint a house twice as fast as Terry can. They year they worked together it took them 7 days. How long would it take each to paint the house alone?
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Question 110487: The Gold River's current is 6 mph. A boat travels 50 miles downstream in the same time that it takes to travel 30 miles upstream. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 110570: Pablo is driving 40 miles per hour. After he has driven 30 miles, his brother Ricardo starts driving in the same direction. At what rate must Ricardo drive to catch up with Pablo in 5 hours?
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Question 110671: A car travels on the freeway at an average speed of 66 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 3 hours and 40 mintues?
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Question 52500: Junior's boat will go 15 miles per hour in still water. If he can go 12 miles downstream in the same amount of time as it takes to go 9 miles upstream, then what is the speed of the current?
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Question 110877: The radius of the earth at the equator is approximately 4000 miles. Suppose a jet flies once around the earth at a speed of 500 miles an hour relative to earth. If the flight path is a negligible height above the equator, give the number of hours of flight.
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Question 110986: An ultralight plane had been flying for 40 min when a change in wind direction doubled its ground speed. The entire trip of 160 mi took 2 h. How far did the plane travel during the first 40 min?
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Question 110890: a cargo plane flew to the maintenance facility and back it took one hour less time to get there than it did to get back. the average speed on the trip there was 220mph the average speed on the way back was 200mph how many hours did the trip take
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Question 110987: Kelley's boat goes 12mph. Find the rate of the cureent of the river if she can go 6mi upstream in the same amount of time she can go 10mi downstream.
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Question 110994: In a race, Car A starts 1 mile behind Car B. Car A is traveling at 55 mph, while Car B is traveling at 40 mph. How long will it take for Car A to overtake Car B?
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Question 111163: Meseret Defar of Ethiopia won the women's 5000-m race in the 2004 Olympics with a time of 14.761 min. What was her rate (to three decimal places)?
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Question 111165: A boat can go 20 mi against a current in the same time that it can go 60 mi with the current. The current is 4 mph. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 111213: I can get about half way on this need a little assistance completing.
Problem is.....
Two airplanes are leaving O'Hare at the same time, one bound for New York and the other for California. The one heading to Califorina as a tail wind and is thus going 25 MPH faster than the one headed to New York. If after one hour they are 575 miles apart, what are their speeds?
What I have so far.....
x^2+y^2=575^2,x^2(x^2+25)^2=575^2,x^2+x^2=50x+625=330,625
2x^2+50x-330,000=0, But i can not get any further and I am not sure if I did what I have so far right. Can you help please??? Thank you SO MUCH!!!
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Question 111173: Connie McNair's boat goes 12 mph. Find the rate of the current of the river if she can go 6 mi upstream in the same amount of time she can go 10 mi downstream.
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Question 111172: An airplane maintaining a constant airspeed takes as long to go 450 mi with the wind as it does to go 375 mi against the wind. If the wind is blowing at 15 mph, what is the speed of the plane in still air?
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Question 111446: Hello
While traveling at a constant speed in a car, the cintrifical acceleration passengers feel while the car is turning varies inversly as the radius of the turn. if the Passengers feel an acceleration of 9 feet per second when the radus of the turn is 60 feet, find the acceleration the passengers feel when the radius of the tun is 180.
HELP ME PLEASE!!!
Algebra1
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Question 111642: This is the question: Science and medicine. A bicyclist rode into the country for 5 h. In returning, her speed was 5 mi/h faster and the trip took 4 h. What was her speed each way?
For some reason and I am stumped. I don't know if I'm not reading it correctly, or if I'm missing information.
Can you help?
Thanx, Gerri

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Question 111616: A student walks and jogs to college each day. She averages 5km/h walking and 9km/h jogging. The distance from home to college is 8kn, and she makes the trip in 1 hr. How far does the student jog?
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Question 111750: Could you please help me with the following problem. Thank you in advance.
An overzealous student burns the candle at both ends. One night he lights
the top and the bottom of a 10 inch candle at the same time. If the top
flame burns at a speed of 1.4 in/hr. and the bottom flame burns at a rate
of 2.1 in/hr., how far from the top do the flames meet?

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Question 111856: A small model plane travels 5 miles with the wind in the same amount of time as it takes to go 2 miles against the wind. The plane can travel 3 miles per hour in still air. Find the speed of the wind.
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Question 111836: Science and medicine. A plane flies 720 mi against a steady 30-mi/h headwind
and then returns to the same point with the wind. If the entire trip takes 10 h, what is the plane’s speed in still air?

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Question 111855: A boat goes 6 miles per hour in still water. It takes as long to go 40 miles upstream as it does to go 80 miles downstream. Find the speed of the current.
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Question 111835: Science and medicine. A passenger train can travel 325 mi in the same time a freight train takes to travel 200 mi. If the speed of the passenger train is 25 mi/h faster than the speed of the freight train, find the speed of each.
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Question 111881: Could you please help me solve this problem. Thank you in advance.

An object moved in one direction for 8 seconds at a constant speed. It
reversed direction for 3 seconds with its rate doubled and then reversed
direction again for 1 second at 40% of its initial speed. Find the three
speeds if the object was 9.6 m from its start at the end of 12 seconds.

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Question 111882: Could you please help me solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

In a Grand Prix automobile race, Rapid Robert averaged 90 mph for the
first half of the course and 110 mph for the second half of the course.
Steady Eddy maintained a constant speed of 100 mph throughout the race.
Who won the race?

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Question 111934: This is a science and medicine.
A bicyclist rode into the country for 5h. In returning , her speed was 5mi/h faster and the trip took 4h. What was her speed each way?
Would the answer be 20mi/h and 25mi/h?
Thank you,
Barb Neely
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Question 111939: At 6:00 A.M. a Pony Express rider leaves San Antonio for Las Cruces. His horse travels at 10 miles per hour. A second Pony Express Rider leaves at 9:00 A.M. with the sole purpose of giving an additional package for the first Pony Express rider to deliver. The second rider�s horse travels at 18 miles per hour. At what time will the second Pony Express rider catch up to the first Pony Express rider.
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Question 112137: two ships leave a harbor traveling on courses that have an angle of 120 degrees between them. if they each travel 515 miles how far apart are they (to the nearest mile)?
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Question 112208: Two cars leave town at the same time going in opposite directions. One of them travels at 55 mph and the other at 65 mph. In how many hours will they be 150 miles apart?

Thank you for your help... i'm not to sure how to get this problem started.
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Question 112216: A rectangular swimming pool is 4ft longer than it is wide. It is surrounded by a deck 3ft wide. Find the dimensions of the pool if the area of the deck is 264ft^2.
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Question 112317: An express train and a local train leave Gray�s Lake at 3 P.M. and head for Chicago 50 miles away. The express travels twice as fast as the local and arrives 1 hour ahead of the local. Find the speed of each train.
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Question 112335: A family makes a 43.25 km trip in 5.5 hours. On the first part of the trip they crossed a lake in a canoe paddling at 12 km/h. For the rest of the trip, they hiked on a scenic trail. If their average walking speed was 5 km/h, how far did they walk?
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Question 112212: Duane DeSink drove his car to the farm at 54 mph. He returned home by motorcycle at 36mph. The entire trip took 4 hours. How far was the farm from Duane's home?
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Question 112211: a train leaves a station and travels east at 72km/h. three hours later a second train leaves on a parallel track and travels at 120km/h. When will the second train overtake the first train?
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Question 112210: a train leaves a station and travels east at 72km/h. three hours later a second train leaves on a parallel track and travels at 120km/h. When will the second train overtake the first train?
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Question 112477: Flying with the wind a plane flew 1800 mi. in 3 hours. Against the wind, the plane required 5 hours to fly the same distance. Find the rate of the plane in calm air.
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Question 112556: Two cars start at one point and travel in the same direction at average speeds of 40 miles per hour. How much time must elapse before the two cars are 5 miles apart?
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