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Question 731136: If the distance a train travels varies directly with the time the train travel,and if the train travels 51 miles in 45 minutes ,how far does the train travel in 2 hours

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Question 731160: hello i have a math question
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Question 731247: There 429 people at a play. Admission was $8 each for adults and $4.50 each for children. The total receipts were $2641. How many adults and how many children attended?

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Question 731312: If a jet flew 500 miles in 1 hour 15 minutes, what is the average speed?
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Question 731491: Jane leaves her house and drives in a straight line at a speed of 42 mph. Her speed on the return trip is 52 mph. The trip back home takes 15 minutes less than the outbound trip. What was Jane's total travel time in hours?
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Question 731514: pedro can drive 4 times as fast as luis can ride his bicycle. if it takes luis 3 hrs longer than pedro to travel 36 miles, how fast can luis ride his bicycle?

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Question 731508:
A car leaves at 9 A.M. from a city and drives 45 miles per hour. At 11 A.M. a truck leaves from the city and drives at a rate of 60 miles per hour. At what time will the truck catch up to the car?
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Question 731496: An ant is crawling at the rate of 20 centimeters per minute.
At that rate,how many minutes will it take the ant to crawl 90 centimeters?
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Question 731585: Two cyclists 65 miles apart start biking toward each other at the same time. One cyclist bikes 5 miles per hour faster than the other; assume they travel at constant speeds. If they meet 2 hours later, how fast is the faster cyclist traveling?
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Question 731453: the ballon rises up 8 feet per minute how far off the ground would it be at 1 hour and 30 minutes

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Question 731644: please help me solve a train traveled 22.5 miles in 25 minutes. At this rate , how far will it travel in 2 hours.
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Question 731646: Jenny can row 20 miles with the current in 2 hours, or 12 miles against the current in 3 hours. Find the rate of Jenny's boat in still water and the rate of the current.
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Question 731637: The sum of the speeds of two trains is 723.6 miles per hour. If the speed of the first train is 10.4 mph faster than the second train, find the speeds of each.
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Question 731938:

If i get 15mpg and i have 34 gallons how much would i have if I travel 200 miles?
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Question 731960: Two cyclists start biking from a trail's start 3 hours apart. The second cyclist travels at 10 miles per hour and starts 3 hours after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6 miles per hour. How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with the first from the time the second cyclist started biking?
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Question 731999: Paula took a total of 36 quizzes over the course of 4 weeks. After attending 10 weeks of school this quarter, how many quizzes will Paula have taken in total? Assume the relationship is directly proportional.
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Question 731946: You were about to hang one of your shirts on the clothsline found at the rooftop of your building but air blew it and it fell on the ground.
Use the formula d=16t^2

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Question 731947: You were about to hang one of your shirts on the clothsline found at the rooftop of your building but air blew it and it fell on the ground.
Use the formula d=16t^2 to find the solution of the two given problems

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Question 732013: A plane is flying the 2553mile trip from los Angeles to Holohulu into a 60 mph headwind.if the speed of the plane in still air is 310mph.How far from Los Angeles is the plane's point of no retutn
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Question 732118: a boat travels 2 miles upstream and 2 miles downstream in 5 hours. in still water, the boat travels 2 miles/hour.
1. what is speed of river's current?
2. how fast does it travel upstream?
3. how fast does it travel downstream?
4. how long does it take to travel downstream?
5. how long does it take to travel upstream?
Thank you. Gwen
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Question 732123: John and Mary leave their house at the same time and drive in opposite directions. John drives at 90 mi/h and travels 35 mi farther than Mary, who drives at 40 mi/h. Mary's trip takes 15 min longer than John's. For what length of time does each of them drive?
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Question 732143: A train running between two towns arrives at its destination 10 minutes late when it
goes 40 miles per hour and 16 minutes late when it goes 30 miles per hour. The
distance between the two towns is
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Question 732160: If someone is traveling at 43 km/hr, how long will it take them to travel 2 km
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Question 731943: A 340 meter long train is accelerating from rest at 6 meter/second square. With the start of motion, a man standing at the front end of the train, projects a ball upwards at a velocity of 50 meters/second. Do calculaions to decide if the ball will fall back on the train or will miss it.
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Question 731940: You learned in your science class that the approximate distance(in feet)that an object falls when dropped to earth can be determined by the formula d=16t^2,where t is the time (in seconds).
You were about to hang one of your shirts on the clothsline found at the rooftop of your building but air blew it and it fell on the ground.
a.If the distance of the rooftop from the ground is 64 ft,how long did it take for your shirt to reach the ground?
b.If your shirt took three minutes to reach the ground,what is the distance of the rooftop from the ground?
Use the formula d=16t^2 to find the solution of the two given problems .Write a clear,neat,and logical solution for each of the problems on a sheet of paper.Label and encircle your final answer.

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Question 731939: You learned in your science class that the approximate distance(in feet)that an object falls when dropped to earth can be determined by the formula d=16t^2,where t is the time (in seconds).
You were about to hang one of your shirts on the clothsline found at the rooftop of your building but air blew it and it fell on the ground.
a.If the distance of the rooftop from the ground is 64 ft,how long did it take for your shirt to reach the ground?
b.If your shirt took three minutes to reach the ground,what is the distance of the rooftop from the ground?
Use the formula d=16t^2 to find the solution of the two given problems .Write a clear,neat,and logical solution for each of the problems on a sheet of paper.Label and encircle your final answer.

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Question 731915: he traveled 45 miles in those 2 hours with a current of 10 mph flowing in the opposite direction. On the way back he rode the same 45 miles in 1 hour 35 min. What was his speed and how fast was he traveling if there was no current?s
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Question 732175: you drive 104 miles along a scenic highway and then take a 34-mile bike ride. your driving rate is 4 times your cycling rate. suppose you have no more than a total of 4 hours for driving and cycling. Let x represent your cycling rate in miles per hour. Use a rational inequality to determine the possible values of x.
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Question 732244: I'm driving at the speed of 30 mph and the point I need to get to is 3.9 miles away! How much time will it to get there?
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Question 732244: I'm driving at the speed of 30 mph and the point I need to get to is 3.9 miles away! How much time will it to get there?
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Question 732255:
On a certain river, a paddleboat travels 24 miles upstream (against the current) in the same amount of time it travels 40 miles down stream (with the current. If the current of the river is 4 miles per hour, determine the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 732281: Donna hikes 3 miles north and then 4 miles east. What is the length of the diagonal distance from where she started to where she ended?

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Question 732365: You run a trail at 7 mph and walk back at 3 mph. If your total time is 1.5 hours, your round-trip distance is how many miles?
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Question 732381: Find the average speed for this trip. Round you answer to the nearest mile per hour. Be sure to lable your answer with "mph"
Distance: 238 miles
Time: 5 hours, 24 minutes
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Question 732447: A private plain traveled from Seattle to the rugged wilderness, at an average speed of 156 mph.on the return trip the average speed was 182 mph if the total traveling time was 9 hours, how far was Seattle from the wilderness?
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Question 732448: A certain aircraft can fly 630 miles with the wind in 3 hours and travel the same distance against the wind in 7 hours. What is the speed of the wind?
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Question 732454: On a 560-mile trip, Andy averaged 5 miles per hour faster for the last 120 miles than he did for the first 440 miles. The entire trip took 10 hours. How fast did he travel for the first 440 miles?
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Question 732463: a boat has a speed of 9.0 km/hr, in still water and is traveling down a river with a current of 2.0 m/s. What will be its "riverbank" velocity going down and then upstream? At what angle would this boat have to travel across the river in order to move straight across? Thank you :D
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Question 732470: A girl walks 24 km at the speed of x km/hr and 40 km at the speed of y km/hr on 1st day. she walks total for 9 hrs on that day. on the next day she walks 18 km at the speed of x km/hr and 48 km at the speed of y km/hr. On that day also she walks for total 9 hrs.Find x and y?
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Question 732442: What time should I leave my house walking if it takes 24 minutes to get there walking I want to be there at 8:00 AM
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Question 732502: Your cousin, who is in University, is coming down and visiting you for Easter. He is driving from New York City to Buffalo. The distance between the two cities is 397 miles. If he drives at the speed of 50 miles an hour, how will it take him to reach you?
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Question 732524: the highway is 25km. a policeman drives the lenght of the highway 14 times, what distance did he drive in km.
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