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Question 738577: Hi,I was wondering if you could help me with this problem. I'm having trouble going through the steps. Thank you so much in advance!
t a diving competition, divers will jump off a 64-foot high cliff. The diver's height above the water, at time t, is given by the equation h = -16t squared + 64. How long will it take the diver to hit the water and have a height of 0?
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Question 738603: a boat is traveling at 15 mph in still water. How far will it travel in 1/2 hour
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Question 738645: driving at 48 miles per hour,how many minutes will take to drive 32 miles
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Question 738657: You can travel 40 mi on your motorbike in the same time it takes your friend to travel 15 mi on his bicycle. If your friend rides his bike 20 mi/h slower than you ride your motorbike, find the speed for each bike.
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Question 738681: The formula D=0.054x^2+0.058x describes the distance in feet D that it takes to stop a vehicle traveling x miles per hour on dry pavement.
A. How fast can you drive if you wish to be able to stop your car within 65 feet?
B. On black ice, a trucks stopping distance is 2 times its stopping distance on dry pavement. A truck traveling 20 miles per hour applies the brakes, on black ice, at a distance of 65 feet in front of a rubber traffic cone. Will the truck hit the cone?
C. A motorboat heads upstream a distance of 24 miles on a river with current running 3 miles per hour. The trip up and back takes 6 hours. Assuming the motorboat maintained a constant speed relative to the water, what was it's speed?
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Question 738838: Your boat goes 20 MPH full throttle. You are going downstream at full throttle, 20 MPH. The river is flowing at 10 MPH. The river is straight and there is a straight road beside the river. How fast will a car have to travel to keep up with the boat? 20 MPH or 30 MPH?
Thanks
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Question 738877: You are in Jacksonville which is 200 miles from home. Using �R� as the average rate of speed you are traveling, translate this problem into an algebraic expression that will give amount of time needed to get home
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Question 739097: Buses to the stadium leave every 12 minutes. Buses to he zoo leave every 15 minutes. Both buses left at 7pm. Use prime factorization to find when the buses will leave again at the same time. I need help explaining this problem to my daughter. Thank you
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Question 739132: Running at an average rate of 6 meters per
second, a sprinter ran to the end of a track. The sprinter then
jogged back to the starting point at an average rate of 2 meters
per second. The total time for the sprint and the jog back was
2 minutes 40 seconds. Find the length of the track.
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Question 739213: A kayak moves at a rate of 10 mph in still water. If the river current flows at a rate of 2 mph, how long does it take to travel 25 miles?

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Question 739330: mark travels 149 miles in 3 hours. 60 would be his?
A. Average velocity
B. average acceleration
C. Instantaneous velocity
D. Instantaneous acceleration
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Question 739416: Sarah drove her boat at 5 miles per hour for 45 minutes and at 4 miles per hour for 30 minutes. What was the total distance, in miles, that Sarah drove her boat?
A)2 miles
B)5 3/4 miles
C)9 miles
D)16 1/2 miles
I don't understand how to do this? Can you help?
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Question 739431: A motorboat heads upstream a distance of 24 miles on a river with current running 3 miles per hour. The trip up and back takes 6 hours. Assuming the motorboat maintained a constant speed relative to the water, what was it's speed?
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Question 739480: A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of a tower to be 30o. He walks 85m nearer the tower and finds its angle of elevation to be 60o. What is the highest of the tower?
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Question 739446: A package delivery company has determined that they can meet their schedules if they have 4 drivers for every 30 square miles of area they cover. If they want to offer service to a county of 75 square miles, how many drivers must they have?
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Question 739544: What distance can Bert drive in 12 hours if he average 50 miles per hour?
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Question 739535: Two cars travel in opposite direction for 3hrs.after 3hrs they are297 miles apart.one car is 3 miles per hour faster than the other, what is the speed ofceach car?
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Question 739436: The formula D=0.054x^2+0.058x describes the distance in feet that it takes to stop a vehicle traveling x miles per hour on dry pavement.
How fast can you drive if you wish to be able to stop your car within 65 feet?
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Question 739623: If a horse breezes 11. flat with a headwind of 24 mph what is the real time w/o head wind?
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Question 739723: It takes a groundskeeper 40 minutes to prepare a Little League baseball field for a game. It takes his assistant 55 minutes to prepare the same field. How long will it take if they work together to prepare the field?
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Question 739725: Sally can clean the house in 8 hours, her father can clean the house in 6 hours, and her younger brother, Dennis, can completely mess up the house in 10 hours. If Sally and her father clean and Dennis plays, how long will it take to clean the house?
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Question 739724: At the end of an amusement park ride, a boat lands in a pool, splashing out a lot of water. Three inlet pipes, each working alone, can fill the pool in 8 seconds, 12 seconds, and 16 seconds, respectively. How long would it take to fill the pool if all three inlet pipes are used?
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Question 739721: A boat can cruise at 40 mph in still water.
(a) What is its cruising speed upstream against a current of 8 mph?
(b)What is its cruising speed downstream with a current of 8 mph?
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Question 739682: If you drive to Austin, Texas (300 miles) in 5 hours, but the return trip takes 7 hours. What is your average speed for the trip?

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Question 739722:
A homeowner estimates that it will take him 13 days to roof his house. A professional roofer estimates that he could roof the house in 6 days. How long will it take if the homeowner helps the roofer?
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Question 739815: Mary worked a total of 16 1/2 hours during 5 days of the past week. What was her average work day?
1. 3 hours
2. 3 hours, 15 minutes
3. 3 hours, 18 minutes
4. 3 hours, 25 minutes
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Question 739865: if a person walks at a speed of 5 km per hour how far will the person walk in 90 minutes
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Question 739853: a man walks for some distance at 8 km/hr,and for an equal distance at 5 km/hr,the total time he takes is 3/4 hours.find the distance he had walked together?
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Question 739883: A barge can travel 45 miles downstream in the same time it takes to travel 30 miles upstream. If the speed of the barge in still water is 15 miles per hour, what is the speed of the current?
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Question 739778: Bob traveled a total of 20km by running and walking. One third of the distance he walked equaled one half of the distance he ran. How far did he walk?
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Question 739840: a man had a a bag of sweets.he gave to his son one sweet and 1/7 of the remainning sweets.from what was left he gave to his daughter two sweets and 1/7 of the remainnig sweets.the two children found that they had the same numbers of sweets how many sweets were there in the orignal bag?
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Question 739954: find the average speed of a motorcyclist if he drives from A to B with a uniform speed of 30kmph and returns back with a speed of 20kmph.
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Question 739960: a farmer keeps hens and rabbits in his farm.one day he counted a total of 70 heads and 196 legs.how many more hens does he has then rabbits?
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Question 740079: In driving the usual route to school, a student computes his average speed to be 30 km/hr. In a hurry to get home that afternoon, he wants to average 60 km/hr for the round trip. What would his average speed for the return trip over the same route have to be in order to do this ? My professor said it is harder than you think! Thank you so much!
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Question 740115: eric averaged 50 MPH traveling from denevr to minneapolis. Returning by a different route that covered the same number of miles, he averaged 55 mph. what is his distance between the two cities if hid total travel time was 32 hrs?
going: r=50 t=x
returning: r=55 t=32-x
i dont know how to even begin.
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Question 740215: My vehicle gets 12 miles to a gallon, if i drive for 9 minutes at 35 miles a hour how much gas do i use and how much does it cost in gas doing this for 4 of the same trips at 2.60$ a gallon? (We're going to pretend there is no stop lights or anything just constant speed/driving)
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Question 740204: if a ball is traveling 80 feet at 35 mph how long will it take to reach the destination?
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Question 740252: Sam runs 5 miles in 45 minutes. If Sam runs at the same rate, how far can he run in 135 minutes?
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Question 740253: Two people start walking around a track. One is walking at 4 mph, the other is walking at 2.5 mph. When will the faster one pass the slower one?
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Question 740266: emma walks to school at a speed of 3 miles per hour. if it takes her 20 minutes to walk from home to school, how many miles aways is the school from her house
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Question 740364: Write two equations in two variables and solve.
A motorboat traveling with the current went 72 miles in 4 hours. Going against the current, it took 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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Question 740467:
U are traveling in a car at 60mph and you have driven for 8 hours with 2 stops of 15 minutes each. How far have you gone
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