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Question 758858: A person takes a trip, driving with a constant speed 94 km/h except for a 80 min rest stop. If the person's average velocity is 78 km/h, how far is the trip? Answer in units of km.

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Question 758967: If a car travels 60 km in 4 hours what speed is the car doing?
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Question 759018: Let's take a trip along this highway. This time let's start at Mile Marker 50 and drive east at 50mph for 2 hours. Stop, turn around and travel due West at 60 mph for 2 hours. After stopping to rest for 1 hour, drive east at 50 mph for 1 hour.
Time Mile Marker
0 hour 50
1 hours ________
2 hours __________
3 hours ___________
4 hours ___________
5 hours __________
6 hours___________
Plot a graph of "mile marker vs. time" Call this Graph #3
c) What is the slope of the line on your Graph #3 for the first 2 hours of this trip? Show how you arrived at your answer.
__________________________
d) What is the slope of the line for the second two hours of the trip? _________
Show how you arrived at your answer.
e) What is the slope of the line on your graph for the hour during which you rested? _____________
f) Approximately how long would it take you to arrive back at your Mile Marker 50? _____________________
Show how you arrive at your answer.
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Question 759026: If Sam has two apples and gives Bob 1 while riding on a train going 50 mph, what time is it in Seattle
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Question 759057: A bicyclist and a hiker leave the same place at the same time and travel in the same direction. The bicyclist travels three times as fast as the hiker. At the end of 3hr they are 24 miles apart. How fast does the hiker travel?
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Question 759073: It takes a boy 45 minutes to mow the lawn, but his sister can mow it in 90 minutes. How long would it take them to mow the lawn if they worked together, using two lawn mowers?
___ min
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Question 759067: A person traveling 4 hr by plane and 25 hr by ship covers 1580 miles. If the speed of the plane had been one-half of the actual speed and the speed of the ship had been one-fourth greater, the person would have traveled only 1315 miles in the same length of time. Find the speeds of the plane and the ship.
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Question 758701: A ship travelled 8100km from the port. At that moment,a jet plane whose speed is 10 times the speed of ship took off from the port. After travelling how much didtance will the plane overtake the ship ?
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Question 759082: 40 miles per hour, how many minutes would it tke to trvel 12 mile?
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Question 759197: If a car is going 70km/h, how many km is it going in one second?
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Question 759257: automobile is moving at speed 25 km/hr how fast is it moving units of meters per minute?
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Question 759014: The time it takes to travel a fixed distance varies inversely as the rate of travel. If a car can cover a certain distance in 7 hours at 40 miles per hour, how fast would one need to travel in order to cover the distance in 4 hours?
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Question 759069: two straight paths,inclined to one another at 60 degrees,interesct at a point o.A boy A is on one path 300m from O while a boy B is on the other path 400m from O.angle AOB=60 degrees.Simultaneously the boys begin to run towards O,A with speed 15 kmh-1 and B with speed 12 kmh-1 What is the shortest distance between the two boys?
I calculated Va-Vb=360.6
I couldn't calculate the shortest distance (l) as I do not know the angle between Ab and Va-Vb,
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Question 759362: Ship 1 is traveling 24 mph and is 2 hours ahead of Ship 2. How long would it take ship 2 to catch up with Ship 1 if Ship 2 is going 32 mph and the distance between them is 6,911 miles?
I tried my best at this problem but not getting the right answer.
I had 24T=32(T-2)
24T=32-64
64/8=8T/8
T=8 hours and that is how far I got.
Thank you for your help.
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Question 759410: a bus decreases its speed from 80km hr inverse to 60km hr inverse in 5sec . find the acceleration of the bus

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Question 759409: Suppose you travel at an average rate of 30 miles per hour. Which equation would you use to find the time (t) it takes to travel 575 miles?
575t = 30
t = 30/ 575
t/575 = 30
30t = 575
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Question 759413: a hertz rental car traveling for six hours overtakes a hertz rental van that has been traveling for 7.5 hours. If the car is driving 15 mph faster than the van, how far away from the hertz rental place are they
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Question 759464: A car travels at 500km/hr. How far would it travel in 2 1/2 hours?
The answer that is given is 187 1/2. I am not getting this. This is a problem on rational numbers and the concept of distance=speed*time has not been taught yet.
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Question 759443: felix rode 18 miles downstrem and back to the same place where he started, in 3 hours and 12 minutes. find the rate of felix in still water if the velocity of the stream is 3 miles per hour
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Question 759550: a car travels 50 km in 45 minutes and 30 km in 20 minutes find the average speed of the car in the first 50 km

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Question 759552: Two trains are on the same track going in opposite directions. One is traveling at 55 mph and the other is traveling at 45 mph and they are 250 miles apart. How long until they hit?

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Question 759611: : An airplane flies 594 miles with a 30-mph tailwind and then flies back into the 30-mph wind. If the time for the round trip was four hours, find the speed of the airplane in calm air.

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Question 759698: Flying against the wind, a jet travels 6570 in 9 hours. Flying with the wind, the same jet travels 3570 in 3 hours. What is the rate of the jet in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 759758: In going from one city to another,a car travels 75 km north west and 20 km east. The approximate distance b/w two cities is?
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Question 759731: The height of a rocket, in feet above the ground, t seconds after it was launched is given by the expression 25 + 150t - 16t 2 second power. How many feet above the ground is the rocket 3 seconds after it was launched?
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Question 759776: if a cycle travels at 20 km/hr and a car travels at 20 km/hr. who will cover the more distance?
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Question 759749: How far have you traveled if you drove 59 mph for 5-1/2 hours.
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Question 759782: One train done distance of 60km at 60km per hour. and return time same distance but speed is 40km per hoour. what is the average speed of the train?
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Question 759621: An express bus travels a certain 320km route in 1hr less time than it takes a local buss to travel a 300km route. Find the speed of each bus if the speed of the local is 20km/h less than that of the express.
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Question 759788: A person can walk a certain distance and drive back in six hours. he can also walk both ways in 10 hours. how much time will he take to drive both ways?
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Question 759848: The speed s of a vehicle is inversely proportional to the time t it takes to travel a fixed distance. If a vehicle travels a fixed distance at 10 miles per hour in 45 minutes, how fast mist it travel to cover the same distance in 30 mintues?
15 mph
3/20 mph
20/3 mph
135 mph
Thanks for your help
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Question 759864: What number is 3/4 of the way from -11 to -3?
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Question 759862: A motorist travels 120 miles from Antwerp to Brussels at an average of 40 mph. She returns over the same road at X mph. Her average rate for the whole trip is 48 mph. What is the value of X?
I have been working on this problem for a while and I have no idea how to solve it. Help is dearly apreciated! :)
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Question 759907: Will you help me figure out where to start with this problem,
Two cars leave salt lake city, traveling in opposite directions one car travles at a speed of 80km/h and the other at 96km/h. In how many hours will they be 528km apart?
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Question 759942: A truck heads north at a constant speed of 80 km/h. A car leaves 20 minutes
later heading north along the same road and travelling at a constant speed of
90 km/h.

Write an equation that could be used to determine how much time in
hours, t, the car travels until it catches up to the truck.
**The correct answer is 90t = 80(t+1/3) , but I need help understanding why**
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Question 760016: Julie took 2 hours longer to drive 600 miles on the first day of a trip than she took to drive 500
miles on the second day. If her speed was the same both days, what was the driving time for
each day?
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Question 760024: A boat takes a trip upriver against the current in 6 hours. Coming back down river, the boat
can travel 6 mph faster and makes the trip in 4 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still
water?
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Question 760025: At 9am, David left New Orleans for Tallahassee, averaging 47 mph. Two hours later, Gloria
left Tallahassee for New Orleans along the same route, driving 5 mph faster than David. If the
two cities are 391 miles apart, at what time did David and Gloria meet?
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Question 759959: When driving 18 miles, how much time would you save if you drove 60 mph instead of 55 mph? And what is the equation for this problem?
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Question 760110: How far will a nut advance with 15 turns of a 1/4 inch -20 nc (national coarse thread)
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Question 760122: a car can travel 530 miles on 20 gallons. how far can the car travel on 34 gallons?
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Question 760137: How long will it take a train traveling at 155 mi/hr to travel 234 miles?
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