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Question 764734: 1-7 Jake's Problem.
Jake has a car with an 8-gallon fuel tank. Jake fills his tank with gas and then drives 60 miles to a friend's house. When he gets to his friend's house, he has 6 gallons left in his fuel tank. Write a program that uses three input elements to enter values for tank size, miles traveled and gallons left. The program should calculate and display how many miles Jake can drive on a full tank of gas. (Note: Be sure to use input elements to accept the values 8, 60, and 6 rather than hard coding them into your solution. Also be sure your output is descriptive and avoid doing multiple expressions within one assignment statement, keep it simple! )
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Question 764884: An airplane which travels 180 miles per hour leaves the airport 8.5 hours after a ship sailed. if it overtakes the ship in 1 hour and 30 minutes, find the rate of the ship.

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Question 764839: A boat traveled for 2 hr with a 12 mph current to reach a picnic area. the return trip against the same current took 6 hr. Find the speed of the boat in still water
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Question 765049: If I'm travelling 100 miles at 372.823 miles per hour, how long would it take before I reached my location?
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Question 765115: a and b can cover certain distance in 2hours 30 minutes,a can cover the same in 3hours 30 minutes,in how many hours b alone take to cover the same distance
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Question 765174: A car can travel 72 miles on 3 gallons of gasoline. How far can the travel on 5 gallons of gasoline.

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Question 765227: Kelsey drives to her sister�s house in 5 hours when there is heavy traffic. When there is no traffic, the same trip takes 4 hours. She can drive an average of 12 mph faster when there is no traffic than when there is heavy traffic. What is the distance from her house to her sister�s house?

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Question 765239: A ferry boat takes people up and down the river 40 miles between two towns. The boat travels downstream in 3/5 the time it takes to travel upstream. If the ferry boat can travel at 12 mph in still water, how fast is the current of the river? How fast does the boat travel upstream? Downstream?
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Question 765136: Pedro and Juan run at constant speeds along a circular track 1350 m in circumference. if they run in opposite directions, they meet every 3 minutes, while running in the same direction they are together every 27 minutes. Determine the speed of Pedro.
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Question 765295: The denominator of a fraction is 3 more than its numerator. If the numerator is multiplied by 3, the resulting fraction is 5/2 of the original fraction. Find the Original fraction.
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Question 765294: a motorist drove his car 200mi. If his speed has been 5 mph faster he could have saved 2hrs travel time, what was his speed?
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Question 765385: . Alan drove 720 miles and Paul drove 406 miles. Overall, how many miles did they travel?
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Question 765423: a train takes 7 hours to travel from station A to station B. if its speed is increased by 10 km/h, it will take 1 hour less to complete the journey.find the distance between two stations?
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Question 765422: When a car is moving 25 miles/hour, how many feet does it travel in 12 seconds?
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Question 765479: A car travels at an average speed of 52 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 5 hours and 30 minutes ?
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Question 765508: A plane flying with a tail wind flew at a speed of 460 mph, relative to the ground. When flying against the tailwind, it flew at a speed of 340mph. graph the system to find the speed of the plane in calm air and the speed of the tailwind
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Question 765526: A jet travels at an average speed of 200 miles per hour. At this rate, how many hours will it take the jet to travel 1,000 miles?
1000/200= 5 is this right
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Question 765528: Please help me solve this problem: A dog runs 200ft in 8 seconds. How fast is the dog running in miles per hour?
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Question 765525: A car travels 55 miles per hour and a plane travels 15 miles per minute.How far does the car travel when the plane travels 500 miles?
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Question 765438: Please Help! I am so stumped and confused! :) THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Gravitational Force according to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, the attraction force F between two bodies is given by:
F = G m1m2/r^2
Where m1,m2 are the masses of the two bodies:
r = distance between the two bodies
G = gravitational constant 6.6742 x 10^11
Newton's meter^2 kilogram^-2
Suppose and object is traveling directly from Earth to the moon. The mass of the Earth is 5.9742 x 10^24 kilograms the mass of the moon is 7.349 x 10^22 kilograms and mean distance from Earth to the moon is 384,400 kilometers. Set up and inequality that would answer this question: For an object between Earth and the moon, how far from Earth and the moon, how far from Earth is the force on the object due to the moon greater than the force on the object due to Earth? Simplify in equality until one side equals zero.
m1 = mass of Earth
m2= mass of surface of moon
r = distance between them
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Question 765613: If you travel 798 miles at an average speed of 95 miles per hour, what speed do you have to be going to average 95 miles per hour. Assuming you only stopped 3 times for 10 minutes each time.
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Question 765599: a car travels at a speed of 40 km/h for 2 hours and then at 60 km/h for 3 hours.What is the average speed of the car during the entire journey?
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Question 765644: A lorry travels 10km northwards,4km eastwards,6km southwards and 4km westwards to arrive at a point T. What is the total displacement?
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Question 765630: two athelets P and Q are running around a circular track of 1200m at speeds of 6mps and 3mps respectively.Both of them start from the same point in the same direction but P reverses his direction every time he completes one round.After how much time from the start will they meet for the first time?
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Question 765670: two boy on bicycles start from he same place at the same time.one cyclist travel 15 miles per hour, the other travel 12 miles per hour. if they travel in the same direction how many hours will it take before they are 9 miles apart

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Question 765549: a car starts from rest and travels towards a jeep. the jeep starts at the same time with the car and travels towards the car. the car and jeep are 10 km apart if the acceleration of the jeep and the car are 7 meters per second squared and 5 meters per secind squared respectively, when and where will they meet?
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Question 765757: Two cars start towards each other along a road between two cities that are 450 miles apart. The speed of the first car is 35 mph and that of the second is 45 mph. How much time will elapse before they meet?
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Question 724879: I need help on a math problem
hblkbkblhb stoney point. She can travel 25 miles via a rural route at 50 mph or a longer distance 75 mph along the interstate The eastern portion of the interstate is 5 miles less than the norhern portion of the interstate
How long (time) will it take carol to drive the rural route
How long (miles) will it take carol to drive if she takes the interstates
How long (time) will it take carol to drive the interstate route?
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Question 765852: This is my question:
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Question 765867: two cities are 2370 miles apart. a plane leaves one of them , traveling towards the other at an average speed of 380 miles per hour. at the same time a plane leaves the other, traveling towards the first, at an average speed of 410 miles per hour. how long will it take them to meet?
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Question 765894: bus travels 500 feet in 30 seconds how hast was the bus moving in mph

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Question 765811: If it takes 4 hrs to travel a 10km trail, how long would it take to travel a 6km trail?

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Question 765815: Two airplanes leave Chicago at the same time and fly in opposite directions. If one travels at 490 miles per hour and the other at 440 miles per hour, how long will it take for them to be 4,650 miles apart?
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Question 765938: a speeding boat travelled a distance of x km at a constant speed of 80km/h. an ocean liner travelled the same distance at 60 km/h. if the difference in time taken was 2 hours, calculate x.
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Question 765986: Bugsy has a piece of wood 9 feet 8 inches long. He wishes to cut it into 4 equal lengths. How far from the edge should he make the first cut?
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Question 765987: : passenger train having speed 29 km/h and a express train having speed 65 km/h. the express train crosses the passenger train in 16 seconds. what is the length of express train? give answer
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Question 766015: A train is moving at 150 miles per hour. Another train is moving in the same direction on a parallel track at 200 miles per hour. The trains are presently 300 miles apart. In how many hours will the second train catch up to the first train?
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Question 766042: If I travel 2 inches per year, how many years would it take me to travel 1 mile?

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Question 766096: A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8kph, five minute later, a second jogger start the same force at 10kph. How long will it take the second jogger to catch the first?
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Question 766091: If a person flew 4/5's the way, drove a 1/6 of the way and walked the last 5 miles, how far did they go?
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Question 766110: iram walk up to her school at speed 4 km/hour, it takes 45 min to reach school how far is her school from home ???
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Question 766123: speed of water in certain river is 6kmph and it takes a boat four times as long to row up as to row down the river. what is the speed of boat in still water?

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Question 766094: One plane can travel 20 miles per hour faster than another. One of them goes 450 miles in the same time it takes the other to go 420 miles. What are their speeds?
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