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Question 772568: If a dog slead team is going 30 miles per hour how many feet are they going per second
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Question 772483: Jim rides his bike 16 kilometers to school. If Jim average speed while riding to school is 12 kilometers per hour how long will it take him to Get to school
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Question 772577: If you drive 100 miles in 90 minutes how fast were you going
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Question 772587: consider a car at rest .it begins to move with acceleration of 3m/s^ 2 wht will be its velocity after 10 secs
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Question 772599: Martina is riding her bicycle. She rides kilometers in hours. What is her speed?
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Question 772455: a car drives 1/4 mi in 7.5 seconds. It's going 180 mph. What's the formula to get this speed?
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Question 772637: A car and a truck are 245 miles apart traveling towards each other until they meet. The car averages 65 miles per hour and the truck averages 55 miles per hour. The truck started one hour after the car. After how long do the two automobiles meet? How many miles will each automobile have traveled?
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Question 772736: Amy is on her way home in her car. She has driven 20 miles so far, which is four-fifths of the way home. What is the total length of her drive?
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Question 772781: A car moves at a uniform speed of 75km per hour. how much distance will it cover in 98 hrs
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Question 772763: a train goes at 96 km/h for 35 miniutes.
how far does it travel?

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Question 772796: A snail can move 8 inches in 11 minutes. At this rate, how many feet can it move in 33 hours?

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Question 772803: If you drive 1500 miles in two days. You travel 150 miles more than the 1st day how many miles did he drive the 2nd day
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Question 772837: The distance between dallas and beaumont is about 290 miles.Henry drove from dallas to beaumont at 58 miles per hour. How many hours did it take Henry to reach beaumont?
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Question 772723: A student drives from home to school at an average speed of 40 km/hr and returns home at an average speed of 60 km/hr. Find the average speed for the entire trip? Why is your answer not 50 km/hr?
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Question 772833: Two sisters who live 500 miles apart decide to meet at the halfway point for a visit. Joanne leaves at 11:00 and travels at 50 miles per hour. At noon, Sue leaves traveling 60 miles per hour. Who will reach the halfway point first, and how long will she have to wait for her sister?
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Question 772961: Jaypee and Vic started driving from the same point going in opposite directions. Their rates are 60 kph and 70 kph, respectively. After how many hours will they be 650 kilometers apart?
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Question 772960: Mila drives at 50 kph on her way to her office. Ten Minutes after she left, her husband who was still at home, discovers that she had left important papers. he tries to catch her before she gets to her office. If he drives at 70 kph, how long will he drive before he can catch up with her?
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Question 772975: airplane A travel 600 mile. airplane B travels 1000 miles, 50mph faster than airplane A and 1 hour longer. Find the speed of each plane.
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Question 772997: 25 mph 18 miles
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Question 773015: . On a stretch of road which is 75 km long, two trucks were approaching towards each other. Truck A was going at a speed of 40 km per hour while truck B was going at a speed of 80 km per hour. What was the distance between the two trucks just one minute before they passed each other?
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Question 773017: Your teacher has a total of 49 chalks. When a chalk reduces to 1/7 of its original size, it gets too small for her to hold for writing and hence she keeps it aside. But your teacher hates wasting things and so, when she realizes that she has enough of these small pieces to join and make another chalk of the same size, she joins them and uses the new chalkstick. If she uses one chalk each day, how many days would the 49 chalks last?
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Question 773027: A train moves at a constant speed of 60 km/hr toward a station 30 km away. At the moment, Fanny Fastbird leaves her perch on the locomotive and flies toward the station at a constant speed of 100 km/hr relative to the ground. When the bird reaches the station, she immediately turns around and flies back to the station, repeating the process until the train passes the station. What total distance is traveled by the bird?
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Question 772668: A certain bridge 11 km long connects city A in the south and city B in the north. The true bearing of a small boat is 120 degrees from A. The distance between the boat and A is 15 KM. Find the distance between the boat and B?
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Question 772806: the bus traveled x miles at miles per hour and still arrived 2 hours late. how fast should the bus have traveled to have arrived on time
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Question 773099: Daniel ran the distance from s to f in 9.72 seconds. calculate his average speed in m/s and km/h and the length of s to f is 6.5 cm

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Question 773178: if you travel 45 mph for 3.5 hours how far do you travel?
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Question 773245: Maria drove to her grandmother�s house at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. On the way home, she averaged 45 miles per hour. If she spent a total of 3 hours and 30 minutes driving, how many miles is the trip to her grandmother�s house?
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Question 773257: Michael drove to a friends house at a rate of 40 mph. He returned by the same route at a rate of 45 mph. The driving time for the round trip was 4 hours. What is the distance Michael Traveled?
Please explain how you got this answer.
Thanks
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Question 773263: Hello Tutor, may you please help me on the following problem?
The Delta Queen is a paddle-boat that tours the Mississippi River near New Orleans, Louisiana. It is not uncommon for the Delta Queen to run 7mph in still water and for the Mississippi to flow at a rate of 3mph. At these rates, how long will it take the boat to cruise 2mi upstream?
Thank You!!
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Question 773238: Two cars leave an intersection at the same time. One heads east at an average speed of 40 mph and the other heads south at 30 mph. Find an expression for their distance apart d (in miles) at the end of t hours.
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Question 773161: distance: 10km
rate: 10kph
time:
would i multiply or divide
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Question 773175: A train travels at 110 km/h. How long will it take the train to travel 230km?
Explanation please if possible.
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Question 773167: Would you please help me solve this question
A train travels 70 feet in 1/10 second how many feet will it travel in 3 1/2 seconds?
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Question 773177: If Dave drove one-third of the distance of his trip on the first day, and 60 miles on the second day, he figured out that he still had 1/2 of the trip to drive. What was the total length, in miles, of his trip?
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Question 773495: Mr Lim plans to drive to Bedok.
If he drives at an average speed of 90km/h,he will reach his destination at 13 00. If he drives at an average speed of 120km/h,he will reach his destination at 12 15
At what average speed should he be driving so that he will reach Bedok at 13 00?
Please help me solve this.
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Question 773508: helen rode her bicycle 6 km east, 4 km west, and then 5 km east. how far is she from her starting point?

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Question 773587: How many minutes will it takes for a car that is travelling in 30km?
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Question 773575: find the rate and unit rate for 420 miles in 7 hours
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Question 773566: driving to your friends house, you travel at an average rate of 35 miles per hour. on your way home, you travel at an average rate of 40 miles per hour. if the round trip took you 45 minutes, how far is it from your house to your friends house
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Question 773516: A fisherman can row against the stream in 20 minutes and return in 15 minutes . Then the speed of the current is?
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Question 773625: if a line of vehicles is traveling, following one another, why and how is it that the further back the line, the faster you have to drive to keep up? i see discrepencies of at least 10 mph from front to rear vehicles.
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Question 773702: train traval with speed of 90km/h , in what time will cross. a pole which is 180m away from. train. ??

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