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Question 793388: a car is driving at a speed of 40mi/h. what is the speed of the car in feet per minute?
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Question 793391: A motorist travelling at 80 km/hr is being chased by a police car at 148 km/hr. If the police car starts from 3.5 km back, how long does it take to catch the motorist? Leave time in hours.
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Question 793394: sir if initial velocity ,time and accelaration is given then which formula is used to calculate the distance traveled by a moving object? plz tell me
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Question 793410: A car travelling down a road begins accelerating with a constant acceleration of 1.6 m/s2 in the direction of motion. After travelling 167 m at this acceleration, its speed is 76.0 m/s. Determine the speed of the car when it began accelerating.

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Question 793531: Martina drove to the mountains last weekend. There was heavy traffic on the way there, and the trip took hours. When Martina drove home, there was no traffic and the trip only took hours. If her average rate was miles per hour faster on the trip home, how far away does Martina live from the mountains?
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Question 793527: If a train is going one way and is 1500 ft the second is 9000 ft and the 3rd is 2000 ft what is the perimeter
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Question 793643: a train that travels 90 miles per hour covers 1530 miles. How many hours did the trip take
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Question 793578: Lysa left camp on her bicycle at noon and rode at an average rate of 10 miles per hour. Morton left camp in his van at 1:30 P.M. and overtook Lysa in 30 minutes. At what average rate was he traveling in the van?
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Question 793669: sally left the city traveling at 64 mph, while, at the same time, Jessica left the city going the opposite direction at a speed of 72 mph. find the time sally traveled before the two were 198 miles apart.
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Question 793442: the travel time between two cities is inversely proportional to the average speed. A train travels between the cities in 3 hours at an average speed of 65 mph how long would it take to travel between the cities at an average speed of 80 mph?
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Question 793775: Two cars are leaving their driveways at the same time heading for school that is 15 miles away. One car drives at 40mph, while the other is driving at 50mph. How long has the second car been at school when the first car arrives?
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Question 793818: A taxi charges P30 for the first half kilometer and P10 for each additional 200 meters. How far in kilometers can a person ride and owe between P130 and P280?
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Question 793928: You must be at a meeting in a city 630 miles away in 8 hours and 45 minutes, what should be your average speed?
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Question 793952: Two men leave at the same time to walk from point A to points B. The distance between A and B is 30 kilometers. The 1st man arives to point B one hour before the 2nd man arrives there. We know that when the 1st man had traveled 12 kilometers, the 2nd man traveled 10 kilometers. What was the speed of both men?
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Question 794048: Frank drove 605 miles in 11hours.
At the same rate, how long would it take him to drive 495miles?
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Question 794082: how many miles is a car traveling per second if it is traveling 2.98 feet per second
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Question 794073: A boat takes 3 hours longer to go 60 miles up a river than to return. If the boat cruises at 15mph in still water, what is the rate of the current? Also, what level of Algebraic problem solving is this considered?
Thanks,
Steve Schrock
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Question 794461: Jack delivers newspapers every afternoon. the trip delivering themm takes 45min. The return trip home over the same route takes 30min. If his average speed going is 6km/hr slower than returning home, how long is his paper route.
Thank you
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Question 794493: How do I solve the following math problem with a number line,
The distance between 100 and me is 57. What number can I be?
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Question 794577: Let's say I'm walking 2 minutes and 30 seconds every 130 meters, how long would it take for me to walk 5 km? and how long would it take if I were to walk a marathon of 26.2 miles.
I'm really confused in my physics class and I'm not really sure how to calculate the distance and speed for my lab. If you know some equations to help me plug this into a calculator or something, that would help a lot.
Thanks.
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Question 794520: if a cars 83 meter per second. how fast does it go in mile per hour

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Question 794251: A ski lift carried Maria up a slope at a rate of 6 km/h, and she skied back down parallel to the lift at 34 km/h. The round trip took 30 min. How far did she ski and for how long?
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Question 794836: An airplane flies 2750 miles in 5 hours how many seconds will it take in the same distance
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Question 794839: An airplane flies 2750 miles in 5 hours. Find unit rate in miles per second
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Question 794972: if distance between town a and b is 326 miles how far is the distance rounded to the nearest hundred
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Question 794970: Julia drove 135 miles in 4.5 hours. Find her average rate in miles per hour
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Question 794977: how much gas would it take to drive 57.6 miles in a car that gets 35 miles to the gallon?
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Question 795039: A plane can fly 580 mph in still air. If it can fly 600 miles downwind in the same amount of time it can fly 560 miles upwind, find the velocity of the wind.
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Question 795118: Please help and explain how to solve I am very confused, Thank you.
Here is the math problem:
Two vehicles are driving toward an intersection on streets that are perpendicular to one another. A car is traveling at a rate of 30 miles per hour and a fire truck is traveling at a rate of 50 miles per hour. The fire truck is on its way to a fire at the drugstore and is running with the lights and siren. At 0 minutes, the car is 3 miles from the intersection of the two streets and the fire truck is 5 miles from the intersection.
A. What is the rate of the car in miles per minute? What is the rate of the fire truck in miles per minute?
I think it goes like this (30miles/60minutes) = 1mile/2mintes but am unsure why?
B. After 3minutes, how far has the car traveled toward the intersection?
C. After 3minutes, how fas has the fire truck traveled toward the intersection?
D. If both vehicles have been traveling for 4 minutes, how far is each vehicle from the intersection?
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Question 795153: Ashley travels 40 mph and her sister Brittany leaves 2 hours later traveling at 50mph. Both arrive at their grandparents house at the same time. What is the distance from Analyse house to her grandparents house.
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Question 795182: 2 boys with 2 way radios that have a range of 2 miles leave camp and walk in opposite directions. if one boy walks 3 mph and the other boy walks 4 mph, how long will it take before they lose radio contact
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Question 795253: Going against the current, a boat makes a 150 mile trip in 2.5 hours. On the way back, the boat goes with the current and the trip only takes 1.5 hours. Find the speed of the boat in miles per hour.
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Question 795256: An airplane makes a trip in 3.2 hours flying against the wind. The same plane makes the same trip in 3 hours flying withe the wind. If the wind is moving at 7 miles per hour, find the speed of the plane.
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Question 795251: A boat makes a trip downstream in 1 hour. It makes the upstream trip in the same current in 1.5 hours. The speed of the boat is still water would've been 4 miles per hour. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 795257: An airplane makes a trip in 4.3 hours flying with a headwind. The plane makes the trip back in 3.9 hours with a tailwind. If the windspeed is 10 miles per hour find the speed of the airplane.
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Question 795350: A 3�-foot piece is cut from a 6-foot board. Find the length of the remaining piece of board.
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Question 795255: An airplane makes a trip in 4 hours flying with a headwind. The plane makes the trip back in 3.5 hours with a tailwind. If the windspeed is 14 miles per hour, find the speed of the airplane.
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Question 795391: A ferry leaves a harbor and travels to a resort island at an average speed of 18 mph. On the return trip, the ferry travels at an average speed of 10 mph because of fog. The total time for the trip is 7 h. How far is the island from the harbor?
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Question 795375: You can walk 1 3 /4 miles in 1/ 2 hour. What is your average speed?
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Question 795408: Mr Bussey builds and exceptionally large ramp to drive into outerspace. How long will it take to reach the Andromeda galaxy which is 2.5 million light years away from earth. the speed of ight is 300,000,00 metres per second the speed of mr busseys car tops out at 225km/h
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Question 795402: A person walks to school going 3 mph, and jogs back home going 5 mph. If the total travel time was 1 hour, what was the total distance the person traveled?
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Question 795531: An airplane makes a trip in 6 hours flying against the wind. The same plane makes the same trip in 5.7 hours flyng with the wnd. If the wind is moving at 8 miles per hour, find the speed of the plane.
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Question 795528: help me translate this to algebraic expression please...
the distance travelled in T hours by a car travelling at 50 miles per hour
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