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Question 796955: This is a word problem I am having trouble setting it up.
It takes 5 hours for a jet plane traveling from L.A to New York with a wind blowing it from west to east. On the return trip it took the jet plane 6 hours. The distance between L.A and New York is approximately 4,000 miles.
How fast is the airplane if there is no wind? And how fast was the wind blowing?
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Question 796538: Two men starting at a point on a circular 1-mile race track walk in opposite directions with uniform speeds and meet in 6 minutes, but if they walk in the same direction, it requires one hr for the faster walker to gain a lap. What is the rate of the slower walker?
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Question 797053: Find how fast (on average) an airplane is traveling if it travels 1650 miles in 3 hours.
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Question 797054: The Reeds are moving across Texas. Mr. Reed leaves 3.5 hours before Mrs. Reed. If his mean speed is 40mph and her mean speed is 60 mph, how long will Mrs. Reed have to drive before she overtakes Mr.Reed?
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Question 797127: How many minutes will it take a car traveling 65 mph to cover 2.5 miles?
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Question 797163: How long will it take to travel 210 km @ 50 km/h?
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Question 797163: How long will it take to travel 210 km @ 50 km/h?
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Question 797194: The sum of the speeds of two cars is 724.3 mph. If the speed of first car is 7.7 faster than second car. find speeds of each.
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Question 797197: hello sir / ma'am, im having trouble with this:
a boat can travel 8 miles per hour in still water. the boat travels upstream for a certain time in a river whose current flows 2 miles per hour. then, the boat returns to its starting point. if the trip, up and back consumed 8 hours, how long did the boat travel upstream?
thank you so much!
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Question 797176: The speed of a ship is 50 km. How far will the ship travel in 14 hours
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Question 797176: The speed of a ship is 50 km. How far will the ship travel in 14 hours
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Question 797092: two cyclists are traveling at the same path. the first cyclist stops every 11 minutes to take a drink. the second cyclist stops every 15 minutes to take a drink. if the cyclists continue to stop at the same rate, after how many minutes will the cyclists be stopped at the same time?
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Question 797237: a boat takes 4 hrs to travel certain distance in a river in downstream and it takes 8hrs to travel the same distance in upstream .then time taken by the boat to travel the same distance in still water

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Question 797334: if their russia is 8,571 miles how many hours does it take to get to russia
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Question 797348: please help me solve this:
Skid is driving his car at 80 mi/hr. While reading the Springfield Reivedw of Books, he looks up and notices he is about to crash into a wall. When he is 100 m from the wall, he puts on the brakes. If Skid does not lock his brakes, calculate the coefficient of friction he needs so that he stops just before he hits the wall. What type of friction does he use?

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Question 797364: The Family Fine Arts Center charges $22 per adult and $12 per senior citizen for its performances. On a recent weekend evening when483 people paid admission, the total receipts were $7296. How many who paid were senior citizens?

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Question 797384: I f I flow my airplane 80 kilometers round trip, how many meters did I travel?
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Question 797433: The function defined by D(t)=13t^2-73t gives the distance in feet that a car gives approximately 50 mph will skid in t seconds. Find the time it would take for the car to skid 364ft. Round to the nearest tenth.

Please help
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Question 797439: Harrison and Lara have to use a catapult to fire a large rock over a hill and into a well that they can't see from the catapult's location. They are not permitted to walk anywhere on the hill, so measuring the distance to the well requires a clever plan.
Lara flies a helicopter over the well and drops a rope to measure her height above it. Exactly 125 m of rope is all she needs to touch the well; however, a steady wind is blowing the rope so it makes a straight line at an angle to the ground.
Meanwhile, back at the catapult, Harrison uses a rangefinder to determine that the helicopter is exactly 280 m away from the catapult, at an elevation of 15�.
Harrison radios Lara and confirms with her that the well, the helicopter and the catapult are all in the same vertical plane. Without making any further measurements, he now has enough information to set the distance for the catapult.
Harrison has one critical piece of information that you do not. Without it, you cannot determine the distance to the well with certainty. The information is not a measurement�Harrison will have no trouble determining it.
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Question 797491: The intensity I of light varies inversely as the sqaure of the distance D from the source. If the intensity of illumination on a screen 5ft from a light is 4 foot candles, find the intensity on a screen 20ft from the light.

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Question 797497: Mandy begins bicycling west at 30 mph at 11:00 am. If Liz leaves from same point 20 minutes later bicycling west at 36 mph, when will she catch Mandy?
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Question 797481: If I travel for 5 hours at 52 miles an hour how many miles is that

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Question 797543: Ryan left the science museum and drove
south. Gabriella left three hours later
driving 42 km/h faster in an effort to catch
up to him. After two hours Gabriella finally
caught up. Find Ryan's average speed. Please show step by step
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Question 797597: a train heads west at 90 miles per hour. another train on teh same track is in front of the first train. it heads west at 60 miles per hour. at 2:00 pm, the trains are 75 miles apart. if they both keep a constant speed, how far apart will they be at 2:30 pm?
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Question 797663: Peter drove at a speed of 60 miles per hour for 2.5 hours. Find the distance traveled ?
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Question 797687: The formula t = gives the time t for a distance d traveled at a rate r. A train traveled 225 miles at a rate of 45 mi/hr.

How long did it take the train to travel this far?

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Question 797678: The sum of one number and two times a second number is 24. What numbers should be selected so that their product is as large as possible?
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Question 797710: how fast do you have to travel to cover 93 miles in 15 min

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Question 797754: An eastbound train and a westbound train meet each other on parallel tracks heading in opposite directions. The eastbound train travels 8 miles per hour faster than the westbound train. After 1.5 hours, they are 168 miles apart. At what speeds are the two trains traveling?
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Question 797763: A train travels 120 in one hour. What is it's speed in miles per minute

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Question 797777: George is driving 65 mph on a highway. Jen is 15 miles behind him driving 70 mph. how long will it take her to catch up to George?
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Question 797801: A train leaves town at 7:00am traveling south at 30mph. At 10:00 that morning, a second train leaves from the same location (on a parallel track) traveling 40 mph. At what time will it overtake the slower? You don't have to solve the problem for me. I just need help setting this up.
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Question 797793: I'm tutoring a kid but I am stuck on this problem... I've tried several things, but keep getting either -32/3 or -8/3 or -16/3... frustrating!
Here it is set up (I had these all spread out in a box format, but it squishes them together)
rate * time = distance
first 1/3 of trip x \\ 1.5 \\ 1.5x
second 2/3 of trip (16 - 1.5x)/4.5 \\ 4.5 \\ 16 - 1.5x
========================================
total {16/6} \\ 6 \\ 16
Here's my problem.... if the trip is 6 hours, then it's not 1/3 and 2/3, but 1/4 and 3/4....
I took 1/3(1.5x) + 2/3(16 - 1.5x) = 16 and got -32/3
I took 1/3x + 2/3(16-1.5x)/4.5 = 16/6 and got 8/3
then, I took 1/4(1.5x) + 3/4(16 - 1.5x) = -16/3
Any suggestions for me?
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Question 797834: a reconnaissance plane flies 502 km away from its base at 994 m/s, then flies back to its base at 1491 m/s. Whats is its average speed? Answer in units of m/s
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Question 797870: Jim has to drive 505 miles in 6 hours, how fast would Jim have to drive to get there on time?
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Question 797949: Sarah started out to work traveling at 40 kilometer per hour. Two hours later, Kevin leaves from the same point driving along the same road at 60 kilometers per hour. How many hours does Kevin have to drive to catch up to Sarah?

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Question 798121: if a car travels at 60 mph for 3 hours and 10 minutes, how far has it traveled in miles?
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Question 798124: If I'm traveling 40miles per hour to a destination that's 60 miles away. How Long will it take?
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Question 798191: How long would it take to drive 17,167 kms at 60 km/h
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Question 522427: A cheetah spots a gazelle 132 meters away. The cheetah starts towards the gazelle at a speed of 18 meters per second. At the same instant, the gazelle starts moving away from the gazelle at 11 meters per second. How long will it take the cheetah to get dinner?
Could you please solve this and show me the equation you used to solve it.
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Question 798322: Mr. and Mrs. Reyes and their daughter Carolyn own three cars. Carolyn drives 10 miles per week farther with her car than her father does with his. Mr. Reyes drives twice as many miles per week as Mrs. Reyes. If their total mileage per week is 160 miles, how many miles per week does each drive?
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Question 798342: When sam drives to work he drives 12 more miles than twice the distance Sara does Sam drives 23.3 miles to work how many more miles does Sara drive to work?
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Question 798345: When Sam drives to work he drives 12 more miles than twice the distance Sarah does. Sam drives 23.3 miles to work how many miles does Sarah drive to work
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Question 798311: A freight train starts from Los Angeles and heads for Chicago at 40mph. Two hours later a passenger train leaves the same station for Chicago traveling at 60mph. How long will it be before the passenger train overtakes the freight train?
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