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Question 807022: if at a given speed a car can travel 143.4 miles on 6 gallons of gasoline, how far can the car travel on 72 gallons of gasoline at that speed?
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Question 806993: How fast are you traveling if you can drive 53.3 miles in 15 minutes?
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Question 807043: i drove 6 hours and traveled 336 mile what is the rate per hour i drove
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Question 807058: Two hikers are 12 miles apart and walking towards each other. They meet in two hours. Find the rate of each hiker if one hiker walks 1.8 mph faster than the other.
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Question 807051: One plane flies east from Seattle to Chicago, and another west from Chicago to Seattle. The two cities are 1800 miles apart. Both planes leave at 12 pm EST, but the flight to Chicago lands at 3pm EST and the flight to Seattle lands at 5 pm EST. how far East of Seattle were the planes when they passed eachother?
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Question 806830: yolanda and Yoko run a 100 yard race. when Yolanda finishes, Yoko is 10 yards behind her. They run the race a second time, but this time Yolanda starts 10 yards behind Yoko- who will win the second race? How far back would Yolanda have to start for the race to end in a tie?
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Question 807322: Two trains leave the station at the same time, but headed in different directions. The first train at 10 mph faster than the second train. After six hours they are 720 mi apart. What are the speeds of the trains?
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Question 807366: how do you show your work on this problem "Alberto ran 5 kilometers in 21 minutes.if ALBERTO continued to run at the same rate,how long would it take him to run a total of 15 kilometers?
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Question 807311: Luis can drive 4 times as fast as Oscar can ride his bicycle. If it takes Oscar 3 hours longer than Luis to travel 64 miles, how fast can Oscar ride his bike.
I've tried 64/t= 64/t+3
=0
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Question 807432: Manuel has a boat that can move at a speed of 15 km/h in still water. He rides 140 km downstream in a river in the same time it takes to ride 35 km upstream. What is the speed of the river?
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Question 807420: A car A is approaching at a speed of 10m/sec another car B moving in the opposite direction at a speed of 20m/sec distance b/w cars is 300m
A fly whose absolute speed is 50m/sec goes repeatedly from A to B and back, without loosing any time at any of the cars. This repeated moving back and forth stops when the two cars crash into each other. Answer the following:
(i) The distance traveled by the fly before the collision is _______m.
(ii) The number of trips made by the fly back and forth is _________
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Question 807569: cheyenne drove 3,000 miles in 75 hours. t this rate how long will it take her to drive 4,000 miles
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Question 807655: Yuki drives 144 mile in 3 hours. What was her rate in miles per hours?
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Question 807632: if you average 65 miles per hours while driving, how long will it take you to drive to Chicago?
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Question 807633: she traveled 180 miles in 3 hours how many miles did she travel in 1 hour

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Question 807664: maria is going on a trip of 420 miles.if she drives a steady 60 miles per hour,how long should the trip take

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Question 807673: if you average 65 miles per hour while driving from mobile how long will it take you to drive to chicago
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Question 807635: A man is driving at a speed of 60 MPH. Calculate the distance he will have traveled in 1 hour and 45 min,
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Question 807732: A boat traveled 210 miles downstream and back. the trip downstream took 10 hours and the trip back took 70 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water? What is the speed of the current?
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Question 807746: Two small planes start from the same point and fly in opposite directions. The first plane is flying 40mph slower than the second plane. In the 3 hr the planes are 1920 mi apart. Find the rate of the faster plane.
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Question 807785: if a bird flies 40km/h with the wind,but only 10km/h against the wind , what is the rate of bird in still air? what is the rate of wind?
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Question 807709: A boat travels 100 miles downstream in the same length of time it travels 50 miles upstream. If the boat's speed and still water at 30 mph, find the speed of the current of the river.
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Question 807821: if i travel on the interstate going 65 mph, how far in feet would i travel in 4 seconds?

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Question 807854: A car travels 70 mph for 3 hours, 0 mph for 1 hour, 50 mph for 1.5 hours, and 60 mph for 4 hours. what is its average speed over the entire trip?
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Question 807853: A boat is moving through a river at 9 km/hr. The river has a current of 2 km/hr. Assuming the current is either opposed to or in the direction of the movement of the boat, what is the maximum velocity of the boat over the riverbed?, what is the minimum? Assuming the current velocity is opposed to the velocity of the boat, to what speed should the boat slow so that its velocity is zero with respect to the river bed?
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Question 807875: A plane traveling at a constant speed is able to travel 600 miles in 5 hours. How fast was the plane flying?

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Question 807921: A plane has a velocity relative to the air of 500 km/hr. It has a constant tail wind of 200 km/hr. How long will it take to cover 2100 km over the ground?
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Question 807971: Two cars, A and B, are 120km apart. If they travel towards each other, they will meet in one hour. If they travel in the same direction, Car A will catch up with Car B in 5 hours
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Question 807968: Two persons travel on an East-West highway to two cities in the opposite directions. The distance between the two cities is 1080 miles. Person A going West travels at 65mph. Person B going East travels at 70mph. At which point (mile) does B meet A?
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Question 807986: For a journey, if the train increases its speed by 2km/h, then it will take 4 hours less to finish the trip. If it reduces its speed by 2km/h, then it will take 6 hours more. Find the distance that the train has to travel
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Question 807983: a car travels between a and b at an average speed of 60km/h. if the car increases its average speed to 100 km/h would take 10 minutes less to make the trip. How far it is between the towns?
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Question 808078: At 10:00 am a car leaves a house at a rate of 60 mi/h. At the same time another car leaves the same house at a rate of 50 mi/h in the opposite direction. At what time will the cars be 330 miles apart
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Question 808085: how much is 18 miles per hour in 120 minutes?
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Question 808086: if other factors remain constant, Given the same speed, point and distance to a truck and a small car, which one will reach first?
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Question 808084: Jamie cycles 12 miles at a steady speed of x mph and then 25 miles at a steady speed of (x + 4) mph. Write down an expression, in terms of x, for the total time that Jamie takes.

The total time that Jamie takes is 2 hours. Form an equation in x and show that it simplifies to 2x^2-29x-48=0

Solve the equation 2x^2-29x-48=0 to find the speed x mph
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Question 245: Two planes leave O'Hare Airport in Chicago at the same time. One flies directly east at 540 mph. The other flies directly west at 720 mph. How long will it take them to be 1890 miles apart?
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Question 808109: If my vehicle gets 19 mpg & I travel 60 miles total for work everyday. . . .how much gas would I burn in two days?
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Question 808117: The excursion boat Holiday travels 35 km upstream and then back again in 4h 48min. If the speed of the Holiday in still water is 15 km/h, what is the speed of the current?
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Question 808083: Jamie cycles 12 miles at a steady speed of x mph and then 25 miles at a steady speed of (x + 4) mph. Write down an expression, in terms of x, for the total time that Jamie takes.
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Question 808188: if a car can go 110 miles on 5 gallons of gas, how far can it go on 12 gallons of gas?
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Question 808189: If one elevator is on the 139th floor and travels two seconds per floor, and the other elevator is on the 14th floor and travels three seconds per floor, on what floor will they meet. What formula would you use to solve this problem. thank you.
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Question 808308: If a boat took 1 hour and 30 minutes to travel 12 miles, what was the average speed in mph?
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Question 808308: If a boat took 1 hour and 30 minutes to travel 12 miles, what was the average speed in mph?
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