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Question 808337: Company A rents cars for $20 a day and .20 for every mile driven. Company B rents cars for $42 a day and unlimited mileage. You want to rent a car for one week. What is the maximum miles you can drive a Company A car if it is to cost you less than a Company B car? Please solve using an inequality.
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Question 808356: Suppose a bicyclist rides up a category 2 climb at 10 km/hr and rides down the same distance at a speed of 50 km/hr. Find the distance traveled if the total time on the mountain was 3 hours.
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Question 808368: Jack leaves home at 9am and drives to work arriving at 9:45am. If the distance between home and work is 27 miles, what is Jack's average rate of speed?
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Question 808367: manuel rode his bicycle at an average speed of 13 miles per hour for 1 1/2 hours. if d = the total distance he rode, what is the value of d?
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Question 808439: How long will it take a butterfly going 11.5 mph to travel 2500 miles with no rest
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Question 808435: Kate drove 2 1/2 hours at an average speed of 55 mph and 1 1/2 hours at an average speed of 65 mph. How many miles did she travel?
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Question 808474: John walks a path that is 1 3/5 miles a day. How many miles will he walk in 4 days?
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Question 808514: Charmaine drive 320 miles in 12 gallons of gas. At this rate, how many gallons of gas would she need to drive 296 miles?
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Question 808500: If it takes you 32 seconds per mile? Than how long would it take you to go 1, 000 miles?
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Question 807789: h=384t-32t^2
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Question 808584: Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Q1: Two cars left at 0800 from the same point, one travelling east at 50km/h and the other travelling south at 60km/h. At what time will they be 300km apart and using a diagram to show their starting point,respective positions when they are 300km apart, direction, motion and distance travelled.
Q2: The distance travelled by both cars after 4hrs from the time they started.
Thankyou

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Question 808565: if u jog for 20 minutes at 10km/h how much i did km
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Question 808545: A plane traveling 135 mph overtakes a speeding car traveling 75 mph, in the same direction. The car had a 2 hour and 45 minute head start. How far from the starting point does the plane overtake the car?
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Question 808616: if the train from a reaches b (210 km away) in 2 hours and 20 minutes.how much longer will it take to reach c,another 360 km farther?
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Question 808638: A motorboat maintained a constant speed of 14 miles per hour relative to the water in going 33 miles upstream and then returning. the total time for the trip was 7 hours. Use this information to find the speed of the current.
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Question 808635: Two hikers started walking at noon, the first from location A to location B, the second from location B to location A along the same path. Each walked at a constant speed. They met at 3:00 pm. The first hiker arrived at location B 2.5 hours before the second hiker arrived at location A. When did the second hiker get to location A?
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Question 808632: Two planes leave the same airport the same time and travel in opposite directions, one at 550 miles per hour and the other at 300 miles per hour. In how many hours will they be 2550 miles apart?
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Question 808700: A family drove to Las Vegas at an average speed of 65mph and returned via the same route at a speed of 70mph. Find the time it took to drive to Las Vegas if the total time was 27 hours.
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Question 808603: a pole that is tall casts a shadow that is long. At the same time, a nearby building casts a shadow that is long. How tall is the building? Round your answer to the nearest meter.
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Question 808759: An airforce plan made a trip to dublin and back the trip there took four hours and the trip back took seven hours. it averaged 165 mph faster on the trip there than on the return trip. Find the air force plane's average speed on the out bound trip.
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Question 808721: A motorbike travels 200 km in 2 hours and 15 minutes. How fast is it going?
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Question 808735: if u travel 60km/h for 40 minutes,what distance did u travel?
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Question 808815: joe is sitting at the base of mount everest. he climbs 20% of the remaining height each day. how far does he climb in 5 days?
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Question 808863: Two cars started from the same point and traveled for x hours in opposite directions at rates of 30 mph and 40 mph
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Question 808865: Airline Patton travels 135.45 miles in 15 minutes. airline Galperin travels 176 miles in 20 minutes. How many more miles does Patton travel than Galperin in 1 hour?
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Question 808838: It took Steve 6 hours to drive to his house from his cousins at a velocity of 90 KM/H. If he wanted to take 8 hours to make the return trip home, how fast should he drive?
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Question 808798: A plane traveled 630 miles to Baltimore and back. The trip there was with the wind. It took 7 hours. The trip back was into the wind. The trip back took 20 hours. What is the speed of the plane in still air? What is the speed with the wind?
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Question 808887: plane b is flying 55 mph faster than plane a. Find the time it takes for plane b to travel 2220 miles if it takes plane a the same amount of time to travel 2000 miles.

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Question 808895: A rocket can move 100 meters per second.How far would it travel in 10 seconds?
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Question 808888: The posted speed is 45 mph. You are a cop First exit is 3.6 miles up the road. You pick up a car going 68 mph. 30 seconds after car passes. You take off to catch the car. How fast do you need to go to catch the speeding car? Whatnisyourbaverag speed in the pursuit?
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Question 808783: A 598-mile, 5-hour plane trip was flown at two speeds. For the first part of the trip, the average speed was 113 mph. For the remainder of the trip, the average speed was 124 mph. How long did the plane fly at each speed?
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Question 808917: The worlds fastest insect is dragonfly. It can fly 20mph. If it flew in a straight path at this rate, what distance would it fly in 10 minutes?
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Question 808925: a train leaves boston at 1pm. a second train leaves the same city going in the same direction at 5pm. the second train travels 84 mph faster than the first. If the second train overtakes the first at 8pm. what is the speed of each of the two trains?
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Question 808924: Mrs. Puff drives to work. She averages 22 miles per hour on her way to work. She averages 32 miles per hour on her way back from work. The total travel time is 2.25 hours. Write and solve an equation to find the time Mrs. Puff spends driving to work.
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Question 808952: A car travels 240 miles in 3 hours and 45 minutes. How many miles does it travel per hour?
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Question 808958: the current in a stream moves at a speed of 9 mph. a boat travels 4 mi upstream and 4 mi downstream in a total of 4 hours. what is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 808988: A certain aircraft can fly 612 miles with the wind in 3 hours and travel the same distance against the wind in 6 hours. What is the speed of the wind?
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Question 808909: plane b is flying 30 mph faster than plane a. find the time is takes for plane b to travel 660 miles if it takes plane a the same amount of time to travel 600 miles.
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Question 809034: a journey by bus takes 38 minutes at 55 kph. How fast must a car go to complete the same journey in 30 minutes
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Question 808982: Rene is going to the lake to visit some friends. If the lake is 60 miles away, and Rene is driving at 40 miles per hour the entire time, how long will it take her to get to the lake?*
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Question 808984: if you went at a distance of 55 km and you took 42 minuets what was my speed ?
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Question 808984: if you went at a distance of 55 km and you took 42 minuets what was my speed ?
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