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Question 847013: Two trains on the same track are 3,200 kilometers apart. They each leave their stations at the same time as they race toward each other. Train A moves at a constant speed of 60 kph and the train B moves at a constant speed of 85 kph. How long will it take for the two trains to meet? How far will each train have traveled? Use your mind please.
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Question 847027: Bob left work and traveled to school an average speed of 25 mph. If it took Bob 35minutes to reach school, how far is Bob's school from his place of work
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Question 847073: Jesse travels 3.0 meters east and then turns and travels 4.0 meters north. What distance did Jesse travel?
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Question 847069:
two cars start driving in the same direction from the same place. one travels 56mph and the other 64 mph, how long will it take them to be 48 miles apart
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Question 846995:

If 1 inch equals 125 miles
Haw many miles does 1/4" represent on the map?
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Question 847127: How long will a ship have to sail in order to cover 1200 miles? Cher average speed is 25mph. (show all 4 steps)
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Question 847132: How fast will a race car have to travel if it wants to cover a distance of 600 miles in four hours? (show all 4 steps)
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Question 847131: How far will a robin fly in 3 hours if his speed is 36mph? ( show all 4 steps)
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Question 847129: How long will an airplane have to fly if it needs to cover a distance of 780 miles and flies at 390mph(show all 4 steps)
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Question 847128: How far will a robin fly in 3 hours if his speed is 36 mph? (show all 4 steps)
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Question 847023: two buses start from the same stands at 8:00am one travel at 40km/h and the other travel at 50 km/h . how much late will the first bus arrive
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Question 847149: What is the answer to this question and what is the formula to get the answer.
A boat on a river traveled 16 miles in 20 miles going downstream. The boat can hold 15 gallons of gas. It takes 30 minutes for the boat to travel back upstream to where it started. Find the speed of the current.
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Question 847160: Grade 8 math word problem
Bus station is 10km away. To catch bus before it leaves, you must travel a rate of 60km/hr by car to get there. There is bad weather so you're only able to drive 30km/hr for the first 5km. What speed must you travel the rest of way to catch the bus?
What I'm thinking so far...
If you should drive 60km/hr, then 1km should take 1 min (60 divided by 60). Therefore it should normally take 10mins to get there.
30km/hr divided by 60 would mean you traveled 0.5km/min. So 0.5 x 10= 5km for 10mins. Now what?
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Question 847177: A moter car start with speed 70 km per hour with speed increasing every 2 hour By 10 km per hour .In how much time will it cover a distance of 345 km?
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Question 847232: one bus complete 504 kilomerer in 4 hours and 30 minute.tell the speed of bus?

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Question 846937: Two persons are to run a race, but one can run 11 meters per second, whereas the other can run 5 meters per second. If the slower runner has a 87-meter head start, how long will it be before the faster runner catches the slower runner, if they begin at the same time?

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Question 847278: A bus trip of 450 km would have taken 1 hour less if the average speed for the trip had been greater by 5km per hour. What was the average speed, in km per hour, for the trip ?
I hope you can help me to solve this problem. Thank you in Advance :D
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Question 847289: A man drove 360 km at a certain speed. The return trip was made at a speed of 9 km per hour greater and return trip took 2 hours less time than in going. How fast did he drive on the return trip?
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Question 847364: On a map that has a scale of 1:6500, a measured distance of 5.35 inches represents an actual distance of feet and miles.
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Question 847423: Jim runs 6 kilometers in 50 minutes. At the same rate, how many kilometers would he run in 35 minutes?
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Question 847423: Jim runs 6 kilometers in 50 minutes. At the same rate, how many kilometers would he run in 35 minutes?
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Question 847438: If traveling at the speed of 70 mph how long would it take to drive 116 miles
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Question 847463: The distrance on the map form a to b alon the road is 9cm.
how long will it take to walk form a to b along the road at a speed of 4 kilometres per hour

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Question 847492: the total time taken to travel x km at 20 km/h and y km at 30 km/h is 3 hours . the time taken to travel x km at 40 km/h aand y km at 15 km/h is also 3 hours . find x and y
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Question 847498: A car travels at 45 mph for 4 hours. How far is it traveled?
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Question 847550: what is the speed of a turtle that has traveled 50 meters in 3 hours?
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Question 847551: Joey is traveling 26 miles an hour. Four seconds later, he is traveling 130 miles an hour. What is his acceleration?
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Question 847609: Mr. Allen hiked from his summer cabin to town at a rate of 3 mph. He came back in a car which averaged 36 mph. If the total time he traveled was 3.25 hours, find the amount of time h spent on each part of the trip.
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Question 847611: Suppose that during a test drive of two cars, one car travels 333 miles in the same time that the second car travels 270 miles. If the speed of one car is 14 miles per hour faster than the speed of the second car, find the speed of both cars.
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Question 847610: How fast is a car goin if. It travels 25 yards in 2.5 seconds
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Question 847635: If a car travels 135 km in 5 hours, what is its average speed?
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Question 847642: The density of a gold ring is 19g/cm cubed. John buys his wife a gold ring that has a mass of 0.008kg, what is the volume of metal used to make that ring?
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Question 847650: The force required to compress the spring varies directly with the change in the length of the spring If a force of 130 pounds compresses the spring on the pogo stick 6.5 inches, how much force is required to compress the spring 5 inches?
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Question 847680: Distance between 2 airports = 1,450 miles.
Average speed of airplane = 350 mph.
Travel time by bus after arrival at airport = 30 minutes.
Total travel time =
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Question 847599: Sophie travels at 55mph for 3 hours. How far does she travel?

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Question 847729: how MUCH GAS MONEY IS 792 MILES?

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Question 847733: You and a friend are 2 miles apart. You start walking toward each other at the same moment. You travel 22 feet every 5 seconds. Your friend travels 32 feet every 8 seconds. How close are you to each other after 10 minutes?
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Question 847576: Helene lives 12 miles from work. On Monday morning, she drove to work in 15 minutes. Coming home, it took her 30 minutes. What was her average speed on Monday?
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Question 847830: two cars are leaving the same station at the same time going in opposite directions. one car is traveling at 40mph while the other car is traveling at 65 mph. how long will it take them to be apart?

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Question 847834: Two cars leaving the same spot going in the same direction. One car is traveling at the speed of 60 mph and the other car is traveling at the speed of 50 mph. If the slow car leaves an hour ahead of the faster car. How long it will take the faster car to catch up with the slower car?

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Question 847867: I need help setting up this distance word problem.
Chicago and Green Bay are about 200 miles apart. a car leaves Chicago traveling toward Green Bay at 55 miles per hour. At the same time, a truck leaves Green Bay bound for Chicago at 45 miles per hour. how long will it take them to meet?

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Question 847872: A car is traveling on the freeway at 65 mph. A second car is two miles ahead, traveling in the same direction, at 60 mph. How far will the cars travel before the car traveling 65 mph will catch up to the car traveling 60 mph?
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Question 847875: a trunk travels 150 miles on the freeway at an average speed of 60 mph. how long does the journey take?
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