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Question 880138: At 60 miles per hour ,eta , to go 11 miles?
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Question 880137: A car travels for 100 miles at a uniform speed. If the speed is increased by 5 miles per hour, the trip would take one hour less time. what is the car's original speed?
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Question 880116: Blaise rode hi bike to him friend elroy's house, which was 15 miles away. After he had been riding for half an hour, he got a flat tire. He walked his bike the rest of the way. The total trip took him 3 hours. if his walking rate was one-fourth as fast as his riding rate, how fast did he ride?
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Question 880184: a man completes 30 km of a journey at the speed of 6 km/hr and the remaining 40 kms of the journey in 5 hrs.what is the average speed for the whole journey?
a.7 km/hr
b.5 9/11 km/hr
c.8 km/hr
d.7 1/2 km/hr
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Question 880185: a man completes 30 km of a journey at the speed of 6 km/hr and the remaining 40 kms of the journey in 5 hrs.what is the average speed for the whole journey?
a. 7 km/hr
b. 5 9/11 km/hr
c. 8 km/hr
d. 7 1/2 km/hr
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Question 880276: Average speed of Car 1 = 45 mph.
Average speed of Car 2 = 65 mph.
Time elapsed between start of Car 1 and start of Car 2 = 18 minutes.
How long before Car 2 overtakes Car 1?
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Question 880281: Calculate the average speed of a vehicle in km/h traveling at 36 km/h for 20 minutes and then at 25 m/s for 30 minutes.
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Question 880287: Jordan's running speed is three times his walking speed.
He runs for 5 minutes and then walks for 3 minutes,
covering a total distance of 2070 metres.
What is his walking speed?

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Question 880279: HI, i travel to work 90km there and back and i have a 22.5 gallon tank how many times can i travel without filling up.

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Question 880221: A model and a high court judge decide on a road race
� The model runs and the judge rides a motorcycle
� They start at the same point and time
� They cover equal distance
� She wins the race
How was this possible?
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Question 880243: If you visit 174 sites and the total miles to all the sites are 174, what is the average windshield time?

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Question 880306: If i leave my house at 2:00 to go to my friends house and i ride my bike to her house and it takes me 42 mints to get there.What time would i get to my friends house?
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Question 880315: A product costs $58.50 for 7 pounds. How much does it cost per ounce?
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Question 880312: If you were traveling at 65 mph for 3.5 hours, then how many total miles have you traveled?
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Question 880314: How much money will you have if you started with $20 and put it in an account that earned 12% every year for 3 years?
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Question 880310: At first an athlete jogs at 10 miles per hour and then jogs at 8 miles per hour, traveling 10.2 miles in 1.2 hours. How long did the athlete jog at each speed?
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Question 880427: Hi i have another question/ problem
i travel 90km to and from work and i have a 15.4 gallon fuel tank how many days can i go without filling up?.
thx troy
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Question 880456: Aldo flew from Chicago to Denver. His flight took off at 8:14 pm and landed at 10:36 pm . How long did the flight last?
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Question 880457: i travel 90km to and from work and i have a 15.4 gallon fuel tank how many days can i go without filling up?. vehicle can go 22 mpg-city and 30 mpg-highway
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Question 880462: If you were traveling at 70mph for 4.5 hours, then how many total miles have you traveled?
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Question 880463: Use the formulas for a cone:
r = 4
l = 3
LSA =
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Question 880472: i travel 90km to and from work and i have a 15.4 gallon fuel tank how many days can i go without filling up?. vehicle can go 22 mpg city and 30 mpg highway
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Question 880474: i travel 90km to and from work and i have a 15.4 gallon fuel tank how many days can i go without filling up?. vehicle can go 22 mpg city and 30 mpg highway
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Question 880313: A product costs $15.99 for 7 pounds. How much does it cost per ounce?
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Question 880490: Please help me set up an equation for this word problem!
Brent sent or received 384 text messages in 8 days. At this rate, how many text messages would he send or receive in 30 days?
thanks
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Question 880521: If a train is moving at 60 kms and a passenger is walking from the back to the front at 10kms an hour, how fast is the passenger going?
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Question 880543: After you leave your house, you walk 10 blocks east and 6 blocks south. How far are you from your house?

I am __________________ blocks from my house

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Question 880552: Alexander and Judy are 32 miles apart on a calm lake paddling toward each other. Alexander paddles at 5 miles per hour, while Judy paddles at 8 miles per hour. how long will it take them to meet?
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Question 880553: Julie and Eric row their boat (at a constant speed) 63 miles downstream for 7 hours, helped by the current. Rowing at the same rate, the trip back against the current takes 9 hours. Find the rate of current
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Question 880679: A boat traveled 198 miles downstream and back. The trip downstream took 11 hours. The trip back took 33 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water? I would really like to know how to work this problem out.
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Question 880674: Two planes leave Memphis at the same time. One heads south to New Orleans. The other heads north to Chicago. The Chicago plane flies 50mph faster than the New Orleans. In half an hour the planes are 275 miles apart. What are their speeds.

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Question 880700: During a 10 day period, Officer Mandel drove his patrol motorcycle 1320 miles. If he drove 105 miles on one day, how many miles did he average on the other days?
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Question 880715: I need help finding the equation for this word problem.
Meredith drove at an average speed of 55 mi/h from her home in Kansas City to visit her sister in Pittsburg. She stayed in Pittsburg 15 hours, and on the trip back averaged 50 mi/h. She returned home 46 hours after leaving. How many miles is Kansas City from Pittsburg?
Write an equation using the information as it is given above that can be solved to answer this question. Use t as your variable to represent the amount of time Meredith spent driving from Kansas City to Pittsburg.
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Question 880773: Town X and Town Y are 220km apart. Sharon left Town X at 08 00 and drove towards Town Y at a speed of 80 km/h. Half an hour later, Michelle started driving from Town Y to Town X. They met each other at 09 15.
(a) What was Michelle's average speed?
(b) After passing Michelle, Sharon increased her speed by 10km/h. At what time did she reach Town Y?
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Question 880779: please help solve with solutions: two cars travels at a rate of 30 kph and 40 kph respectively at the same point in a right angle position. how long will they be 100 kms apart

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Question 880716: if 1 train leaves los angeles at 10am going 85mph nd another leaves nyc at 10am going 105mph. where do they meet?
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Question 880828: a motor boat travelling at 18 miles per hour traveled the length of a lake in one quarter of an hour less time than it took when traveling at 12 miles per hour.what was the length in miles of the lake?
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Question 880936: suppose you have entered a 121-mile biathlon that consists of a run and bicycle race. During your run, your average velocity is 6 miles per hours, and during your bicycle race, your average velocity is 23 miles per hour. You finish the race in 6 hours. What is the distance of the run? What is the distance of the bicycle race?
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Question 881014: If Jacob rides a 10 speed bike at 10mph, how long would it take to ride 15 miles?
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Question 881015: how much gas money to drive 211 miles
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Question 881015: how much gas money to drive 211 miles
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Question 881128: Books cost 50� and pamphlets 15� at the book sale. If Mr. Jones spent $90 and
purchased 15 more pamphlets than he did books, how many pamphlets did he buy ?
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