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Question 896313: It takes 4 hours to cover a certain distance at 40 km per hour. How long would it take to cover it at 50 km per hour?
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Question 896282: A car travels 20 mph. slower in a bad rain storm than in sunny weather. The car travels the same distance in 2 hours in sunny weather as it does in 3 hours in rainy weather. Find the speed of the car in sunny weather. (Directions for problem: Write as an equation. Don't solve!)
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Question 896281: A woman can hike 1 mph. faster down a trail to Cochita Lake than she can on the return trip uphill. It takes her 2 hours to get to the lake and 3 hours to return. What is her speed hiking down to the lake? (Directions for problem: Write as an equation. Don't solve!)
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Question 896280: Two cars are 200 miles apart and traveling towards each other on the same road. They meet in 2 hours. One car is traveling 4 mph. faster than the other car. What is the speed of each car? (Directions for problem: Write as an equation. Don't solve!)
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Question 896325: If I have traveled 7.2 miles in 50 minutes, what was my average speed?
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Question 896373: 1.) you're in a diving competition on the 3m springboard. you hit the water (3m below board) 1.6 seconds after you leave the board.
a. what's the initial upward velocity?
b. when do you pass the board again on the way down?
c. how high above the board did you go?
d. if another person steps off the 10m platform at the same time as you jump for the dive, who hits the water first? how much sooner?
2.) clare can paint a fence in 14 hours. john can paint the same fence in 12 hours. mr smith can paint the fence in 18 hours. if all 3 work together, how long will it take the three people to paint the fence?

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Question 896357: if a car moving at 60miles an hour moving fast or slower than 60feet per second,
prove your answer.

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Question 896279: S.F. and Santa Barbara are 690 miles apart. Jaclyn leaves Santa Barbara at the same time that Hannah leaves S.F., both driving towards each other. Hannah travels at a rate that is 10 mph. faster than Jaclyn. If they meet after 5 hours, how fast is each girl driving? (Directions for problem: Set up as an equation, don't solve it!)
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Question 896415: If my car holds 15-18 gallons of gas and my destination is 808 miles away which takes 36.73 gallons of gas to get to and I leave with a full tank of gas how many times will I have to fill it up?
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Question 896420: I live 15 miles from the gulf of Mexico in Ocala how high do I need to get to see the ocean?
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Question 896505: A motorcycle messenger left the rear of a motorized troop 7 miles long and rode to the front of the troop, returning at once to the rear. How far did he ride if the troop traveled 24 miles during this time and each traveled at a constant rate?
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Question 896554: How long does it take for a car to travel 8miles if your going 80mph
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Question 896560: Mrs paige drove 270 mi. Last week and used 6 gal. Of gas how many gal. Will she use if she drives 675 mi.
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Question 896560: Mrs paige drove 270 mi. Last week and used 6 gal. Of gas how many gal. Will she use if she drives 675 mi.
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Question 896560: Mrs paige drove 270 mi. Last week and used 6 gal. Of gas how many gal. Will she use if she drives 675 mi.
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Question 896566: How fast would a parked car have to travel in order to catch a car that passed it doing 68 mph ? Thanks.
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Question 896566: How fast would a parked car have to travel in order to catch a car that passed it doing 68 mph ? Thanks.
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Question 896579: A commuter airplane travels 40 Km per hour faster than the television news helicopter over the city. The commuter airplane travels 1350km during the same time that the television news helicopter travels only 1050 km. How fast does the commuter airplane fly? How fast does the TV news helicopter fly?
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Question 896606: In my Homework Im suppose to find how much time Joe will save if he didnt pick up his friend. I found out how far Joe is from the school which Im pretty sure is 16 miles. But I dont know how to find how much time he saves. Joe lives 12 miles from Dave, and Dave lives 20 miles from school.
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Question 896604: a train leaves the station at 1 pm It travels an average rate of 60 mi/hr A high speed train leaves the same station an hour later traveling at an average rate of 96 mi/hr The second train follows the same route as the first train on a parallel track In how many hours will the second train catch up with the first train
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Question 896523: Traveling downstream a certain boat went 17 km/h. Traveling upstream it only went 5 km/h. What is the speed of the current? How fast would the boat go if there were no current?
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Question 896625: Two airports, one in California and one in New York, are 3000 miles apart, A plane leaving California is traveling to New York at 200 miles per hour. Another plane leaving New York is traveling to California at 250 miles per hour. How long will it take them to meet?
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Question 896640: An aquarium is 26 inches long, 14 inches wide and 24 inches high. The volume of water in the aquarium is 7644 cubic inches. How deep is the water?

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Question 896576: A 7m long pool is surrounded by a path 2m wide at the sides and 3m wide at the ends
if the area of this path is 7o square meters , then the value of x is : ?

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Question 896639: Two trains leave the station at the same time, one heading east and the other west. The eastbound train travels at 65 miles per hour. The westbound train travels at 85 miles per hour. How long will it take for the two trains to be 270 miles apart?
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Question 896685: A boat travels for 3 hours with the current at speed of 10kph and returns the same distance against the current an hour more. Determine the boat's speed in still water.
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Question 896833: a police car moving at 150 km/h chases a speeding car moving at 120km/h. how much closer to the speeding car does the police car get each minute?
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Question 896817: Two bicyclists travel toward each other, each traveling at a uniform speed of 5 km/h. At the moment that they are 30 km apart, a bumblebee flies from the front wheel of one of the bikes at a uniform speed of 11 km/h directly to the wheel of the other bike. It touches it and turns around and returns at the same speed to the first bike, whereupon it touches the wheel and instantaneously turns around and repeats the back-and-forth trip over and over again--trips becoming shorter and shorter until the bikes collide and squash the unfortunate bee between the front wheels. How far does the bee travel?
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Question 896831: An automibile engineer found that the impact of a truck colliding at 16 km/h with concrete pillar caused the bumper to indent only 6.4 cm. The truck stopped. Determine the acceleration of the truck during the collision.
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Question 896850: an apple falls from a tree. It hits the ground at a speed of about 5 m/s what is approximate height of the tree? Why?
A) 1.2 b) 2.5 c) 2.4
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Question 896841: John sells soybeans seeds to seed companies. After he had driven 210 mi, 5/6 of his sales trip was completed. How long was the total trip? Translate and write the equation , the solve.
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Question 896845: Alice drives from Finley, Ohio to Richmond, Indiana to drop her sister off at school traveling at an average speed of 105 km/hr. On the way back she decides to drive a little slower at 95 km/hr. If her trip took a total of 8 hours, how far apart are the two towns?

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Question 896856: Problem: a train travelling at 180 mph passes a point in 6 seconds. The train has 10 carriages (including the engine) and each carriage is of equal length with no separation. What is the length of each carriage. My solution: 180 mph converts to 264 feet per second, therefore in 6 seconds = 1584 feet. Divide this bt the 10 carriages = 158.4 feet per carriage. Is this correct?
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Question 896862: Two buses leave Fort Lauderdale at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One bus averages 55 mi/h and the other bus averages 45 mi/h. When will they be 400 miles apart?

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Question 896852: Imagine a sprinter accelerates from rest to maximum speed of 10.8 m/s in 1.8s.in what time interval will he finish. 100 meter race if he keeps the speed constant at 10. 8 m/s for the last part of the race what assumpitions did you make? Please show your work.

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Question 896876: What is the average speed of a car that travels 7.2 X 10^4 meters in one hour?
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Question 896876: What is the average speed of a car that travels 7.2 X 10^4 meters in one hour?
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Question 896889: a bicyclist travels at a constant rate on her bicycle. Biking with the wind it takes 2.6 hours to travel 52 miles. Biking against the wind the return trip takes 4 hours. If there was no wind how fast was the cyclist biking

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Question 896917: Mary leaves her house at noon traveling in her car at 45mi/h later marts brother joe leaves their house and travels the same direction at 60mi/h if joe leaves at 2 pm at what time will he catch up with Mary

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Question 896906: A sprinter can run at a top speed of 0.348 miles per minute. Express her speed in m/s. I do not know what to convert to get to m/s?
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