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Question 898520: Please help me solve this problem: Two hikers start from the same point and hike in opposite directions around a lake whose shoreline is 11 mi long. One hiker walks 0.5 mph faster than the other hiker. How fast did each hiker walk if they meet in 2 h?
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Question 898564: A plane leaves an airport at 2 P.M. At 3 P.M., another plane leaves the same airport traveling in the same direction at a speed that is 150 mph faster than that of the first plane. Four hours after the first plane takes off, the second plane is 300 mi ahead of the first plane. How far did the second plane travel?
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Question 898578: You can Jog at speed of 8 miles per hour, and run at speed of 12 miles per hour. If you traveled 6 miles in 40 minutes, find the amount of time you jogged as well as the amount of time you ran.
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Question 898579: John and Mary, two longtime friends, are located in two separate towns that are two hundred miles apart connected by a straight highway. They decide to meet one another along the highway. John starts driving at 9:00 AM traveling at 60 mph(miles per hour). Mary starts driving at 9:00 AM at 40 mph. What time do they meet? How far is the meeting point from the midpoint of the two towns? Assume that their speeds do not change and that they do not stop along the trip.
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Question 898553: Some hotels in Las Vegas use moving sidewalks to transport guests between various destinations. Suppose a hotel guest decides to get on a moving sidewalk that is 195 ft long. If the guest walks at a rate of 4 ft/s and the moving sidewalk moves at a rate of 8 ft/s, how many seconds will it take the guest to walk from one end of the moving sidewalk to the other?
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Question 898640: The time (in hours) it takes to travel a given distance at 55 mi/h if d is the given distance (in mi).
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Question 898647: The time needed to travel a distance of y units if the speed x is reduced by 2.

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Question 898673: a car and a train pass each other at noon. the train is eastbound and its average speed is 45mph . the car is westbound and its average speed is 60mph. when will the car and train be 14 miles apart?
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Question 898678: two high sped cars leave at the same time from a city to the same island. the first car travels at 34 mph. the second car travels at 24 mph. in how many hours will the two cars be 30 miles apart?
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Question 898685: Two trucks leave a warehouse at the same time traveling in opposite directions. The rate of the faster truck is 3.5 miles per hour faster than the rate of the slower truck. After 6 hours, the trucks are 663 miles apart. Find the rates of each truck.
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Question 898689: Greg runs

7
miles in

60
minutes. At the same rate, how many miles would he run in

24
minutes?
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Question 898798: a road trip took 3.0 hours to drive from point a to point b. they averaged 95 miles/hour in the drive. How far did they drive (in kilometers)?
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Question 898756: What was their average speed in miles per hour from 10am to 2pm
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Question 898819: If you were traveling on a train going 70 mph and decided to run from front to the rear of the train at a speed of 8 mph how fast would you be going when you reach the caboose
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Question 898767: You and your friend part at an intersection. You drive off north at a constant speed, and your friend drives east at a speed that is 9 mph higher. After 3 hours the distance between you and your friend is 282.78 miles. You have been driving at _______ mph.
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Question 898879: what is the average speed of a car that traveled 6000 miles in 4 hours

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Question 898499: A girl walks down a moving subway escalator. It takes her one minute to go from the street level to the subway platform. If she has walked twice as fast as before, it would take her 45 seconds to go down. How long will it take her standing on the escalator?
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Question 898906: a driver averaged 44 miles per hour and took 5 hours to travel between two cities. what is the distance between the two cities
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Question 898917: A bicyclist travels at a constant rate on her bicylce. 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 898901: If a bullet travels at 759 m/s , what is its speed in miles per hour?

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Question 898928: You are traveling 50mph. How much time passes when you have traveled 120 miles?

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Question 898986: if it takes me 20 minutes to drive 14 miles how long will it take me to drive 211 miles?
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Question 898990: If you travel at 60 mph and hour for 4.5 hours, how many miles would you have covered?
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Question 899043: A cyclist travels 56 miles in 4 hours. What is the cyclists speed in feet per second?

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Question 899041: Norman drove 500 miles in 6 hours find the rate of speed
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Question 899068: Jenny, who rides a moped, takes 2 hours less to travel 60 miles than Maureen takes to travel 50 miles on her bicycle. Jenny travels 10 miles per hour faster than Maureen. (Hint: speed = distance � time.)
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Question 899021: a plane flies east at 210km/h for 3 hours, then turns around and flies west at 170km/h for 2 hours.... find the average velocity and average speed?
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Question 899136: Nita ran 7.5 kilometers in 42 minutes.
Find Nina�s speed in kilometers per hour
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Question 899111: If you travel at 55 miles per hour, how long will it take to travel 425 miles?
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Question 899138: On average, Tyrone�s truck will travel
19 miles per gallon of gas. How many
kilometers per liter of gas will the truck
travel? (1 liter = 0.26 gallons)
(1 mile = 1.61 kilometers)
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Question 899144: How long dies it take a boat traveling 40 km an hour to cross a lake that is 2.0 km wide?

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Question 899144: How long dies it take a boat traveling 40 km an hour to cross a lake that is 2.0 km wide?

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Question 899155: Henry drove to the mountains last weekend. There was heavy traffic on the way there, and the trip took 10 hours. When Henry drove home, there was no traffic and the trip only took 7 hours. If his average rate was 18 miles per hour faster on the trip home, how far away does Henry live from the mountains?
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Question 899137: The area of Jami�s yard is 250 ft
2
. Find
the area of Jami�s yard in square meters.
(1 meter = 3.28 feet)
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Question 899172: how long does it take a girl riding her bike at 2.50 m/s to travel 1800m?
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Question 899170: how far will a man travel in 15 min, driving his car down the highway at 24 m/s?
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Question 899286: A plane flies 8 miles south from the airport then 15 miles east. It then goes in a straight line back to the airport. What is the distance of this last leg back to the airport?
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Question 899295: if you travel 30 mph, how long will it take to go 250 miles?
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Question 899277: a car traveled 300 miles on 15 gallons of gas (miles per gallons)
ratio of two measurements
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Question 899263: From Wednesday you drove home from work at 58 mph and got there in 50 minutes. On Thursday you drove 6mph faster. How much time did you save? Round answer to the nearest 10th.
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Question 899368: Rates and ratios
1. on a 2 hour journey pertov drove at 90km/h for the first hour and 50km/h for the second hour. what was the average speed?
2. on a 200km journey, ogla drove at 90km/h for he first 100km and 50km/h for the rest. what was her average speed?
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Question 899406: I have to travel 10 kilometers. I am going 7.5 mph. How many minutes will it take?
thanks
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Question 899423: Two cars raced at a race track. The faster car traveled 20 mph faster than the slower car. In the time that the slower car traveled 165 miles, the faster car traveled 225 miles. If the speeds of the cars remained constant, how fast did the slower car travel during the race?
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Question 899410: An eastbound train and a westbound train meet each other on parallel tracks heading in opposite directions. The eastbound train travels 4 miles per hour faster than the westbound train. After 2.5 hours, they are 300 miles apart. At what speeds are the two trains traveling?
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