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Question 906487: Terrance jogged 4,380 meters yesterday. If 1 mile equals abour 1,603 kilometers, about how many miles did Terrance jog?
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Question 906487: Terrance jogged 4,380 meters yesterday. If 1 mile equals abour 1,603 kilometers, about how many miles did Terrance jog?
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Question 906065: Chris and Gilbert drove a total of 459 miles in 11.8 hours. Chris drove the first part of the trip and averaged 35 miles per hour. Gilbert drove the remainder of the trip and averaged 55 miles per hour. For what length of the time did Chris drive?
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Question 906519: Jane leaves her house and drives in a straight line at a speed of 40 mph. Her speed on the return trip is 50 mph. The trip back home takes 10 minutes less than the outbound trip. What was Jane's total travel time in hours? Assume both trips are in a straight line. Give your final answer as a simplified fraction.

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Question 906532: A motor boat goes downstream twice as fast as upstream. Find the power speed of the boat if the water flows at 6km/h.
This is what I've came up with:
Let x be the time of going upstream
(and I'm terribly stuck)
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Question 906582: long will it take a bus traveling 72 km/hr to go 13 kms
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Question 906604: A biker rides700m north 300m east 400m north, 100m west 1200m south 300m east and finally 100m north .draw the path of motion of the biker. What distance did he cover?what was his displacement?
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Question 906536: a girl walks 500m towards east and then 1200m towards north .Find her distance from the starting point.
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Question 906630: A motorboat maintained a constant speed of 15 miles per hour relative to the water in going 10 miles upstream and then returning. The total time for the trip was 1.5 hours. Use this information to find the speed of the current.
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Question 906644: A boat travels 84 miles in 6 hours (with a constant speed). How much time will it traveling 378 kilometers?
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Question 906672: Anna and Pat are 15 miles apart and start walking torward eachother at noon. Anne walks 3 mph and Pat walks 2mph. When will they meet?
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Question 906664: Stephanie runs to the top of a hill and back down again. She runs at 3.5 miles per hour up the hill and 4 miles per hour down the hill. If the total round trip takes 2 hours, how many minutes did it take Stephanie from the top of the mountain back to the bottom?
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Question 906785: Kangaroos have been clocked at speeds of 63.0 km/h. How long will it take a kangaroo to hop 0.27 km at this speed?
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Question 906791: A plane leaves an airport at 3 P.M. At 4 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 250 mi ahead of the first plane. How far did the second plane travel?
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Question 906844: A pilot flies 150mph in still air. He flies with the wind 4 hours to Albuquerque and then against the wind 9 hours to Miami.

PLEASE ANSWER AS SOON AS YOU CAN !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Question 906828: a pilot flies 150mph in still air. He flies with the wind 4 hours to Albuquerque and then against the wind 9 hours to Miami.
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Question 906945: A duck and a chicken are walking to school. One way, the trip takes 2 hours for the duck and 3 hours for the chicken, since the chicken lives 40 miles farther away than the duck. The chicken travels 5 mph faster than the duck. Find their average rates of travel.
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Question 906964: A duck and a chicken are walking to school. One way, the trip takes 2 hours for the duck and 3 hours for the chicken, since the chicken lives 40 miles farther away than the duck. The chicken travels 5 mph faster than the duck. Find their average rates of travel.
* You are supposed to get 55 mph for the duck and 60 mph for the chicken as the answer but I cannot figure out how my teacher got these solutions.
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Question 907010: In a white water relay race one kayak team averaged 26km/h downstream but only 6km/h upstream. What was the rate of the kayak in still water? What was the rate of the current. Solve by creating 2 equations then by substitution
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Question 907064: A car travels in a straight line for 4.9 hours at a constant speed of 64 km/hr. What is its' acceleration? Answer in units of m/s2 Wouldn't the acceleration be zero since there is constant speed?
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Question 907184: Dale invested his savings in two investment funds. The $8000 he invested in Fund A return a 10% profit. The amount he invested in Fund B returned a 3% profit. How much did he invest in Fund B, if both funds together returned a 7% profit?
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Question 907182: at exactly 12:00 pm two cars heading in opposite directions are aligned in parallel lanes of a highway. One car is moving 45 mph the other 55 mph. At what time will the cars be 20 miles apart?
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Question 907295: A train leaves New Orleans at 6:00PM. The second train leaves the same city traveling in the same direction at 8:00PM. The second train travels 46 mph faster than the first. If the second train overtakes the first at 10:00PM , what is the speed of each train?
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Question 907288: An investor divided $4,000 into two unequal parts. One of them was invested at 5.5% annual simple interest, and the other at 6.7%.
After 1 year, the interest on both investments was $253.
Find how much money was invested at 5.5%.

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Question 907287: Two planes are 2400 mi apart and traveling toward each other. One plane is traveling 80 mph faster than the other plane. The planes pass each other in 2.5 h. Find the speed of each plane.
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Question 907046: Pete travels 60 miles in an hour. The first 20 miles he travels at a speed of 50 mph. Another third of the way he travels 60 mph. How fast did he travel the last 20 miles to make it to the train station in one hour. Show all work if possible.
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Question 907206: Two buses leave Phoenix at the same time traveling in opposite directions. One bus travels at
55
mph and the other at
58
mph. How soon will they be
847.5
miles apart?
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Question 907207: using a variable expression find the distance traveled by a truck moving at an average speed of 65 miles per hour for 6 hours. use the formula: Distance d equals rate times time t
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Question 907346: If 1 hour is 5% of the time for a trip , how long will the trip take?
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Question 907330: a jet is travelling at 500 miles per hour determine the velocity of the jet in metres per second
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Question 907348: If a car is travelling 63.5 km per hour, how long would it take to drive 889 km?
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Question 907435: Motion - Two cars leave school, one car heads Eastbound on I-88 heading towards Chicago at 70 mph. A second car heads Westbound on I-88 heading towards Rockford at a rate of 55 mph. How long until the two cars are 25 miles apart?
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Question 781076: I need help solving the following equation or how to solve it. Samantha ran on a fitness track for 20 mins. She walked for 10 mins. Her running rate was 250ft per minute faster than her walking rate. If she ran and walked a total of 15,500ft, how fast did she run?
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Question 907382: samantha ran on a fitness track fo 20 minutes and then walked for 10 minutes. her running rate was 250 ft per minute faster than her walking rate. if she ran and walked a total of 15,500 ft, how fast did she run?
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Question 907120: betty went at a speed of 90 km/h for 1.9 h, stopped for lunch for 1 h, and then traveled at 125 km/h for 7.8 h. What was her average speed?
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Question 907451: two pedestrians simultaneously left two villages 27 km apart and walked toward eachother. one walked 4km per hour and the other walked 6km per hour. after how long did they meet?
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Question 907271: A motorboat maintained a constant speed of 12 miles per hour relative to the water in going 45 miles upstream and then returning. the total time for the trip was 8.0 hours. Use this information to find the speed of the current
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Question 907494: Hello,
It's been awhile since I asked this question. I have not gotten any response yet.
If a paper plane is thrown from the top of an 147ft cliff into water,the height of the plane at any given time can be determined by h = -3t^2 + 147, where h is the height of plane at t seconds. After how many seconds will the plane be at height of 20.25ft?
I have h = 3t^2 + 147
h(t) = 3^2 + 147 - 20.25ft
147 = 3t^2 = 6t = 147
0 = 3t^2 + 6t
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Question 907459: Please help me with this problem it took 10 seconds to walk 15feet how faat was he walking in feet per second

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Question 907498: journey of 100 km in 3.5 hrs
Part travelled 32 km/hr and rest at 24 km/hr
how far travelled at each speed?

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Question 907548: ricardo rides his bicycle 16 miles per hour. if he rides for 15 minutes,about how far does he travel?
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Question 907568: A car travels 100 miles east in 2 hours and 30 miles north in half an hour. What is the average speed of the car?
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