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Question 915126: How do you solve this word problem... car A leaves travelling 60 miles per hour. Car B leaves 2 hours later travelling 80 miles per hour. At what time does the second car meet the first car?
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Question 915146: hi, I am wondering if you can tell me if I go 120km/h how long will it take me to reach 4.25 km
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Question 915135: Please help me with this problem as soon as possible: when two buses leave detroit at the same time one travels at 60 miles an hour and the other one travels at 62 miles apart how long will it be until they are 610 miles apart
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Question 915230: Raul can drive 2 times as fast as manuel can ride his bicycle. If it takes manuel 2 hours longer than raul to travel 96 miles, how fast can manuel ride his bicycle?
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Question 915188: 5 plus 8
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Question 915226: Pam and Cindy, working together, can rake The yard in 5 hours. working alone, Cindy takes five times as long as pam. How long does it take pam to rake The yard alone?
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Question 915238: The rectangular field is 72 m by 58 m . Keya walks around it at the rate of 3 km per hour. How long will she take to make 3 rounds...
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Question 915247: an animal can runabout 5 feet per second. At this rate, how long will it take the animal to travel 1 mile? give answers in seconds and minutes

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Question 915232: Gemma recently rode her bicycle to visit her friend who lives 12 miles away. On her way there, her average speed was 10 miles per hour faster than on her way home. If gemma spent a total of 1 hour bicycling,find The two rates?
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Question 915210: A boat crew rowed 13.5 miles with the current in 1.5 hours. The return trip against the current covered the same distance but took 4.5 hours. Find crews rate in still water and rate of current.
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Question 915309: 30 miles is 5/6 of the way home, what is the total distance?
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Question 915317: A plane set off to Houston at a speed of 218 mph. On the return flight of 15 hours,
the plane cruised at 233 mph. How many hours long was the flight to Houston?
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Question 915326: A car traveled 476 miles on 13 6/10 gallons of gas. How many miles per gallon did it get
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Question 915414: Tara traveled 3 hours on the free way she then decreased her speed by 20 mph and traveled 4 hrs on a country road. Her trip was a total of 375 miles. What was her speed on the freeway?
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Question 915420: The distance is 400 km. one car leaves with speed of 80 km
Per hour, the other car with speed of 50 km per hour. When they will meet?
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Question 915431: The average rate of speed for a journy of 360 miles in t hours
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Question 915435: A runner has an initial velocity of 4 meters per second. after 20 seconds, the runners velocity is 6 meters per second. What is the runners acceleration?

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Question 915440: Jack drove to New York City at 60 mph. Jill drove to the city at 40mph. If their combined travel time was 15 hours, how far away was the city?
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Question 915520: If a jet can travel 600 mph, how long in seconds will it take the jet to travel 5 miles?

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Question 915520: If a jet can travel 600 mph, how long in seconds will it take the jet to travel 5 miles?

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Question 915519: Bob left work and traveled to school at an average speed of 25 mph. If it took Bob 35 minutes to reach school, how far is Bob's school from his place of work?
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Question 915560: A tour bus leaves Sacramento every Friday evening at 5:00 P.M. for a 264-mile trip to Las Vegas. This week, however, the bus leaves at 5:15 P.M. To arrive in Las Vegas on time, the driver drives 8 miles per hour faster than usual. What is the bus's usual speed?
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Question 915598: ashley's parents drives in one car at a steady rate of 40 miles per hour. Brittany's family leave 2 hours later and drives at a constant rate of 50 miles per hour. Both families arrive at the grandparents' house at the same time! what is the distance from ashley's house to the grandparents' house?

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Question 915644: A grocer wants to mix nuts costing 5.00 per kilogram with nuts costing 8.00 per kilogram to make a 10 kilogram mixture for 6.00 a kilogram. How much of each type should he mix.
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Question 915624: A pipe can fill a tank in 30 minutes. A second pipe can fill the same tank in 20 minutes. A drain can empty the tank in 15 minutes. If you left the drain open, how long will it take to fill the tank with both pipes open?
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Question 915661: How many kg of a 45% copper alloy must be added to 62kg of a 60% copper alloy to form an alloy, which is 50% copper.
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Question 915671: John traveled north from Miami at an average speed of 50mph. Two hours after he left, Sharon left from Miami traveling in the same direction at an average speed of 55 mph. HOw long will it take Sharon to catch up with John?
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Question 915677: Two cyclists are competing in a 12-mile race on a quarter-mile circular track. They began at the same time. One biker's average speed is 24 miles per hour. The other's average speed is 30 miles per hour. How many complete laps will the slower cyclist have left to complete after the faster cyclist finishes?
Ok so I know that it s a 12 Mile Race on a 1/4 mile track = 1/4 x 4 = 1 mile = 48 times around the track to make 12 miles.
I also know it took the 30 mile per hour cyclists .4 hours or 40 minutes to complete 12 miles. (i think)
This is where i get stuck.
Any help you can give me would be great. Thanks.

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Question 915694: to qualify for a lifeguard training course, you have to swim for 500 yards using either the front crawl or the breaststroke. You swim the front crawl at a rate of 45 yards per minute and the breaststroke at a rate of 35 yards per minute. You take 13 minutes to swim 500 yards. How much time did you spend swimming the front crawl?
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Question 915711: i walk 20 meters down the hall to my class and i make it there in 8 seconds. what is my speed in meters per seconds?
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Question 915729: A car leaves St. Paul, Minnesota at 4 pm. A bus leaves the same place at 5 pm and travels in the same direction as the car. the car is 12 mph faster than the bus. at 8 pm the vehicles are 100 mi apart. What is the speed of each vehicle?

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Question 915380: Two trains leave stations 476 miles apart at the same time and traveling towards each other. One train travels at 95 miles per hour while the other travels at 75 miles per hour. How long will it take for the two trains to meet?
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Question 915718: Ricardo runs 10 miles each Saturday. If he doubles his usual speed, he can run the 10 miles in one hour less than his usual time. What is his usual speed?
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Question 915717: A bicyclist races at 20 meters per second and beats her record by 12 seconds. The bicyclist races again at 18 meters per second and is over her record by 10 seconds. What was the distance of the race?
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Question 915737: 1. George runs 10 miles per hour and Bill runs 6 miles per hour. They start on a jogging course at the same time and George finishes 1 hour ahead of Bill. How long is the course?
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2. Karen takes 5 hours to count her store inventory. When Anna helps, they can count the inventory in 3 hours. How long will it take Anna to count inventory if she works alone?
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Question 915806: An airplane descends from 40,000 ft to 16,000 ft in 8 minutes. What is the rate of change in altitude?
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Question 915893: A woman walks 9 miles a day. How long does it take her to walk 3055 miles
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Question 915928: A car is driving 50 miles per hour. What is the speed of the car in feet per minute
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Question 915937: Johnny is in a hot air balloon that is at 900 feet and rising 5 ft per hour. Susie is in a hot air balloon that is 1240 feet high, falling at 12 ft per hour.
a) how long will it be until Johnny and Susie are at the same height?
900+5n=1240-12n
-900 +12 -900 +12
17n=340
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17 17
n=20
b) Use the equation and answer from part a to determine what height they will be when they meet. ????
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Question 915785: One train goes 90 km from town a to town b another train takes 2.5 hours longer to travel the same distance at 50 km per hour . How far away are the two towns
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Question 915935: Johnny is in a hot air balloon that is at 900 feet and rising 5 ft per hour. Susie is in a hot air balloon that is at 1240 feet and is falling at 12 ft per hour.
a) how long will it be until Johnny and Susie are at the same height?
900+5n=1240-12n
-900 +12n -900 +12n
17n=340
17n/17=340/17
n=20
b) Use the equation and answer from part a to determine what height they will be when they meet. ????
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Question 916034: If a plane and its (no apostrophe for its: his, hers, its) crew traveled 700km in 3 hours, how long would it take them to travel 2100km?
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Question 916141: If a truck is traveling at 100km/hour how long in minutes will it take to travel 70km
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Question 916287: How long does it take to walk 1 kilometre
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