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Question 916204: Bill's car traveled 160 miles on 9 gallons of gas. How many gallons does Bill's car need to travel 640 miles?
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Question 915960: Sam averages 65 miles per hour on a road trip. How many hours will it take him to drive?
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Question 915707: you roll a toy car down a ramp that is 1 meter long. it takes 5 seconds to hit the bottom, what is its speed in meters per seconds?
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Question 915832: If you have to travel 264 miles away and that the average speed is 55 mph how long would it take
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Question 915706: if i drive 20 miles to school, and it takes me 30 minutes to get here, what is my average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 916369: if i ran at a speed of 5mph for 12 minutes how many miles would i have run?

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Question 916369: if i ran at a speed of 5mph for 12 minutes how many miles would i have run?

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Question 916385: An airplane flying with the wind travels faster than it would with no wind.what happens when the airplane files against the wind?
A. There is no chance
B.it cannot fly against the wind
C it flies faster
D.it flies shower
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Question 916383: how far will a car travel at 60mph for 3 1/2 hours?
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Question 916383: how far will a car travel at 60mph for 3 1/2 hours?
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Question 916460: how many minutes is a car ride that is 2.3 miles
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Question 916459: Kids were selling tickets for their play. Adults were $6 and children were $3. They sold 79 tickets for $375. How many kid tickets did they sell and how many adult tickets did the sell?
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Question 916456: Tim takes 25 minutes to run 3 kilometres. How long does it take him to run 1 kilometre?

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Question 916533: With a tail wind, a small plane traveled 420 miles in 1 hour and 30 minutes. The return trip against the same wind took 30 minutes longer. Find the wind speed and the air speed of the plane
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Question 916547: A man travels a distance of 20 miles at 60 miles per hour and then returns over the same route at 40 miles per hour. What is his average rate for the round trip in miles per hour?
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Question 916085: I need help with this problem please
John is on an Island in Lake Cavenacci three miles from the nearest point on the shore. Hootersville is 5 miles away as the crow flies. John can row 2mph and walk 4mph. John wishes to travel to Hootersville by rowing and walking in the shortest time. How far from hootersville should John land his rowboat on the beach. Hint: Use graphics calculator
Can you please explain how to do it because I am unsure of how to set the problem up and have been unable to get the right answer.

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Question 916609: If you ran 3 miles in one hour how long did it take you to run one and three fourths of a mile?
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Question 916641: John Jr. can construct 180 boxes in an hour. John Sr. can only construct 20 boxes in an hour. Working together, how many minutes will it take them to construct 600 boxes?
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Question 916639: Two bicyclists are 200 miles apart when they start racing towards one another. If their speeds are 12 mph and 6 mph respectively, how much time will elapse before they are 20 miles apart?

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Question 916657: A plane travels 702 miles in 1 hour and 18 minutes. What is the average speed of the plane?
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Question 916626: The height h in feet of an object thrown upward from a height of 5 feet, with an initial velocity of 30 feet per second, is given by the equation h=-16t^2+30t+5, where h represents the height of the object after t seconds. How long will it take the object to hit the ground?
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Question 916628: behind it a small plane can fly 240 miles in 3 hours.Fling the same distance into the same wind would take 4 hours.Find the speed of the plane with no wind.
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Question 916638: A biker's speed is 1.5 time faster than a walker's speed. They start moving simultaneously in the same direction from the same point, and after 1.5 hours, the distance between them is 12.5 miles. What are their speeds?
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Question 916684: If you drive 60 miles at 90 miles an hour, how many minutes will the trip take you?
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Question 916681: Austin drove
210
miles using
9
gallons of gas. At this rate, how many gallons of gas would he need to drive
413
miles?
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Question 916614: 5. A person runs
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Question 916766: A bus driver travels 1 200 km from one city to another,determine how many hours of travelling time it will take if his average speed is 75km/h.
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Question 916771: How long would it take to travel 1700 kilometers at 63 miles per hour
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Question 916773: How many km did the driver travel in 8 hours

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Question 916811: a bird flies 320 in 40 seconds whats is his speed?

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Question 916866: Can you please explain how to get the answer to the following question. A train leaves the station at 4:00pm traveling west at 50 miles per hour. On a parallel track, a second train leaves the station at 8:00 Pm traveling west at 70 mile per hour. At what time will the second train catch up with the first?
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Question 916874: A pilot flies a plane at a constant speed of 5 hours and 30 minutes, traveling 715 miles. Find the speed of the plane in mph... Show work
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Question 916888: Kareem drove to the mountains last weekend. There was heavy traffic on the way there, and the trip took
6
hours. When Kareem drove home, there was no traffic and the trip only took
4
hours. If his average rate was
22
miles per hour faster on the trip home, how far away does Kareem live from the mountains?
Do not do any rounding.
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Question 916877: Two cars pass on a straight highway while traveling in opposite directions. One car is traveling 6 miles per hour faster than the other car. After 1.5 hours the two cars are 171 miles apart. Find the speed of each car. Show work.
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Question 916897: Two cars pass on a straight highway while traveling in opposite directions. One car is traveling 6 mph faster than the other car. After 1.5 hours the two cars are 171 miles apart. Find the speed of each car. Show work
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Question 916821: The distance traveled by a vehicle varies directly to the amount of fuel it consumes. The vehicle traveled 95 miles on 5 gallons of fuel. At the same rate, how far would the vehicle travel on 4 gallons of fuel?
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Question 916905: Kylie was on a long 330 mile road trip. The first part of the trip there was lots of traffic, she only averaged 25 mph. The second part of the trip there was no traffic so she could drive 56 mph. If the trip took her 7 hours, how long did she travel at each speed?

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Question 916926: If a plane travels at 240km/h for 20 seconds, how far does it go?

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Question 916920: Please help me with this problem:
You are on a island in Lake Mercedes two miles from the coast. The nearest point on the coast is point P. The coast is a straight line for ten miles on each side of P. You are to travel to a certain point Q in the shortest time. This point Q is located three miles along the coast from P than one mile inland. You can row at 2mph and walk at 4mph. Find the distance x from P where you should land your boat to travel from the island to Q in the least time. Hint use graphics utility.
If your able to help can you please explain how to do the problem and how to set it up.
Thank you
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Question 916938: My car gets 17 miles per gallon in the city and 45 miles per gallon on the highway. Suppose I used 12.174 gallons of gas and got an average of 22 miles per gallon for the trip.
How many gallons did I use for each part of the trip?
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Question 916948: how many miles could this car travel on 5 gallons of gasoline at the same speed

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Question 916974: in the morning May drove to an appointment at 50 mph. her average speed on the return trip in the afternoon was 40 mph. the return trip took 1/2 hour longer . how far did she travel to the appointment
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