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Question 922557: A plane traveled 200 miles before arriving in Cleveland. It then departed Cleveland and traveled at a speed of 395 miles per hour. Write an algebraic expression for the total distance it will have traveled when it reaches the next stop.
Thank you for your help.
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Question 922674: if the rate is 65 miles per hour how long will it take to travel 330 miles

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Question 922656: If Fred drove 62 1/2 miles in 2 1/2 hours. What is the unit rate in miles per hour??

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Question 922685: a boat travels 45 mi upstream (against the current) in 5h. The boat travels the same distance downstream in 3h. What is the rate of the current?
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Question 922701: two equal maximum sized circular plates are cut off from a circular paper sheet of circumference 352 cm. then the circumference of each circular plate is
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Question 922722: Sahara leaves town P and cycles towards town Q, 100 km away, at a speed of 5metres/second. Thirty minutes later, Robert leaves town Q, travelling towards town P at 9metres/second. How long has Robert been travelling when he meets Sandra?
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Question 922809: Paul, joey and Matt have to catch the train back to school at 5:00 pm. They want to tour the Air and Space museum for 1 hour and 45 miuntes, then spend 30 minutes in the gift shop, and save 20 minutes to walk to the train. what time should they start the tour?
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Question 923009: tom averaged a speed of 3mph one way to school and 5mph on his return trip from school. what is the total round trip distance to shool ? please explain answer. thanks, tim
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Question 923039: A sailboat travels 3 miles in 1.5 miles. The table shows the distance traveled by boat at various times.Complete the table.

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Question 923025: Lucy Steele drove 72 miles to a meeting and returned by the same route. She ddrove 5 miles per hours slower and the trip took 12 minutes longer. What was her speed on the way to the meaning

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Question 923113: A driver drove at 80 kph for 20 minutes of a one -hour trip. His average speed for the whole trip is 75 kph. What was his average speed for the other 40 minutes of the trip
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Question 923198: a pilot flies 540 miles in 2 hours. at this rate, how far can the pilot travel in 15 hours?
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Question 923240: Your car gets 27 miles per gallon of gasoline. How far can your car go on 5 gallons of gas
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Question 923237: Stephanie rides her bike 2 miles to the post office, then another 50 yards to the train station. how many yards long was her trip?

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Question 923355: A car leaves town at 72 km/hr. An hour later, a second car leaves the same town, on the same road, traveling at 90 km/hr. In how many hours will the second car catch up to the first?
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Question 923422: How long will it take to drive 120 km traveling at a constant speed of 90 km per hour ?
Please show working out.
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Question 923430: a cargo plane and a private jet leaves at the same time from the same airport, traveling in opposite directions. the jet travels at twice the speed of the cargo plane. they are 2400 mi apart in 4 hours. find the speed of the cargo plane and jet
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Question 923517: At 8:00 A.M., a train leaves a station and travels at a rate of 48 mph. At 9:00 A.M., a second train leaves the same station on the same track and travels in the direction of the first train at a speed of 64 mph. At 10:00 A.M., how far apart are the two trains?
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Question 923524: If a basketball is thrown in a distance of 60 feet in 0.5 seconds , what is its speed?

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Question 923491: A boat travels 42 miles up the river in the same amount of time it takes to travel 58 miles down the same river. If the current is 4 miles per hour, what is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 923572: a car travelled 16 miles on a road in 2 hours. how many feet per second was the car traveling
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Question 923562: Flying to Casablanca with a tailwind a plane averaged 188 km/h. On the return trip the plane only averaed 154 km/h while flying back into the same wind. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 923602: if tom and lynn were working on a garden together. and tom was able to prepare a whole garden in about 8 hours and lynn was able to do it in 12 hours. how long would it take for both tom and lynn working together to prepare a whole garden?
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Question 923551: If u go 85 miles per hour 80 mile road trip how many hours would it take
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Question 923611: I need help solving this problem.
A paddle boat can move at a speed of 4km/h in still water. The boat is paddled 14km downstream in a river in the same time it takes to go 7km upstream. What is the speed of the river?
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Question 923640: A car travels 5km in 20 minutes how far does it
Travel in 1 minute.
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Question 923648:
There are 36 people riding in the first train car. The second train car has the number of people that are in the first car.

How many people are riding in the second train car?
Express your answer in simplest form.

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Question 923672: Alan runs 7 miles in 80 minutes. At the same rate, how many miles would he run in 64 minutes?
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Question 923698: What is the acceleration of a vehicle that changes its velocity from 100 km/h to a dead stop in 50 s ? Answer in units of m/s

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Question 923702: on a certain river, a paddle boat travels 8 miles upstream against the current in the same amount of time it travels 16 miles downstream with the current . If the current of the river is 2 miles per hour determine the speed of the boat in still water
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Question 923757: A car and a truck start at the same point and travel in opposite directions. The car travels 8 mi per hour faster than the truck. After 3 hours the car and the truck are 354 mi apart. Find the average speed of the car and truck.
I did 3(x+8)=354. X+y=118
3y=354. y=118
But it makes no sense. Im trying to do it like ive been doing the upstream down stream but cant figure it out. Please help! Thank you!
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Question 923773: suppose you know a friends's distance, and time for a race. How would you find your friend's rate of travel?
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Question 923783: Tom runs
10
miles in
85
minutes. At the same rate, how many minutes would he take to run
8
miles?
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Question 923772: suppose you know a friends's distance, and time for a race.
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Question 923791: Two cyclists start from the same point at the same time and move in opposite directions. One cyclist is traveling at 7 mph, and the other cyclist is traveling at 9 mph. After 15 min, how far apart are the two cyclists?
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Question 923821: If an object travels 55 miles per hour, how far will it travel in 5 hours?

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Question 923828: How long would it take an average guy to walk 55 miles cross country ?
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Question 923832: an electric lift can raise a 550.00 kg mass a distance of 15.0 meters in 8.5 seconds. whats is the power of the lift?
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Question 923856: Nick went on a bike ride to a store 5 miles away. It took him half an hour to get there and 2/5 of an hour to get back. what was nick's average rate of speed(miles per hour) for the entire trip? answer in decimal form and round to the nearest hundredth when necessary.
How do you do this problem?
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Question 923717: The distance a ball rolls down an inclined plane is directly proportional to the square of the time it rolls. During the first second the ball rolls 8 feet.
Write an equation relating the distance traveled to the time.
How far will the ball roll during the first 3 seconds?
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Question 923894: How long will it take to get 26 miles away if I'm going 70 miles per hour?
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Question 923899: On a map 1 inch represents 3 miles.how many miles long is a road that is 2 1/2 inches long on a map?
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Question 923904: [A freight train leaves town at 40 mph. A second train leaves town 3 hours later at 56 mph. How many hours after the first train leaves will the second overtake the first train?]
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