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Question 927255: Two trains leave the station at the same time, one heading west and the other east. The westbound train travels 20 miles per hour slower than the eastbound train.
If the two trains are 510 miles apart after 3 hours, what is the rate of the westbound train?
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Question 927253: Grandma lives 40 miles away. How fast do I need to go to get there in 30 minutes?
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Question 927262: A car travels 2/5 mile in 1/2 minute. What is the car's speed in miles per hour? Explain how you determined your answer.

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Question 927262: A car travels 2/5 mile in 1/2 minute. What is the car's speed in miles per hour? Explain how you determined your answer.

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Question 927296: A car started out from Memphis toward Little Rock at the rate of 60 km/h. A second car left from the same point 2 hours later and drove along the same route at 75 km/h. How long did it take the second car to overtake the first car?
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Question 927326:
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Question 927340: Mary and John both completed a trip up an escalator. John took 15 steps on the way up and took 12 seconds to reach the top. Mary took only 7 steps up, and took 18 seconds to reach the top. how many steps does the escalator have in total?
A) 28
B) 29
C) 30
D) 31
E) 32
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Question 927387: If a passenger train travels two times as fast as a freight train, and freight train takes 3 hours longer to travel 210 miles, what is the speed of each train?
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Question 927373: A train traveling at a speed of 30 mph passes point A on its way to point B. At the same time, on a parallel track, another train traveling at a speed of 70 mph passes point B on its way to point A. If point A and point B are 300 miles apart, how far from point B will the trains meet?
(F) 240 mi
(G) 210 mi
(H) 150 mi
(J) 140 mi
(K) 90 mi
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Question 927380: Michael usually walks to his school. It takes less than 15 minutes. When it is raining Michael's mom drives him to school. This is faster than walking, but it takes more than 5 minutes. Give all the possible answers for the number of minutes that it takes Michael to walk to school.
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Question 927438: Andy is boating on a river. He travels 7 miles downriver in half an hour. He then returns 7 miles upriver in 52.5 minutes. If the speed of the river is constant, what is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 927447: two train leave Chicago at the same time, traveling in opposite directions. One travels east at 60 mph and the other travels west at 75 mph. How long will it be before they are 540 miles apart?
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Question 927409: a car travls from city x to city y,a distance of 50 miles in 5 hours.what is the average speedof car in miles per hour?

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Question 927455: Mr. Sanchez makes a business trip from his house to the city in 2 hours. One hour later, he returns home in heavy traffic at a rate of 20 kph(kilometers per hour) less than his going rate. If Mr. Sanchez was gone a total of 6 hours, how fast did he travel on each of the trip?
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Question 927422: A sailboat takes 4 hours to travel 128 km going upstream. The return trip takes 2 hours going down stream. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 927488: A riverboat cruise upstream on a river, takes 8 hr and covers 224 mi. The return trip downstream with the current takes only 7 hr. Find the speed of the riverboat in still water and the speed of the current.
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Question 927508: A child is running on a moving sidewalk in an airport. When she runs against the sidewalk's motion, she travels 40 ft in 8 seconds. When she runs with the sidewalk's motion, she travels 132 ft in 12 seconds. What is the rate of the child on a still sidewalk and what is the rate of the moving sidewalk?
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Question 927535:
Question: 2/20

If a dog runs 1/2miles in 1/1o hour, what is its rate in miles per hour?

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Question 927557: If the distance traveled is 3 laps when the time is 4 minutes, what is the number of laps when the time is 7 minutes?
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Question 927531: A brother and sister walk home from school at the same constant speed. One day fifteen minutes after they left the school the sister realized she had forgotten her lunch bag. The brother ran back to the school, picked up the lunch bag, and ran after his sister. After the brother caught up with the sister, the siblings continued at their regular speed, but arrived home 6 minutes later than usual. How many times faster than their normal walking speed did the brother run?
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Question 927656: how many feet per minute does a 22 rifle travel
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Question 927656: how many feet per minute does a 22 rifle travel
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Question 927640: Walking, peter could reach school in 20 mins. His mother can drive him to school in 6 mins. One day Peter left school at exactly 3:00 and started walking home. At the same time his mother started her journey from home to school to pick him up. At what time did the mother meet Peter?
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Question 927163: Al is 100 yards from Bill and Bill is 300 yards from Chuck. They all move to the right at constant speeds. In 6 minutes, Al overtakes Bill and in another 6 minutes, Al overtakes Chuck. How many minutes does it take Bill to overtake Chuck?
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Question 927722: Find The time in seconds to cover a distance of 450 meters at an average speed of 10 meters per seconds
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Question 927771: Two small planes start from the same point and fly in opposite directions. The first plane is flying 70 mph slower than the second plane. In 3 h, the planes are 870 mi apart. Find the rate of each plane
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Question 927769: After a sailboat had been on the water for 3 h, a change in the wind direction reduced the average speed of the boat by 3 mph. The entire distance sailed was 54 mi. The total time spent sailing was 5 h. How far did the sailboat travel in the first 3 h
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Question 927748: 12 miles in 2. 4 hours how many miles traveled in 5 hours?
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Question 927673: Jake paddled a canoe 4 miles upstream at a constant speed of 10 mph. He then turned around and paddled downstream until he reached his original starting place. If the entire trip took him 9 hours, how fast was the speed of the river current?

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Question 927788: the average rate of a bus is 14 miles per hour more than the average rate of a truck. the truck takes one hour longer than the bus to travel 280 miles. how long does the bus take to travel 280 miles
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Question 927849: If the speed of the car is increased by 10 km/hr, it takes 18 minutes less to cover a distance of 36 km. Find the speed of the car.
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Question 927846: The speed of an ordinary train is x km/hr and that of an express train is x+25 km/hr. (i) Find the time taken for each train to cover 300 km. (ii) If the ordinary tran takes 2 hrs more than the express train; calculate the speed of the express train.
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Question 928000: Shlomo travels 140 miles in 3 1/2 hours. How fast is he traveling
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Question 927992: two trains leave a station on different tracks that make an angle of 110 degrees with the station as the vertex. The first train travels at an average rate of 45 mph, and the second travels at a rate of 50 mph. how far are the trains after 3 hours?
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Question 928034: Zach paddled a canoe 2 miles upstream in a river that has a current of 3 mph. He then turned around and paddled downstream until he reached his original starting place. If the entire trip took him 7 hours, how fast would Zach paddle in still water?
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Question 928030: A boy traveled 100 km north from his house, traveled 70 km west and finally 60 km north. What is his distance from his house?
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Question 928018: Two bicyclists leave a rest stop going in the same direction. Bicyclist A travels at 20 mph and bicyclist B travels at 15 mph. B leaves 3 hours before A. After how many miles will A catch up to B?
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Question 928091: a bus starting from one station to another station in 45 minutes with the speed of 40 km/hr. if the speed increased by 10 km/hr how much time it will take to cover the same distance???. wiki give me the answer
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Question 928089: a bus starting from one point to another point in 45 minutes with the speed of 40 km/hr. if the speed increased by 10 km/hr how much time it will take to cover the same distance. wiki

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Question 928138: sasha drove from her house to the grocery store in 20 minutes.her return trip took 15 minutes . if the store is 7 milies from her house what waas sasha average speed for the round trip, in milies per hour
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Question 928281: If a batter runs 19mph how many seconds does it take to run 90 feet after he hit a ball 245.7 feet
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Question 928245: Deon runs 6 miles in 55 minutes. At the same rate how many miles would he run in 44 minutes ?
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