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Question 928242: If you are walking 4 mph how long will it take you to walk 1800 miles?
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Question 928428: how fast would a airplane need to go to cover 2600 miles in 2hrs time
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Question 928430: Karen jogged at an average rate of 8 mph from her house to school. She walked home at a rate of 4 mph. If the entire trip took 3 hours, how far is it from her home to school?

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Question 928412: a boat can travel 22 miles up a river in the same amount of time that it takes to travel 36 miles down the same river if the boat travels 10 miles per hour in still water what is the speed of the current
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Question 928403: An airplane travels 1260 km in the same time a car travels 420 km. If the rate of the car is 120 kph less than the rate of the airplane, find the rate of each?

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Question 928398: On Friday , Garcia traveled 363 miles from tiptonville to oak ridge in 7.5 hours . if he travels at the same rate on Saturday , how far will he travel in 5 hours
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Question 928501: Marisa traveled 440 miles in 6 hours. If she traveled at the same rate the next day, how far could she go in 9 hours?

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Question 928539: How fast whould I have to be driving to go 2500 feet in 10 seconds
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Question 928533: My question is: If train A covers a distance of 320 kilometers in 8 hours, and train B covers the same distance in 5 hours, how much faster is train B than train A?
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Question 928547: Amy travels 600 kilometers in 4 hours. Find her average speed
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Question 928478: you drive along a highway at a constant speed of 58 miles per hour. How far do you travel in 4.5 hours?
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Question 928581: A motorboat traveled for 1 hour with a 2 mph current. The return trip against the same current took 2 hours. Find the speed of the motorboat in still water.
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Question 928589: A group of coworkers drove a car and a minivan to a conference. The car left first and traveled 50 mph. The minivan left 1/2 hour later and traveled at 60 mph. How long will it take the minivan to catch up to the car?
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Question 928613: Ericka drives from school to soccer practice 1.3 miles away. it takes her 7 minutes. What fraction represents her constant speed if it takes her x minutes to drive exactly 1 mile?

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Question 928632: Melissa lives 9/10 mile from her school. She lives 6/20 mile from the library. How much closer does Melissa live to the library than to her school.
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Question 928638: May rides her bike the same distance that Leah walks. May rides her bike 10 km/h faster than Leah walks. If it takes May 1 h and Leah 3 h to travel that distance, how fast does each travel
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Question 928640: A plane traveled 924 miles to Seattle and back. The trip there was with the wind. It took 11 hours. The trip back was into the wind. The trip back took 22 hours. what is the speed of the plane in still air? What is the speed of the wind?
I have an answer but do not know if it is right. I got 63 mph is how fast the plane is going in still air and I got that the speed of the wind was 21 mph.
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Question 928675: Two airplanes traveling at the same speed have a different velocity if the are traveling in different _____________.

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Question 928688: A boat travels 36 miles downstream in the same amount of time that it takes to travel 24 miles upstream. The boat travels at a still water rate that is 12 miles per hour more than the rate of the current. Find the rate of the current.
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Question 928687: Hello!
I have this problem I am stuck on:
A boat takes two hours to travel 20 miles up a river but only 1 hour and 20 minutes for the return trip find the rate of the boat in still water and the rate of the currents. Thanks!

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Question 928690: Family traveling to beach, at 7:05AM they are 1/3 of the way there, at 7:25AM they are 3/4 of the way there, what time will they arrive if they are traveling at a constant speed?
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Question 928696: If you travel at 58 mph for 21 minutes, how far do you travel?
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Question 928696: If you travel at 58 mph for 21 minutes, how far do you travel?
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Question 928678: I drove to the beach last spring break with some friends. We wanted to get there fast so we drove at a speed of 88 ft per second. How fast were we driving in mph?
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Question 928689: A plane traveled 580 miles to Ankara then returned to its base. The trip there was with the wind and it took 5 hours. The return trip was into the wind and it took 10 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind
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Question 928724: A car is traveling at 45mi/h. Write an equation that models the total distance d traveled after h hours.
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Question 928752: How do you use derivatives and linear approximation (the formula for linear approximation being
L(x)=D(1-(x/60)) at the point x=0) to approximate the amount of time it takes to drive 45 miles at 62mph?
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Question 928757: how long will it take me to go to Chattanooga which is 150 miles away traveling at 70 mph?
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Question 928756: An airplane flew at an average speed of 432 miles per hour for 2 1 and 2 half hours how far did the plane fly?
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Question 928699: top running speed of a cheetah is double the top running speed of a jackal. The top running speed of an elk is 10 mph faster than that of a jackal. If each of these three animals could run at top speed for an hour, they could run a combined distance of 150 miles. What is top running speed of each of these animals?
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Question 928681: A woman paddling a canoe downstream with the river current travels 20 miles in 2 hours. On the return trip, she paddles the same distance upstream against the river current in 5 hours. Write and solve a system of two linear equations to determine the rate of the boat in calm water and the rate of the current, both in miles per hour.
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Question 928784: Two cars located 20 miles away from each other start (at the same time) driving toward each other. One car is driving at 35 mph, the second car is driving at 45 mph. How long will it take for these two cars to meet?
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Question 928789: A silversmith has two alloys, one containing 60% silver and the other 40% silver. How much of each should be melted and combined to obtain 100 grams of an alloy containing 52% silver?
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Question 928824: How long does it take to drive 40.3 km doing a speed limit of 90 km/hr
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Question 928810: The bus travels 1800 m from your school to the first step. The entire trip takes two minutes. What is the average speed of the bus in meters per second.
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Question 928848: Chau drove 455 miles in 7 hours.
At the same rate, how many miles would he drive in 5 hours?
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Question 928067: If an average person walks for a week, then how many miles will they have walked?
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Question 928890: a boat goes 560 miles downstream in the same time it can go 490 miles upstream. The speed of the current is 7 miles per hour. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 928892: A car is traveling at a speed of 63 kilometers per hour. What is the car's speed in kilometers per minute? How many kilometers will the car travel in
20 minutes?
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Question 928891: Patti drive 69 miles to the west, and then drive 92 miles to the south. how far is she from her starting location?
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Question 928905: 25 miles times by 60 mph find out the how long it took

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