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Question 932985: A grocer wishes to make 50 kilos of tea by mixing two grades of tea worth Rs. 16 and Rs.18 per kilo respectively. if he wishes to sell the mixed tea at Rs.16.80 per kilo, how many kilos of each grade of tea should he mix?
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Question 932994: The distance between towns A to B is equal to 48 km. The road connecting A and B is not flat and consists of segments that go either uphill or downhill only. A cyclist rode his bike from A to B and back in 3.5 hours. It is known that the cyclist was moving uphill at a speed 24 km/h. At what speed did the cyclist move downhill?
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Question 933011: A car travels at 42 kilometers per hour. Write an expression for the distance traveled after h hours.
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Question 933011: A car travels at 42 kilometers per hour. Write an expression for the distance traveled after h hours.
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Question 932973: Assume a car is driven 15,000 miles per year on the highway at 50 mph.
How many gallons of gas would be used?
If the same car is driven at 75 mph, how many gallons would be used?
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Question 933014: What is the expression for: a car is traveling at an average of x mph, how far will that car travel in 90 minutes?
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Question 933028: If I'm traveling at the speed of 65mph how long will it take me to travel 8 miles???
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Question 933050: Car A and car B are travelling at 7 kph and 21 kph, respectively. If they are travelling on perpendicular roads, after how many hours will they be 75 kilometers apart?
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Question 932995: The road from village A to village B first goes uphill and then downhill. A bus moves uphill always at a speed of 30km/h and downhill always at a speed of 60km/h. Find the distance between A and B if a round trip from A to B and back without intermediate stops takes 4 hours. *Hint: Using more than one variable might help
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Question 933068: if rohan walks at speed of 5kmph he reached school 5 minutes early and if walks at speed of 4kmph he reached school 5 minutes late. what is the distance between his home to school

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Question 932996: Mary visits her friend Annie and then returns home by the same route. She walks 2km/h uphill, 6km/h downhill and 3km/h on flat ground. If her total walking time to Annie's house and back was 6 hours, then how far from Mary's house does Annie live?
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Question 933114: If a boat can travel 108 miles on 9 gallons of gas then how many gallon of gas will be needed to travel 300 miles away?
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Question 933125: i can't figure this one out and i tried 5 times can u plz help here's the question.
Find the speed of a person driving a distance of 500 miles in 4 hours

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Question 933107: if ram walks from his house at 5km/h he reaches school 5 min early
and if he walks 4 km/h he reaches 5 min late . waht is the actual distance between ram house and school

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Question 933065: a boat travels 3km upstream and 3km back. the time for the round trip is 10 hours. the speed of the stream is 5 km/hr. what is the speed of the boat in still water
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Question 933082: Mr. paddle took his boat 80 miles down a river and back.The trip downsteam took 4hrs while back took 8hrs.find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current?

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Question 933087: If Ram walks from his house at 5kmph, he reaches school 5 min early & if he walks at 4 kmph he reaches 5 min late. What is the actual distance b/w Ram's house & his school?
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Question 933158: A bus and car travel in opposite directioms. After 3 hours, they were 300miles apart. The car is traveling 15mph faster than the bus. How fast was the bus and car traveling?

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Question 933170: A driver averaged 58 miles per hour and took 10 hours to travel between two cities. what is the distance between the two cities?
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Question 932993: The distance between towns A and B is 39km. A cyclist and a bus moved from A to B at constant speeds. A bus left A 15 minutes after a cyclist did and caught up with the cyclist in 10 minutes. After reaching B, the bus immediately turned around, and 30 minutes after the first meeting met the cyclist the second time. Find the speeds of the car and the cyclist.
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Question 933260: If you are 2 hours away and going 100 mph how long would it take you to reach your destination ?
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Question 933278: A man is walking at an average speed of 4 miles per hour alongside a railroad track. A freight train, going in the same direction at an average speed of 30 miles per hour, requires 5 seconds to pass the man. How long is the freight train? Give your answer in feet
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Question 933269: If Ram walks at 5 kmph to his school then he reaches 5 minutes early and if he walks at 4 kmph he reaches 5 minutes late . what is the actual distance Ram's house and his school?
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Question 932998: Two hikers left towns A and B at the same time and walked toward each other at constant speeds. The hikers met at noon and passed each other without stopping. One hiker arrived to B at 4:00pm, and the other hiker arrived to at 9:00pm. At what time did the hikers begin their journeys?
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Question 932971: a bus traveled on leveled road for 2 hours at an average speed of 20 miles per hour faster than it did on the winding road. the time sent on the winding road was 5 hours. find the average speed of the level road if the entire trip was 320 miles
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Question 932970: a car reached raipur from ranchi in 35 minutes with an average speed of 69km/hour.if average speed is increased by 36 km/hr how much time will it take to cover same distance
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Question 932900: At noon, a train leaves New York for Toronto while another train leaves Toronto for New York. It takes one train 8 hours and the other 22 hours to make the trip. If both maintain constant speeds and travel along parallel tracks, at what time do they pass each other?
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Question 933374: a cyclist rides her bike over a route that is 1/3 uphill, 1/3 level, and 1/3 downhill. If she covers the uphill part of the route at a rate of 16 km/h, and the level part at a rate of 24 km/h, what rate would she have to travel during the downhill part of the route in order to average 24 km/h for the entire route?
(ANS: 48km/h)
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Question 933386: A boat averages 6 1/2 miles to a gallon of gasoline. how many miles can it travel on 10 gallons of gasoline?
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Question 933422: A cyclist traveling at a constant speed completes 1/3 of a trip in 1 1/2 h. In how many additional hours will the cyclist complete the entire trip?
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Question 933488: A boat going upstream (against the current) travels 105 miles in 15 hours. It takes the same boat 7.5 hours to make the same trip when it is traveling back down stream (with the current). What is the speed of the boat in still water and what is the speed of the current of the river?
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Question 933470: Karen runs at a rate of 6miles per hour David runs at a rate of 900 feet per minute approximately how many yards faster, per second,does David run than karen?
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Question 933493: A rock is thrown from the top of a tall building. The formula h = -16t + 234 describes the height of the rock, h in feet, t seconds after the rock is thrown. How long after the rock is thrown does it hit the ground?
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Question 933521: Two buses leave the terminal going in opposite directions. One bus is traveling 40 mph and the other 50 mph. How many hours will it take for them to be 225 miles apart?
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Question 933519: Two kilometers upstream from his starting point, a canoeist passed a log floating in the river's current. After paddling upstream for one more hour, he paddled back and reached his starting point just as the log arrived. Find the speed of the current.
LOG
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This is the only question that I can't understand out of all the practice problems my teacher gave me,please help!
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Question 933529: An airplane travelled 245 mph with the wind and 175 mph against the wind. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 933567: if I travel 355 Km at a speed of 140 Km/h how long will it take me to get to my destination?
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Question 933515: Calculate the speed of a car that travels 75 miles in 3 hours.
A girl rides her bike 15m/s for 20s. How far does she travel?
How long would it take for an object moving at 12m/s to go a distance of 12m?
How much time is required to go 3 miles you can run at the rate of 6.3 miles per hour?
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Question 933504: You drive 480 miles in six hours how fast did you drive?
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Question 933572: a plane traveled 4344 miles with the wind in 8 hours and 3768 miles against the wind in the same amount of time . find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of wind
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Question 933613: it costs
$15
to rent a bike for
4
hours. How many hours of bike use does a customer get per dollar?
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Question 933614: A color printer prints
35
pages in
10
minutes. How many pages does it print per minute?
If necessary, round your answers to the nearest hundredth.
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