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Question 935687: If a car travels a distance of 50km and gets 16.5l\100km. How many liters of gas did it use?
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Question 935708: If you're driving 50 mph and I live 2 hours away... How many miles away do I live and how fast do you have to drive to get to me in 2 hours
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Question 935729: A plane traveling at 30,000 feet in the air,
crashes in 1 minute.
How fast, in miles per hour, was the plane falling?
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Question 935748: if you travel 12.8 km/h in 18 seconds how far did you go?
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Question 935807: On Monday, you run on a treadmill for 1/2 hour at x miles per hour. On Tuesday, you walk the same distance on the treadmill, at 2 miles per hour slower, and it takes you 3/4 hours. How many miles did you run on the treadmill on Monday?
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Question 935816: How far will a cyclist travel in 15 minutes if he cycles 18 km in 1 hour
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Question 935816: How far will a cyclist travel in 15 minutes if he cycles 18 km in 1 hour
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Question 935809: Two boats, STAR and MARCO, are racing to cross a river that is 1.5 miles wide.
STAR is traveling at a speed of 5 miles per hour.
A) How long, in minutes, will it take STAR to cross the river?
B) If MARCO takes 45 minutes to cross the same river, what is MARCO's speed?
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Question 935842: If you were driving 45mph for 420 miles how long would it take
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Question 935838: A train has 12 stops, the train is going 20 miles per hour. The train stops for 45 seconds to load and unload. How long will it take the train to make 12 stops?
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Question 935868: John is driving a sports car. He drive 17.5 miles in a quarter hour. What was his speed in miles per hour
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Question 935934: What distance does it take to reduce the speed of a car from 45mph to 35mph?What distance does it take to reduce the speed of a car from 55mph to 35mph?

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Question 935878: Joe took 3 hours to drive from town A to town B and drove back using the same route in 2 hours. Given that he travelled 30km/h faster in his return journey from town B, how far was town A from town B?
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Question 935965: It tkaes a man 20 minutes longer to travel from his home to his place of business if he drives at a rate of 30 mph than if he drives at a rate of 40 mph. How many iles is his home from his place of business?

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Question 935977: Kimberly rides her bicycle from her home to school at an average rate of 12 miles per hour.If it takes her 20 minutes to get to school, how many miles is her home from her school.
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Question 935985: A canoe took 3 hours to travel up stream and 2 hours to travel the same distance down stream. If the distance was 12 miles each way, what was the speed of the current?
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Question 935984: a jet flies from los angeles to chicago at an average speed of 440 miles per hour. if it returns to los angeles along the same route at an average speed of 360 miles per hour, what is its average speed for the entire trip
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Question 935992: if Katie bikes 250 yards per minuet how long will it take her to bike 100
yards
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Question 935983: if a car goes 283mph,how long does it take it to go 1mile
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Question 936037: If you travel for 1 hour at 10 miles per hour and 2 hours at 25 miles per hour. What is your average speed for the entire trip ?
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Question 936037: If you travel for 1 hour at 10 miles per hour and 2 hours at 25 miles per hour. What is your average speed for the entire trip ?
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Question 936037: If you travel for 1 hour at 10 miles per hour and 2 hours at 25 miles per hour. What is your average speed for the entire trip ?
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Question 936042: A man cycles to a friend's house at 12 mph and arrives 1 hour late.
Next day he travels at 16 mph and arrives 1 hour early.
What speed must he travel to arrive on time?
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Question 934238: For 4 hours Sam traveled at 40 miles per hour. Then he increased his speed to 60 miles per hour and drove for another 3 hours. How far did he go in the 7 hours he traveled?
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Question 936060: How long will it take a jet traveling at 1,500 mph to travel 308 miles?
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Question 936077: Traveling from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York; 2448.30 miles. If you're traveling non-stop at 240 miles per hour, how many hours will it take to get there?
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Question 936097: If i travel 1000 miles at 62mph how long would it take?
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Question 936098: Two motorists start toward each other at 4:30 p.m. from towns 225 miles apart. If their respective average speeds are 40 and 45 mi/hr, at what time will they meet?
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Question 936104: you are walking at a rate of 3 miles per hour. find the distance you will travel in 6 hours
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Question 936180: How far will a cyclist travle in 1/4 hour if he travels 18 kilometres Per hour?

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Question 936192: An airplane takes off 12 1/2 miles south of a city and flies due north at a constant speed of 180 mph. What is the planes position relative to the city after 45 minutes?
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Question 936211: A cyclist can ride 8 miles with the wind in the same amount of time he can ride 5 miles against the wind. The speed of the wind is 4 miles per hour. Which equation can be used to find the speed of the cyclist?
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Question 936215: two cars start from the same point at the same time but travel in opposite directions. One car averages 80 kph and the other averages 70 kph. In how many hours will the second bus overtakes the first?

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Question 936178: Two trains leave from a station at the same time. They travel in opposite direction, one at a 62 km/h and the other at 48 km/h. If they are 550 km apart after a certain time, what is the total distance covered by the two trains?
Please help me on this one. Thank you.
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Question 936220: If I'm going 100 km per hour to Bari and it takes 95 km to get there How long will it be before we get there
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Question 936220: If I'm going 100 km per hour to Bari and it takes 95 km to get there How long will it be before we get there
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Question 936255: A plane flies at the speed of 900 km/h
How far does it travel in
A)20 minutes B)10 minutes

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Question 936217: A store has a rectangular parking lot that is 15 feet longer then it is wide. The owner wants to put a
4-foot-wide sidewalk along the outside of the parking lot. If the total surface area of the sidewalk and the parking lot together is 46,384 square feet. What is the width of the parking lot, not including the sidewalk?
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Question 936269: A sprinter runs the 100-meter dash, with the wind behind him, in 9.96 seconds. He then runs the same distance in the other direction and 11.79 seconds. About how fast is the wind blowing? About how fast does the sprinter run when there is no wind?
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Question 936283: How long would it take to travel 252 miles in a minibus restricted to 60mph?
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Question 936352: find the function values of f(-3):
f(x)= 5x^3 - 7
f(x)= x^2 - 10x + 25
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Question 936357: One mph is equal to approximately 0.869 knots. What is the average speed in knots of a car that makes a 90 mile trip in 5.5 hours?
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Question 936365: A plane travels 675 miles downwind in 3 hours. It turns around and comes back upwind but only travels 525 miles in the same amount of time. how strong is the wind?
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