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Question 943393: Suppose you go on an 8-hour car trip. For the first 6 hours, you travel at an average rate of r miles per hour on the highway. For the last 2 hours, you travel at an average rate of 30 mph slower in the city. Find the distance traveled.
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Question 943456: 1 car travels 15 miles an hour the 2nd car travels 30 miles an hour. The first car traveling at 15 miles an hour gets a 20 second head start. Which car will be the first to cross the finish line which is .25 miles away? What is the formula used in this math problem?
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Question 943483: If a car travels at 11km, in 0.83 miles per hour, what would the speed be?
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Question 943502: A motorboat, whose speed is 24 km/h in still water, takes 1 hour more to
go 32 km upstream than to return downstream to the same spot. Find the
speed of the stream

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Question 943553: If the speedometer in a car reads 55.0 mph, what is the speed in km/hr?
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Question 943553: If the speedometer in a car reads 55.0 mph, what is the speed in km/hr?
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Question 943595: If you go on a road trip of 30 miles in the mountains and 715 of the trip is downhill, how many miles of the trip are not downhill? Reduce to the lowest terms.

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Question 943632: Tom lives 15 kilometers south of Jim. Jerry lives 20 kilometers north of Jim. How many kilometers from Jerry does Tom live?
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Question 943635: A cyclist completed a competition in 1 1/4 hours at an average speed of 800 m per minute. Km?
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Question 943426: My friend is 30 miles away from me and is travelling on the line passing through our two location at 60mph away from me how far is he from me after 3.7 hours? Can you give a linear equation that represents his distance from me as a function of time?
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Question 943647: A car travels at 40 km/h for the first 30 minutes, then at 55 km/h for the next hour. What total distance (in km) did the car travel?
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Question 943449: How long will it take a cheetah run a 100 yards at top speed which is 70 miles per
hour
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Question 943673: a driver going 60 miles per hours looks away from the road for one second. how many feet does the car travel in this time?
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Question 943751: Joe drove to Maine and back. On the way there, he drove 40 mph. On the way back he drove 48 mph. How long did the trip take if the return trip was 5 hrs?
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Question 943789: 4800 miles from Monrovia to Johannesburg 400 miles per hour solve for 500 miles how many hours will it take to get to Johannesburg
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Question 943808: Mica travel constant speed 3 hours. Then slowed speed for 11 miles. The entire trip took 6 hours and covered 375 miles. What was the speed on the turnpike?
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Question 943803: cara and jason are competing in a bicycle race. cara rides her bike 10 miles every 8 hours,while jason rides his bike 4 miles every 3 hours. if both riders travel at a constant speed,who will finish the race first?
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Question 943860: 5. Janet rides her bike to work at a speed of 12 miles per hour. It takes her 20 minutes to get there from her house. How long is her ride to work?
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Question 943848: linda walked for 2 hours then ran for 1 hour. If she runs three times as fast as she walks and the total trip was 20 kilometers, then how fast does she run
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Question 943870: Use the speed of light as c = 3 � 10^8 m/s when needed.
3. It takes light 1.25 seconds to reach the moon from the earth. How far away is the Moon (in meters)?

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Question 943871: Sheen took a 5 hour tricycle trip. He traveled at an average rate of 150 miles per hour. Find the total distance that he traveled.
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Question 943873: What is Debra's acceleration if she walks at 5 kilometers / hour for 2 hours?
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Question 943875: Use the speed of light as c = 3 � 10^8 m/s when needed.
The nearest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.5 light years. How many times farther is this than the Earth-Sun distance =1.5 � 10^11 m?
Round your answer to the nearest order of magnitude.
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Question 943883: A pram is pushed at 2km per hr for 15 min, how far did it go?

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Question 943971: Person travels 130kilometers per hour down a 1500 meters slope. How many seconds does it take to reach the finish line?
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Question 943980: Feb 2, 2015 - If a team's average rate is 130 kilometers per hour down a 1,500-meter course, how many seconds will it take them to cross the finish line? Round your answer to the nearest second.
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Question 943995: If I travel at 30 knots for 2 hours, how far have I gone?
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Question 943956: I have 1 hour to get from Vail to Denver. I can only travel 117.5 km per hour. The distance between Denver and Vail is 160 km. Can I make it or not?
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Question 943960: the cost of gasoline is 4.40 per gallon. jane's car gives a mileage of 35 gallon .approximately how much did jane pay for gasoline for her trip of 491 miles

please show your work so i can under stand how you did it thanks
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Question 944008: If I drove 20 miles in 10 minutes,how far did I drive in 10 minutes
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Question 944036: How many days will it take me to drive 2,400 miles at 70mph?
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Question 944025: A jeep leaves Orlando traveling 40 mph. 20 minutes later a car leaves Orlando following the jeep traveling 55 mph. How long will it take, in minutes for the car to overtake or pass the jeep?
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Question 944043: "a plane travels 8400 km against the wind in 7 hours. with the wind, the plane makes the return trip in 6 hours. find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind."
i know the variables are 8400 km, 7 hours and 6 hours, but im really confused on how to set up the equation for this problem.
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Question 944056: A cat is chasing a mouse. a mouse is already 6ft ahead of the cat any running at a speed of 4ft per second. A cat is running at 6ft per second. What 2 equations can be created?
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Question 943982: car a and car b are 100 kms apart from each other travelling at different speeds. if they travel in same direction they meet after 5 hrs and if they tavel towards each other they meet in 1 hour.. find the speed of both cars
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Question 943997: A car travel 60 miles in 2 hrs. How much is it feet per sec?

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Question 944084: How long does it take if you're traveling by car going 60 mph while traveling to a place 360 miles away.
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Question 944180: a car traveling at a constant speed travel 90km in 50 minutes. how far, traveling at the same constant speed, will the car travel in 2 hour 25 minutes?

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Question 944164: If your going 70miles per hour how long would it take you to reach 160 milea

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Question 944214: Starting at home, Luis traveled uphill to the hardware store for 30 minutes at just 10 mph. He then traveled back home along the same path downhill at a speed of 30 mph.
What is his average speed for the entire trip from home to the hardware store and back?
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Question 944260: If you travel the world in 80 days, how many miles/hour did you travel?
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Question 944249: I need a formula set up for these type of problems.
I can do 25 laps in 6 hours. At this rate how long would it take to do 60 laps?
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Question 944262: If you traveled the world in 80 days, how many miles/hour did you travel?
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Question 944267: Two cars leave towns 600 kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One cars rate is 14 kilometers per hour more than the other's. If they meet in 3 hours, what is the rate of the fastest car?
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