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Question 952250: During the first 300 miles of a 500-mile race, Michael averaged 180 miles per hour. If Ben averaged 178 miles pere hour during the same period, how far behind Michael was Ben at the instant Michael passed the 300-mile mark? If Michael continues at the same rate, what speed would Ben have to averagefor the remainder of the race in order to win?
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Question 952348: Ed goes on a car journey. the first 60 km of the journey takes 45 minutes. the remaining 20 km of the journey takes 30 minutes calculated his average speed in kilometres per hour for the journey
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Question 952364: What is the average speed of a bicyclist who traveled 20 km in 5 hours?
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Question 952371: A woman can bicycle 69 miles in the same time as it takes her to walk 15 miles. She can ride 9 mph faster than she can walk. How fast can she walk?

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Question 952377: A plane can fly 900 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 250 miles. If the car travels 130 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane.
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Question 952377: A plane can fly 900 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 250 miles. If the car travels 130 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane.
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Question 952377: A plane can fly 900 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 250 miles. If the car travels 130 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane.
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Question 952376: If a jet traveled 900 miles over 3 hours. How fast was the jet traveling
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Question 952389: A model rocket is launched with an initial velocity of 250 ft/s. The height, h, in feet, of the rocket t seconds after the launch is given by
h = −16t2 + 250t.
How many seconds after launch will the rocket be 870 ft above the ground? Round to the nearest hundredth of a second.

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Question 952430: i need solutions of problems i copied from here for my daughter. How can i find the solution if i know the question number.
thanks
buvana

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Question 952443: if u are travelling at 50 miles per hour how long will it take to travel 1, 530 miles?

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Question 952438: in one hours how much distance can a man walk at muddy surface and what will be its minimum walking speed
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Question 952432: if I had 24 nails in a bucket and the job requires 72 nail per hour, how long will my bucket last
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Question 952483: Mark drives 10 mph faster than Alex. In the same time that Alex drives 215 miles Mark drives 240 miles. Find the speed of each car.
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Question 952460: The maximum speed for an airplane is about 900 miles per hour (mph). What is the maximum speed of the airplane in feet per minute?
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Question 952508: If a plane is traveling at 240 MPH, how many miles is it traveling in 8 minutes: _________ ?

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Question 952551: you leave your house and walk for half an hour at a speed of 3 miles per hour. then you run for 15 minutes at a speed of 7 miles per hour. you are now halfway to town. write and solve an equation to find the distance from your house to town.
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Question 952546: A delivery truck drove 46 miles per hour it took 2 hours to travel between two town what is the distance between the towns

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Question 952586: a car is traveling 68 miles per hour what is the cars speed in feet per second?
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Question 952569: If you going 80 miles away driving 40mph how long would it take you to get there.
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Question 952733: If you go from 0 to 250 MPH in 20 seconds how far would you have traveled
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Question 952762: you drove a car 88 km, how many miles did you drive?

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Question 952769: a company uses 2 vans to transport workers from a free parking lot to the workplace between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. one van has 14 more seats than the other. the smaller van makes two trips every morning while the larger one makes only one trip. the two vans can transport 65 people, maximum.
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Question 952759: If you travel 646 feet in 7.64 hours, how many feet do you travel per hour?
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Question 952777: You can ride a bike for 15 mph. Your sister tides 12 mph. You give her a one hour head start. In how many hours will you catch up if niether of you stops?
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Question 952727:
Mishka is on a long road trip, and she averages 60 mph for 2 hours while she's driving on the highway. While she's driving on side roads for 1 hour, she only averages 40 mph. What is the total distance that she covers on her road trip?



64 miles


200 miles


100 miles


160 miles

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Question 952703: I sprinted 160 yards in 22.6 seconds how fast in mph did I run this distance in. And is that a fast time in your educated opinion? Thank you

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Question 952793: A train travels 2.4km in one minute estimate how far it travels in one second
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Question 952803: A Car traveling at a rate of 50 feet in 2 x 10^-2 seconds. If the car continues at the same rate, how far will it travel in one hour? Express your answer in scientific notation.
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Question 952698: What is the average speed of 200 miles and 3 hours and 30 minutes
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Question 952698: What is the average speed of 200 miles and 3 hours and 30 minutes
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Question 952783: In 6 hours two men can row 16 miles downstream on a river and back. their rate upstream is twice the rate of the current. find the rate at which they row in still water and the rate of the current. I hope you could help me. this is in a chapter in our book concerning word problems on simultaneous systems involving quadratic.
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Question 952853: While riding her bike to the ocean and back home 7 times, Cameron timed herself at 46 min, 48 min, 50 min, 43 min, 54 min, 54 min, and 52 min. She had set a goal of averaging 51 minutes for her rides. How many minutes will she need to spend on her eighth ride to attain her goal?
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Question 952874: While riding her bike to the ocean and back home 6 times, Kimberly timed herself at 49 min, 54 min, 47 min, 51 min, 67 min, and 59 min. She had set a goal of averaging 55 minutes for her rides. How many minutes will she need to spend on her seventh ride to attain her goal?
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Question 952847: Kevin drove to the mountains last weekend. There was heavy traffic on the way there, and the trip took
8
hours. When Kevin drove home, there was no traffic and the trip only took
6
hours. If his average rate was
16
miles per hour faster on the trip home, how far away does Kevin live from the mountains?

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Question 952890: How long will it take a car traveling 19mph to cover 20 ft?
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Question 952789: A boy walks from his house to school at 2.5km/h and arrives 12 minutes late.
The next day he walks at 4km/h and reaches the school 15 minutes earlier. So determine the distance between the house and the school. Explain with equation.

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Question 952996: two trains are 412 miles apart, and their speeds differ by 19mph. Find the speed of each train if they are traveling toward eachother and will meet in 4 hours?
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Question 953018: What is the speed of a car that has travelled 20km in 30 minutes?
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Question 953031: To cross a 32 m wide river that flows east , Carmen paddled her canoe south. The current pulled Carmen to the east and she paddled a distance of 37 m . How far to the east of her starting point did the current move Carmen ?
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Question 953066: Kevin drove
936
miles in
13
hours.
At the same rate, how many miles would he drive in
9
hours?

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Question 953102: How long would it take to drive 700miles at 50 miles per hour

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Question 953093: Paul travels 6km to work. He walks part of the way at 5km/h and gets a bus the rest of the way at 40km/h. The whole journey takes 30 minutes. How far does he walk?
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Question 953093: Paul travels 6km to work. He walks part of the way at 5km/h and gets a bus the rest of the way at 40km/h. The whole journey takes 30 minutes. How far does he walk?
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Question 953030: a boy cycle from home to school and his journey takes 25 minutes .what time will he arrive when he leaves home

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