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Question 954832: a cyclist takes one hour to ride 33 km what is his speed in kilometres per hour
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Question 954918: if you drive 25 miles at a rate of 50 miles per hour . How long will it take ?
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Question 954910: A plane has a cruising speed of 300
miles per hour when there is no wind. At this speed, the plane flew
600 miles with the wind in the same amount of time it flew
400 miles against the wind. Find the speed of the wind.
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Question 954938: The speed of a stream is 6 mph. If a boat travels 90 miles downstream in the same time that it takes to travel 45 miles upstream, what is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 954934: two planes which are 1905 miles apart, fly towards each other. their speed differ by 35 mph.If they pass each other in 3 hours what is the speed of each?
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Question 955035: A bicyclist is riding at a speed of 18 miles per hour down a long hill. The distance D she travels in feet can be modeled by d(t)=4t^2+18t, where t is the time in seconds. How long will it take her to reach the bottom of a 400 foot long hill?
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Question 955034: The distance, d, an object travels is represented by the formula d = rt, where r is the rate at which the object is traveling and t is the duration of time over which the object travels. If d has units of meters and r has units of meters per minute, what must be the units of t?
A. seconds
B. meters
C. meters per second
D. minutes

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Question 954936: The intensity of a radio signal from the radio station varies inversely as the square of the distance from the station. Suppose the the intensity is 8000 units at a distance of 2 miles. What will the intensity be at a distance of 4 miles? Round your answer to the nearest unit.
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Question 955080: The distance between City A and City B is 250 mile. On a certain wall map, this is represented by a length of 1.2 feet. On the map, how many feet would there be between City C and City D, two cities that are actually 550 miles apart?
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Question 955088: Function: t(r)=d/r t(hours) d(distance) r(in miles/hour)
reuben drives 10 miles at an initial rate and then drives 20 miles at a rate 5 miles/hour faster than the first rate he drove.
Please help
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Question 955116: two cars are traveling same
distance but in different speed the other
one travels 150 km/h and the other one
30 km/h which one is using more gas
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Question 955157: If a line of cars are all following each other on a road with a speed limit of 35 and the first vehicle is going 35 mph will the fourth car in the line also be going 35 mph? Why or why not?
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Question 955181: If im doing a marathon for charity and every mile i run i earn 16$ every mile i bike i earn 12$. At the end of the marathon i ran and biked a total of 24 miles and earned 318$. How many miles did i run and how many miles did i bike?

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Question 955195: If I drive to the store at 30 mph, and drive 60 mph on my way back-what is the average speed?
Okay, so I assumed that 30+60=90 , 90/2=45 but that didn't solve the question correctly.
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Question 955199: Please help!!!
A DC-10 jumbo jet maintains an airspeed of 550 miles per hour in a southwesterly direction. The velocity of the jet stream is a constant 93 miles per hour from the west. Find the actual speed and direction of the aircraft.
Speed
mph
Direction
� west of south
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Question 955056: John travels on a bike at 16mph one way then 15mph back the same distance he takes a total time of 7 3/4 hours how far is one way?
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Question 955232: Assume you are throwing a baseball up from the top of a building. The equation for the height of the ball, h, at time, t, is represented by the equation: h=-16t^2+64t+512
After how many seconds does the ball reach 432 feet?
I have gotten to this: 0=16t^2+64t+80 and then I get stuck. Please help!
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Question 955155: Nancy can travel 8 miles upstream in the same time it takes her to go 12 miles downstream. Her boat goes 15 mph in still water. What is the rate of the current?
Thanks in advance!
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Question 955221: if a car is going 55 mph how many feet does it go in a minute
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Question 955243: Jenna has just enough money to rent a canoe for 1.5 hours. How far out on a lake can she paddle and return on time if she paddles out at 2 kph and back at 4 kph?

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Question 955250: If a train travels 200 miles in 4 hours what is the average speed in Mph?
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Question 955244: At the same time, two airplanes leave the same airport, one traveling east at 650 mph and the other traveling west at 700 mph. At noon they are 4050 miles apart. What time did they leave the airport?

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Question 955264: if a train takes 3 hours and 15 minutes when only traveling 500 kilometres how fast is the train moving?
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Question 955297: lisa leaves philadelphia at 9:00am for Boston at an average speed of 45 mph. Two hours later, Mike leaves Philadelphia for Washington, DC traveling at an average speed of 60 mph. At what time will Lisa and Mike be 300 miles apart?
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Question 955321: If I drive for 1 hour at 35mph how many mile have I covered?

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Question 955321: If I drive for 1 hour at 35mph how many mile have I covered?

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Question 955261: A boat has a speed of 15 KPH in still water. If it is headed 53 degrees S of E in a current of 10 KPH. What is the resultant velocity of the boat?
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Question 955275: The top speed of a Dodge Charger SRT8 is 33 mph less than the top speed of a Chevorlet Corvette z06. At their top speeds, a Corvette can travel 6 miles in the same time that a Charger can travel 5 miles. Find the top speed of each car.
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Question 955378: If you leave home at 1 and get to your friend house at 5 what was your average speed
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Question 955423: I need to travel 1,100 miles of I drive 110 mph how long will it take me to get to my destination
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Question 955469: If I can run 1000 yards in 6 minutes and there are 1760 yards in a mile. How long would it take me to run a mile?
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Question 955284: two planes, which are 1680 miles apart, fly toward each other. Their speed differ by 60mph. If they pass each other in 3hours, what is the speed of each?
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Question 955515: On the first part of a road trip to Batangas travelling on the highway, Kelly averages 60 kph. On the rest of the roadtrip, which was 10 kilometers longer than the first part, she averaged 50 kph. Find the total distance to Batangas if the second part of the trip took 30 minutes more than the first.
Help please!
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Question 955530: how fast would i need to run to complete a 372 yard run in 4 minutes ?
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Question 955561: If you are traveling at a speed of 82 mph, how long will it take you to drive 50 miles?
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Question 955629: The distance, d, that a rock falls when dropped from a cliff varies directly as the square of time, t, the rock is falling. If a rock falls 64 feet in 2 seconds, how far will it fall in 3 seconds?
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Question 955637: Train A left Miami at 5 p.m. heading towards Stuart at the constant rate of 30 miles per hour. At the same time, Train B left Stuart heading towards Miami at the constant rate of 10 miles per hour. The trains traveled on separate, parallel tracks for the 90 miles that separate the two cities. What time did the trains pass each other?
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Question 955638: A driver travels from town A to town B at a constant speed, and then from town B to town C at a different constant speed. He takes 4 hours to go from A to B, and the same time to go from B to C, even though the distance from B to C is 30 km greater. If his overall average speed is 80 km/h, find the distances between the three towns.
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Question 955649: a hitch hiker begins to walk along a straight road at the rate of 6 mph to the next town, which is 36 miles away. after 10 minutes a car picks him up and an hour and a quarter after being picked up he is in town. how far was the car traveling?
the answer is 25 mph, but can you show me how to solve it?
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Question 955676: If you go 12.8 seconds around a 3/8 mile , how fast are you going in mph ?
Thanks Jim.
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Question 955704: Hi please help thank you. Two trains run on two sets of parallel tracks. The first train leaves a city 1/2 hr before the second train. The first train travels at 55 mi/hr. The second train travels at 65 mi/hr. How long does it take for the second train to pass the first train.
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Question 955698: two buses leave towns 810km apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One bus travels 10km/h faster than the other. If they meet in 3 hours, what is the rate of each bus?
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Question 955829: A ship left port A with a speed of 40 mph. In 1 hour and 15 minutes, a second ship left the port with a speed of 60 mph. In how many hours and at what distance from port A will the second ship catch up with the first one?
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