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Question 957393: My average speed while driving to Colorado last summer was 57 mph. It is 1500 miles to Denver .How long did it take for me to get there?
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Question 957485: Plane A is traveling 312 miles per hour and is 450 miles ahead of plane B. Plane B is traveling at 385 miles per hour. How long will it take plane B to catch up to plane A?
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Question 957367: If Jane runs at 10km/h she completes a certain distance in 6 minutes. At wind average speed, in kilometers per hour, would Jane need to cover the score display in 8 minutes?
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Question 957496: a train covers a distance of 720 km at a speed of x km/h. On the return journey, it travels at an average speed of y km/h and completes the whole journey in an hour less. if the speed during the return journey was 10 km/h more, what were the speeds in m/s?
is there a formula to use?
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Question 957515: Juan drove 180 miles in 2.5 hours. If he continues to drive at this rate,how many miles will he drive in 4 hours?
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Question 957580: If you travel at 120km/hr for 520km, how long would you take?
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Question 957563: The car moves over a winding road as follows: for the first 20 minutes it travels a constant speed of 54km/h; for a further 5 minutes at 42km/h and at last 12 minutes at 84km/h. Calculate the average linear speed of the car

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Question 957606: What is the average rate of speed the car travels in 90 minutes?
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Question 957650: A car covers 'k' miles in 50 minutes. How many miles will it cover in 10 minutes?
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Question 957662: How fast would I be going in order to travel 1.5 miles in 4 min?
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Question 957680: Two planes leave Charlotte and Raleigh at the same time each going to the other city. One plane flies 25 miles per hour faster than the other. Find the airspeed of each plane if the cities are 275 miles apart and the planes pass each other after 40 minutes of flying time.
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Question 957668: how fast is 150,000 mph in seconds
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Question 957711: A car travels at 60 km/h. How far will it travel between 9:30am and 11:15am

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Question 957728: The rate of a jet stream is 300 milers per hour. Traveling with the jet stream, an airplane can fly 4200 miles in the same amount of time at it takes to fly 1400 miles against the jet stream. what is the airplanes average rate in calm air?
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Question 957778: Hi, I am having trouble figuring out the correct equation to form from the following word problem: A bus travels 87.5 kilometers to another town at a speed of 72.0 kilometers/hour. What must be its return rate if the total speed for the round trip is to be 2.50 hours?
Could you please help me form the equation necessary to solve this problem? I can solve equations, I just have trouble forming them from word problems.
Thank you for your time.
Jodie
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Question 957792: If you travel at 120km/h, how far can you go in 3hours and 15 minutes?
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Question 957828: If it take lisa 5 hours to walk 12.5 miles what is her speed
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Question 957837: Maria is training for a triathlon. Yesterday, she rode her bike for eight and two-thirds miles in two-thirds of an hour. If Maria continues to rides at the same rate, how far will she ride in one hour?

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Question 957831: speed of boat in still water is 18km/h it takes 1/2hour extra in going 12km upstream instead of going the same distance downstream find speed of stream
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Question 957860: Annie walks28feet in 4 seconds towards the front of the train that's moving at 70feet per second. What is Annie's rate of travel with respect to the land?
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Question 957848: Suppose a car moving at a constant speed travels 96 miles. If the car's speed was twelve miles per hour faster, it could have traveled 120 miles in the same amount of time. What was the car's speed (in miles per hour)? Type in your numerical answer only; do not type any words or letters with your answer.

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Question 957871: In the first four plays of a football game, the Vols lost 6 yards, gained 4 yards, lost 1
yard, and gained 12 yards. What is the net number of yards gained in the first four
plays? __________
Did the Vols make a first down? ______________ (Ten yards are needed for a first
down.)

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Question 957907: if it takes a taxi 45 mins to drive 12.5 km what is the average speed?
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Question 957881: a plane flies 900km in 1 and a half hours, what is its speed in km/hour?
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Question 957933: Mike and Molly start running at the same time, from the same point and run in the same direction. Mike runs at 8mph while Molly runs at a slower pace. after 2 hours, they are 4 miles apart. Determine the speed at which Molly is running.
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Question 957935: An airplane flying with the wind can cover a certain distance in 2 hours. The return trip against the wind takes 3 hours 36 minutes. How fast is the plane and what is the speed of the wind, if one-way distance is 1800 miles.
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Question 957957: an airplane travels 125 feet in .25 of a second. How many feet will it travel in 4 seconds
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Question 957957: an airplane travels 125 feet in .25 of a second. How many feet will it travel in 4 seconds
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Question 957999: Andre jogged 50yards in 16seconds. How many yards did he jog per second?

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Question 957949: The formula below shows the relationship between distance,rate, and time for a moving object. d=rt If the rate is 3.5 miles per hour and the distance is 8.75 miles, what is t, time? Explain why your answer is correct.
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Question 958025: On a bike trip, Erika rides 5 miles in the first 30 minutes and 13 miles in the next hour. What is her average rate of speed?
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Question 958001: Mike and Molly start running at the same time, from the same point and run in the same direction. Mike runs at 8mph while Molly runs at a slower pace. after 2 hours, they are 4 miles apart. Determine the speed at which Molly is running. MAKE A TABLE TO SOLVE, THEN SOLVE
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Question 958094: Two planes just took off from Salt Lake City, UT. The first plane is traveling two times as fast as the second plane. After traveling in the same direction for 4.5 hours, they are 450 miles apart. What is the average speed of each plane?
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Question 958101: a bus travels 323 miles in 4 hours and 45 minutes. what is its average speed in miles per hour ?
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Question 958129: how long will it take a plane to travel 200 km traviling 10 m/s

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Question 958136: A plane flies 780 km in a direction of 185 degrees T. How far west has it traveled from the starting point?
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Question 958187: A person riding a Ferris wheel with a diameter of 110 feet travels once around the wheel in 3.5 minutes. What is the average speed of the rider in miles per hour?
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Question 958186: The Bear Paw chair lift at the Northstar ski resort in Lake Tahoe is 790 feet long. If a ride on this chair lift takes 4.5 minutes, what is the average speed of the lift in miles per hour?
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Question 958146: An airplane was traveling with 480 passengers. When it arrived at the first airport, some passengers got off and 30 people got on an airplane. At the next airport, half the passengers got off the plane and 70 people got on an airplane. There were now 220 passengers on an airplane.
a)Write the equation from the statement.
b)Find the number of passengers who came out off an airplane at the first airport.
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Question 958198: This trip takes 3.2 hours.what is your average rate of speed rounded to one decimal place?

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Question 958195: if it takes him 6 hours to climb the hill and 252 minutes to climb down the hill, what is his rate coming down
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Question 958199: How long does it take a car traveling at 40 miles per hour to go 200 miles?
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