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Question 971061:
A plane flew 720 mi with a steady 30 mi/hr tailwind. The pilot then returned to the starting point, flying against the same wind. If the round-trip flight took 10 hr, what was the plane's airspeed?

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Question 971010: carlos and maria drove a total of 217 miles in 4.1 hours. Carlos drove the first part of the trip and averaged 52 miles an hour. Maria drove the rest of the trip and averaged 54 miles per hour. How many hours did Maria drive?
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Question 971136: a motorboat can maintain a constant speed of 23 miles per hour relative to the water. The boat makes a trip upstream to a certain point in 29 minutes.the return trip takes 17 minutes. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 971140: Family traveling 2.5 hours at average speed of 60 miles per hour then drove 70 miles per hour for 4 hours. Which is the shortest distance and what is the distance.
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Question 971067: A motorboat traveled 35 km upstream on a river and then up an adjacent stream for 18 km, spending 8 hours on the entire trip. The speed of the river�s current was 1 km/hour slower than the speed of the stream�s current. Find the speed of the current of the river, if the speed of the motorboat in still water is 10 km/hour.
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Question 971111: On a sale's trip, Samir drives the 600 miles to Richmond averaging a certain speed, The return trip is made at an average speed 22 mph slower. Total time for the round trip is 22 hrs. Fin Samir's average speed on each part of the trip.
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Question 971241: John runs at a constant rate of 40 feet per second. His friend Steve runs at a constant rate of 35 feet per second. Steve leaves 40 seconds earlier than John on a road trip. How far will Steve have ran when John catches up to him?
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Question 971239: runner A crosses the starting line of a marathon and runs at an average pace of 5.6 miles an hour. half an hour later, runner B crosaes the starting line and runs at an average rate of 6.4 miles an hour. if the length of the marathon is 26.2 miles, which runner will finish ahead of the other? explain.
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Question 971276: A person leaves home at 7:00 a.m. and drives to a destination at a rate of forty mph. After spending one hour at the destination, the person returns at a rate of twenty-five mph and arrives home at 2:30 p.m. How far is the trip to the destination?
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Question 971286: Flying against the wind, an airplane travels 8640 km in 9 hours. Flying with the wind, the same plane travels 5900 km in 5 hours. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?

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Question 971283: A man bought 200 books. He sold 80 of them at a profit of 15% and the remaining at a profit of 50%. He realized Rs.27200 in total. What was his cost of books?
1; 18,000
2; 22,000
3; 20,000
4; 24,000

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Question 971280: two planes are 1380mi apart and traveling towards each other. one plane is traveling 80mph faster than the other plane. the planes pass each other in 1.5hours.find the speed of each plane
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Question 971292: some states have a single area code for the entire state. Two such states have area codes where one is double the other. If the sum of these integers is 1203, find the two area codes.
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Question 971267: Susan drove 200 miles using 9 gallons of gas. At this rate, how many gallons of gas would she need to drive 420 miles
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Question 971263: A train travels 1000miles within a 3 hr time period, How much speed must the train exert to make this happen?

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Question 971327: Taylor drives 576 miles to get to his cousin's house. If the drive takes 16 hours, what is Taylor's rate of speed?
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Question 971330: How do you set up the equation for sally drives 70 miles in an hour. How many hours will it take her to drive 560 miles? is the equation a two step?
70x=560 hours
x/70=560 hours
_________
70
x=8hrs
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Question 971311: A cargo plane went 375mph to a air show. It went 500mph home it made it home 2hrs quicker. How many hrs did it take the plane to get there?
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Question 971421: It takes John 1 hour to walk to jareds house, but it only takes him 20 minutes to ride his bike there. How much faster does he travel when he rides his bike?

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Question 971429: A takes 45 seconds to run a lap and every 25 seconds, B who is running in the opposite direction passes A. how long does it take B to run a lap?
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Question 971433: A takes 45 seconds to do 1 lap. B runs the opposite direction and meets A every 25 seconds. How long does it take for B to do 1 lap?
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Question 971470: Little red riding hood rides to grandmas house at 20 mph . She goes back on the same path at 35 mph . What is the average speed ?
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Question 971470: Little red riding hood rides to grandmas house at 20 mph . She goes back on the same path at 35 mph . What is the average speed ?
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Question 971477: how long will it take if you are driving at 55 mph to get to seattle

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Question 971513: Train travles 120 miles in one hour what is its speed in miles per minute
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Question 971538: Two cars traveling in the same direction. Car a. passes car b. How fast is car a traveling if car b travels 90 mph to catch car a?
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Question 971576: Bob walked a total of 2.5 miles on a treadmill He walked 2 mikes per hour for one third of the time and 4 miles per hour for two third of the time. What amount of time did he walk on treadmill

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Question 971590: I need help with this question: "You traveled 72 miles in a certain time period. If you had traveled 6 miles per hour faster, the trip would have taken 10 minutes less time. What was your speed"
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Question 971568: Mulder and Scully are driving to Georgia to investigate "Big Blue," a giant reptile reported in one of the local lakes. Mulder leaves the office at 8:30 a.m., averaging 65 mph. Scully leaves at 9:00 a.m., following the same path and averaging 68 mph. At what time will Scully catch up with Mulder?
Please help me to solve and show the work. Thank you for your service.
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Question 971573: Tina and Mary leave their college at the same time. Tina walks to the West while Mary rides her bike to the East, going 1 mph slower than five times Tina's speed walking. Two hours later they are 34 miles apart. How fast was Tina walking?
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Question 971657: Driving 65 mph, it takes Alicia 2 hours to reach the airport to go on a vacation. It then takes her 3 hours to get to her destination with the jet traveling at a speed of 400 mph. How many miles does Alicia travel to get to her destination?

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Question 971649: If you drove your car for 850 km at 130 km/hr, how many kilometers would you travel?
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Question 971740: Ashley left Findley at 11:52am and arrived at her destination at 3:12pm. Explain what steps you would take to determine the length of her trip. Show your work and be sure to include the length of the trip in your answer.
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Question 971838: If I drove for 12hours and 45minutes at an average speed of 100km/h, how many miles did I drive?
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Question 971839: I'm trying to figure out this distance equation. I've re-watched the lessin a few times so I know how to set up the equation but I can't figure out how to solve it. The equation is: (rate 1) 2.75 hrs + (rate 1-15) 4 hrs find distance and rate
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Question 971842: The speed of a stream is 4mph. If a boat travels 58 miles upstream in the same amount of time it takes to travel 29 miles downstream what is the speed of the boat In still Water?

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Question 971528: two air planes leave the airport at the same time. one airplane flies due east of 300 mph. the other airplane flies east north at a speed of 350 mph (the angle between the two directions is 22.5 degrees). if the planes are at the same altitude how far apartare they after 2 hours? round your answer to the nearest mile
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Question 971867: If I make a path 30 feet wide by 2 miles long how many acres am I covering?
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Question 971941: Train went 55 kilometers in 15 minutes How fast was train going?
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Question 971965: A train travelling at an average speed of 53 km per hour. At this rate of speed, the estimate time for the train to travel 279 km is:
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Question 971998: what is the time that each men takes to travel 24km
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Question 972036: A man rides at the rate of 11 miles an hour, but stops for 5 min to change horse at the end of every seventh mile. How long will be take to go a distance of 96 miles? (Approx)
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