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Question 975267: At 60 miles per hour, a car travels 88 feet per second. During a stop from 60 miles per hour to zero, the average speed of the car is 30 miles per hour. If it takes two seconds for the car to stop, how far did the car travel in those two seconds?
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Question 975138: Here is my question:
A boat travels 12km upstream and back in 3 hours. If the speed of the current is 3 km/h throughout, make an equation and find the speed of the boat in still water.
Thank you very much!
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Question 975301: How long will it take a mother, running at 4 feet per second, to catch up with her toddler, running down the sidewalk at 2 feet per second, if the child had a 5 second head start
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Question 975308: How many meters will you travel 72 hours by a bicycle average speed.
If you could plz hurry up send me the answer that would be great.Thanks

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Question 975342: a baseball is thrown a distance of 60ft. What is the speed it takes 0.5 seconds to cover the distance?

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Question 975357: Traveling at 55 mph how many minutes running to the nearest whole number does it take to drive 310 miles
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Question 975343: Are you a female
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Question 975431: Car goes 30mph in 45 minutes, how far will go in 15?
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Question 975431: Car goes 30mph in 45 minutes, how far will go in 15?
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Question 975434: aT A bus station buses depart At a rate of 3 every 10 minutes. At this rate , how many buses would you excpect to depart in 1 hour?

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Question 975133: if a car is travelling at a rate of 55 miles per hour,how many minutes would it take to travel 25 km?

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Question 975419: 1. You are a Cadet Platoon Sergeant serving as part of the Chain of Command
participating in a Leader Development Exercise (LDX). Two squads from your
Platoon start at the same time from opposite ends of a course that is 12 miles
long. One squad is marching at 3 mph and the second squad is running at 6 mph.
How long after they begin will they meet?
2. You are a Cadet Platoon Leader travelling to a Leader Development
Exercise (LDX). You and another Cadet driving cars entered an Interstate
highway at the same time and traveled toward each other. The initial
distance between cars was 390 miles. The speed of the first car was in 10
miles per hour greater than that of the second car. It took 3 hours for two
cars to pass each other. What was the speed of each car?
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Question 975475: A jet travels 1686 mi against the wind in 3 hours and 2136 with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the jet in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 975446: a motorcycle travels 15 mph faster than a bicycle. the motorcycle driver covers 10 km in two hours less than it takes the bicycle driver to travel the same distance
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Question 975601: FIND THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE POINTS (-17, 20) AND (-12, 23). ALSO FIND THE MIDPOINT OF THE SEGMENT THAT JOINS THE POINTS. WHAT IS THE DISTANCE?
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Question 975661: Find the distance between points (-17,20) and (-23,23). Also find the midpoint of the segment that joins the points. What is the distance?
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Question 975495: a550 yard long train travelling at 40 mph, enters a three mile long tunnel. How long will elapse between the moment the front of the train enters the tunnel and th moment the end of the train clears the tunnel
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Question 975668: To save fuel on the 240 km trip to their cottage, the smith family reduce their usual average speed by 20 km/h. This meant that their trip took 1 hour more than usual. What is their average speed?
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Question 975557: Nadia leaves San Francisco at noon. Deena leaves San Francisco at 12:30pm. Deena is traveling 16 mph faster than Nadia. If Deena passes Nadia at 2:00pm, how fast are they each going?
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Question 975450: Two trains leave the station at the same time, one heading east and the other west. The eastbound train travels
20
miles per hour slower than the westbound train. If the two trains are
570
miles apart after
3
hours, what is the rate of the eastbound train?
Do not do any rounding.
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Question 975716: Car A and B enter the highway at the same time and place and head in the same direction. Car A travels at 76 mph. After 3 hours, Car B trails by 42 miles. What is the speed of Car B?
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Question 975695:
In going 4rm 1 city 2 another,a car travnls 75km north west & 20km east.
Thdm approximate distance b2en the 2 cities is.....??????
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Question 975804: Jessie recently drove to visit her parents who live 540 miles away. On her way there her average speed was 11 miles per hour faster than on her way home (she ran into some bad weather). If Jessie spent a total of 18 hours driving, find the two rates
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Question 975775: Jamie is travelling with her best friend Amy from Grand Forks BC to Pincher Creek AB. They split the driving. The 440km trip takes 2.25 hours (excluding stops). Jamie drives at an average speed of 90km/h and Amy at an average speed of 80km/h. What system of linear equations could help Jamie determine the distance each person drove? How many hours does each person drive?
***it has been 37 years since I have had to do anything like this and my daughter needs help with the question. Thank you so much!
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Question 975873: Julie recently drove to visit her parents who live 450 miles away. On her way there her average speed was 24 miles per hour faster than on her way home (she ran into some bad weather). If Julie spent a total of 20 hours driving, find the two rates.
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Question 975870: A and B are playing tag . A stay still while B runs from the same spot at a rate 2 meters per second. After 60 seconds B keeps running . A now runs after him at a rate of 3 meters per second. How long has A run when he caught up to B
My solution
3 (t-60) = 2t
3t - 180 =2t
3t-2t =180
t = 180
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Question 975913: Jen Traveled 170 miles in 2 hours and 45 minutes express her speed in per hour to the nearest tenth
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Question 975902: Vanessa wants to buy a new iPod that costs $239.25. She earns $7.25 per hour at work.
How many hours must she work to earn enough money to buy the iPod?
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Question 975915: jen traveled a distance of 170 miles in 2 hours and 45 minutes express her speed in miles per hour to the nearest tenth

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Question 975917: Anne walked 2 km in 120 minutes what is her speed?
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Question 975934: Fred originally ran a 42km marathon in 3 hours. Fred wants to improve his net time by six minutes next year. He will try a different strategy of running for the first two hours at a certain (but unknown) speed, and then completing the rest of the race at a rate 2 kilometres per hour faster than this speed.
If he is to succeed, what is the speed will he need to run for the first two hours of next year�s marathon?
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Question 976030: David drives 168 miles a week for work. He fills his gas tank twice a week. Each fill up is for 12 gallons. Assuming he uses all of the gas each week and only uses the car to travel to and from work, what is the gas mileage of his car? (Gas mileage = miles/gallons)
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Question 976007: As part of a conditioning program, a jogger ran 9 mi in the same amount of time as it took a cyclist to ride 27 mi. The rate of the cyclist was 18 mph faster than the rate of the jogger. Find the rate of the jogger and the rate of the cyclist.

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Question 975805: Vehicle A is traveling at the same speed as vehicle B. Both are going 100km/hr. Vehicle A is 50 feet behind Vehicle B. If Vehicle A accelerates to 134 km/hr in 5 seconds, how long would it take to travel 50 feet past vehicle B?
or
at what speed would vehicle A have to get to, if it reached 50 feet passed Vehicle B in 5 seconds?
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Question 975901: Vanessa wants to buy a new ipod that cost $239.25. She earns $7.25 per hour work.
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Question 976017: Sarah travels for 100 miles and then decreases her rate of travel by 5 mph and continued the remaining 300 miles of her trip. If the total trip took 7 hours and 40 minutes, at what two speeds did she travel?
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Question 975717: A bus covers a certain distance in 3hours 2minutes at an average speed of 45km per hrs.how much time will it take to cover the same distance at speed of 50 km per hours?
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Question 976167: Hi, if I walked uphill at 14degrees for 6 kilometres how high would I be.

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Question 976188: Albert and Bob ran a race of 440 yards. In the first trial albert gave bob a start of 65 yards and won by 20 seconds. In the second trial albert gave bob a start 34 seconds and bob won by 8 yards. Find the speeds of albert and bob in yards per second
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Question 976226: if someone is driving 60 mph and someone is driving 65 mph and is 30 behind them - how long would it take to catch up to the one driving 60 mph?
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Question 976187: Fred averaged 58 mph on his way to the Rose Bowl. On his way back he traveled at 50 mph but took 64 minutes longer. What was the distance of his route?
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Question 976303: 1. You drive 65 miles per hour for 15 minutes, then 70 miles per hour for 20 minutes.
how far does the car travel in each segment?
what is the average speed?
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Question 976366: In the morning, May drove to an appointment at 50mph. Her average speed on the return trip in the afternoon was 40mph. The return trip took 1/8 hour longer. How far did she travel to the appointment?
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Question 976391: A is chasing B. They are separated by 18 miles and A is traveling at 300 mph and B is traveling at 240 mph. If the aircraft fly for 7 minutes, how far behind is A?
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