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Question 980384: Two cars are driven around a 10 kilometre track. Both cars leave from the start line at the same time.
Car X travels at exactly 40 km/h
Car Y leaves at exactly 30 mm/h
How many minutes will it be before they pass the start line together again?
My wrong working out: 40/10 = 4
30/10 = 3
4+3 = 7
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Question 980312: Felice drove her car 300km at a certain average speed. Had she travelled 10kph faster, the trip would have taken 1 hour less. Find Felice's average speed.
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Question 980468: if you ride your scooter at aspeed of 20km/hr from house,you will reach your college at 9.05 am,if you ride at 30km/hr you will reach at 8.55am.find the distance between your house & college
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Question 980479: two cars 600 km apart travel towards each other at the same time. Car A travels at the rate of x kilometers per hour while car B travels at y kilometers per hour. How far apart will they be after t hours? (d=rt) Try to write t only once in your formula
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Question 980522: A train goes from New Orleans to Boston at 40 mph. On the way back it returns with a speed of 80 miles per hour. If it takes less time to return, what is it's average speed?

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Question 980524: Jane makes a 285 mile trip traveling 210 miles by train at a rate of 65 mph. She then
drives the remaining distance at a rate of x mph
how did you set up the equation?
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Question 980562: how many your for an aicraft travelling at 1000km per hour, to cross the diameter of the milky way which is 100 000 light year ??
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Question 980570: if you go on a road trip of 60 miles in the mountains and 1/6 of the trip is downhil, how many miles of your trip are not downhill?
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Question 980571: Two trains are 500 miles apart when they first start moving towards each other. If in two hours the distance between them is 300 miles, and one train goes 20 miles faster than the other, find the speed of the faster train. I think my teacher said there are two solutions for this problem.
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Question 980576: How far does a tractor trailer truck traveling 80 miles per hour go in 21 minutes?
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Question 980575: You are traveling 75 miles per hour on the interstate. How long it take you to travel 15 miles?
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Question 980574: You spot a car traveling 105 miles per hour. How far does it travel in 10 minutes?
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Question 980470: An airspeed indicator on some aircraft is affected by the changes in atmospheric pressure at different altitudes. A pilot can estimate the true airspeed by observing the indicated airspeed and add to it about 2% for every 1000 feet of altitude. If a pilot maintains a constant reading of 200 miles per hour on the airspeed indicator as aircraft climbs from the sea level to an altitude of 10000 feet, write a linear equation that expresses true airspeed T ( miles per hour) in term of altitude A ( Thousands of feet). What would be the true airspeed of the aircraft at 6500 feet?
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Question 980586: Rachel drove 3 more hours than Kim on her trip to Texas. It the trip took 37 hours, how long did Rachel and Kim each drive?

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Question 980585: `A train goes from New Orleans to Boston at 40 mph. On the way back it returns with a speed of 80 miles per hour. If it takes one hour less time to return, what is it's average speed?
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Question 980582: A train goes from New Orleans to Boston at 40 mph. On the way back it returns with a speed of 80 miles per hour. If it takes one hours less to return, what is it's average speed?
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Question 980578: A train goes from New Orleans to Boston at 40 mph. On the way back it returns with a speed of 80 miles per hour. If it takes less time to return, what is it's average speed?
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Question 980606: Train passes the first 110 miles in 3 hour and the next 240 miles at the rate of 60 mph. What was the average speed of the train for the entire trip'

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Question 980670: on a journey of 375 km , a motorist travels part of the journey on a expressway a 95 km/h and he rest at 65 km/h. the total time he spends on the stretch of road at 65 km/h is twice the time he spends on the expressway . how long did he take for thr whole journey?
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Question 980719: Two trains are 500 miles apart when they first start moving towards each other. If in two hours the distance between them is 300 miles, and one train goes 20 miles faster than the other, find the speed of the faster train. There are more 2 solutions
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Question 980706: a commuter drives 15 miles north from home and then 20 miles west to get to work what would be the length of the trip if it were possible to drive along a straight line from home to work ?

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Question 980762: if you are traveling 360 miles and you are driving 60 mph how long will it take
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Question 980898: It takes a boat going upstream 11 hrs to cover the same distance, as it would cover in 9hrs going downstream. What is the speed of the boat if the speed of the current is 2km/hr?
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Question 980981: a car cover 201 km in 3 hour? how much distance will cover in 7 hours?
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Question 981051: Erin ran 2/3s of a mile in 15 minutes. What was his approximate speed in an hour
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Question 981137: From the same starting point jim walks with a speed of 3mph and john runs at5mph.how long after they begin john covers 5 miles more than jim?
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Question 981155: Suppose you can drive a car m miles on g gallons of gasoline. The number of miles you can drive in your car is equal to 30 times the number of gallons of gasoline used. Which direct variation equation represents this represent?
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Question 981179: If i takes painter a 7 hours to paint a room and painter a & painter b 5 hours to paint the same room. How long would it take painter b by himself?
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Question 981244: I don't understand this question;
Length of movie projected at 24 frames per second
l=24f
what should I do?
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Question 981347: What is the destination time difference between two cars traveling for a distance of one hundred miles when one car's speed is 70 mph and the other car's speed is 60 mph?
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Question 981472: justin travels 160 miles away and then back home. his average speed on the way there is 9 mph faster than on his way home. he spends a total of 8 hours driving. find his two rates of speed.
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Question 981505: A jet flew an average speed of 480 mph from point x to point y. Because of headwinds the jet averaged only 460 mph on the return trip. The return trip took 30 mins longer. How many hours was the flight from point y to point x.
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Question 981513: a driver travels the first 120 km of a 200-km journey at an average speed of 40 km/h. he travels the remaining journey at a speed of 60 km/h. find the time taken for the whole journey.
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Question 981531: travelling along at 100km signposted is 50km to where your destination is how long or minutes will it take to reach destination
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Question 981611: A sub-compact car has a 10 gallon fuel tank and has a range of 320 miles for city driving and 410 miles range on highway.
If the sub compact car averages a speed of 40 miles per hour in the city, after how many hours of city driving will its fuel tank be empty?
The sub compact car has a city driving range of ___ miles on a full tank of gas.

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Question 981688: A bus travels at x km/h for 30 minutes and then travels a further k km for 1/4 hour. The average speed of journey is
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Question 981708: A girl travelled a distance of 225 km in 5 hours. How much time does she need to travel 494 km?

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Question 981753: How long would someone traveled in one direction 15mph and 35mph back in two hours
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Question 981753: How long would someone traveled in one direction 15mph and 35mph back in two hours
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Question 981798: Sara drives 117 miles on 5.2 gallons of gas. She uses this information to calculate how many miles per gallon she can drive. Using this result, how many miles can Sara drive on 12 gallons of gas?
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Question 981792: Debbie finished her first marathon in approximately 5.2 hours. She was able to complete her most recent marathon in about 3.9 hours. By what percent did her time decrease?
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Question 981926: If there is a total distance between babylon and Lindenhurst 2.7 miles and your friend said it would take 47 min to walk THat Distance how Fast would you Have to walk to cross 2.7 miles in 4 min.
2) if you're walking at the speed of 3.7 miles per hour how long would it take you to travel 2.7 miles
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Question 981969: Bob drove from home to work at 80 mph. After work the traffic was heavier, and he drove home at 75 mph. His driving time to and from work was 1 hour and 33 minutes. How far does he live from his job?
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