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Question 995333: On Sunday Kara started biking from her apartment at 7:00 AM for a charity bike-a-thon, traveling at a constant speed. At 9:30 AM her roommate Amy began along the same route in her car at an average speed 20 km/h greater and caught up with Kara at 11:30 AM. How far had Amy gone?
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Question 995353: My iPod has 64 GB of memory.what does. This mean

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Question 995380: A boat can travel 36 miles an hour. How many miles can the boat travel in a minute?
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Question 995448: John walks 3 meters west , the 2 meters east. He turns around and runs 15 meters west , then turns around and walks 2 meters east . What is the total distance covered by John ? What is John's displacement ?
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Question 995460: Jerry is planning a 500 mile trip and estimates it will take 10 hours. Approximately how fast will he be traveling?
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Question 995460: Jerry is planning a 500 mile trip and estimates it will take 10 hours. Approximately how fast will he be traveling?
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Question 995468: Micheal walks 30m from his house to his bestfriend house and return home later that evening what us the distance traveled
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Question 995464: Suppose the New York City and St. Louis railroad stations are 100 miles apart via the short route. A train leaves New York headed to St. Louis, traveling at 80 mph. Two hours later a train leaves St. Louis headed pt New York City and it averages 60 mph, when they meet, which one is nearer St. Louis?
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Question 995550: In a car park cars can be parked in one row side by side. Fred marks the parking spaces with parallel lines 260cm apart. The row is 63metres long. How many parking spaces can Fred make in a row?

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Question 995586: If a train travels 128 kilometers in 1 1/3 hours .what is the average speed in kilometers per hour ?
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Question 995687: if a vehicle is traveling 65 mph and gets 19 miles to the gallon. How long will it take to travel 504 miles

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Question 995695: the time for the bus trip between two towns is 45 mins shorter than the time for the train trip between the same two towns .If the towns are 350 km apart and the train speed is 15km/h slower than that of the bus,find the speed of the bus in km/h .
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Question 995776: A vehicle travels a distance of 507km and uses 40 litres of petrol. Calculate the kilometre per litre

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Question 995854: An Aeroplane covers a certain distance at a speed of 240 km/hr in 2 hours. To cover the same distance in 1.5 hours, it must travel at a speed of:
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Question 995873: John is travelling at 80 km/h on freeway.how far will he travel in 30 minutes

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Question 995924: The formula t = sqrt (d)/4 represents the distance (d), in feet, that an object falls in t seconds, assuming that the air resistance does not slow down the object. In an object fall from a top of a building with a height of 1,730 feet, how long will it reach the ground?
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Question 995942: Lindsey can travel 400 miles on 20 gallons of gas. How many miles can she travel on 15 gallons of gas?
____ miles

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Question 995942: Lindsey can travel 400 miles on 20 gallons of gas. How many miles can she travel on 15 gallons of gas?
____ miles

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Question 995948: when david and his family visited his granparents they drove 261 miles round-trip. the drive to his grandparents house took 2.5 hours what was their avareage speed in miles per hour
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Question 995930: How far can a man drive into a country if he drives out at 40 miles per hour, returns over the same road at 30 miles per hour, and spends 8 hours away from home, including a 1-hour stop for lunch?
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Question 995952: the speed of wind is 6 mph. a hummingbird flies for 24 minutes with the wind to a food source. it takes 36 minutes to return (into the wind) from the food source. find the speed of the hummingbird in still air
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Question 995950: when david and his family visited his grandparents they drove 261 miles round trip the drive took 2.5 hours what was there average speed?
they drove home on the same road but encountered traffic if their average speed was 45 mph how long did it take?
how many hours and minutes was this?
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Question 996003: Worksheet : Taxi Fares
Question #3
What was David's average speed for this 4-mile trip, in miles per hours? Show your responding.
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Question 996056: how many hours would it take a person to travel 200 miles at a rate of 40 miles an hour
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Question 996049: A submarine can dive 4 1/3 feet in 5 seconds. How many feet has it descended after 10 minutes?
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Question 996071: A soda company is filling bottles of soda from a tank that contains 500 gallons of soda at the most how many 20 ounce bottles can be filled from the tank if 1 gallon equals 120 ounces

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Question 996115: An object thrown from a planet an altitude of 1449 ft. The initial velocity is 16ft/s. How many seconds later will the object strike the ground?
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Question 996064: The time taken by an airplane to travel from one city to another is 20 min more than 1/8 of the time taken by a train. Find the time taken by the airplane if the time taken by the train is
(A) 12 hours
(B) t hours
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Question 996191: An object is traveling at a steady speed of 10 and one fifth
km/h. How long will it take the object to travel 1 and four fifths km?
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Question 996190: An object is traveling at a steady speed of 10 and one fifth
km/h. How long will it take the object to travel 1 and four fifths km?
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Question 996217: Wendy took a trip from one city to another, a distance of 210 mi. She traveled part of the way by bus, which arrived at the train station just in time for Wendy to complete her journey by train. The bus averaged 40 mi/h, and the train averaged 110 mi/h. The entire trip took
3
1
2
h.
How long did Wendy spend on the train?
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Question 996259: A boat can travel 29 mph in still water. If it travels 342 miles with the current in the same length of time it travels 180 miles against the current, what is the speed of the current?
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Question 996247: A train leaves New York for Boston, 200 miles away, at 3:00 P.M. and averages 60 mph. Another train leaves Boston for New York on an adjacent set of tracks at 4:00 P.M. and averages 60 mph. At what time will the trains meet?
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Question 996245: the chart shows the fastest cars in the world. which car or cars could travel 375 miles in one-and-one-half hours?
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Question 996268: A bicycle path is 4 miles long. A man walks from one end at the rate of 3 mph. At the same time, a friend bicycles from the other end, traveling at 9 mph. In how many minutes will they meet?
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Question 996261: a table is 3 times as long as it is wide. if it were 1 foot shorter and 1 foot wider, it would be a square. how long and how wide is the table?
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Question 996326: Joshua drove 55 miles per hour. How long will it take him to travel 385 miles?

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Question 996348: two vehicles leave the same corner at the same time and travel at a right angle to each other. One vehicle travles 3 kilometers an hour faster than the other. if after one hour the vehicles are fifteen kilometers apart, fid the rate of each vehicle.
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Question 996284: may cycles 25 km in 2 hours.how far can she cycle in 3 hours?
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Question 996366: Tricia drove 1,400 miles from her home to Dallas. On the way back home, she averaged 6 miles per hour more, and the drive back home took her 3 hours less. Find Tricia's average speed on the way to Dallas.
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Question 996359: If you have to go 500 miles to get to your friends house and you are going 3442 cm/sec, will you get there in 7 hours?
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Question 996373: Bill left school and drove toward the train station. One hour later Jessica left driving at 80 km/h in an effort to catch up to Bill. After driving for 3 hours Jessica finally caught up. Find bills average speed
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Question 996364: How long does it take to run 360 feet at 19mph?
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