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Question 1006395: 1 car going 60 miles per hour. 2nd car following at equal distance for the journey. Is the 2nd car traveling at the same speed or going slower?

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Question 1006446: Ashley's family lives 240 miles away from Washington, DC. While visiting Washington, DC, they drove half of the distance with the speed 60 mph. Their speed during the remaining part of the trip was only 40 mph. On the way back home their speed was the same all the time, and the way back home took as much time as the way to Washington. What was their speed on the way back?
I don't get how to do this problem
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Question 1006447: what is 30−(2x+7)
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Question 1006444: A person driving along the road moves at a rate of 56 miles per hour driven how far does the person drive in 1.5 hours show the calculation you use in your answer and find your answer in proper units.
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Question 1006463: 174 miles in 3 hours how many miles do they travel in 1 hour
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Question 1006457: It takes 35 hours for Dan to travel from his house going to school. It takes him 34 hours to travel from school going home. How many hours does it take Dan to travel everyday from his house to school and back?
Select your answer.
1 27/20hours 2 17/20hours 3 13/20hour 4 69hour

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Question 1006503: A train travels at 60 om per hour.find the number of metres it travels per second?
The question should be,
A train travels at 60 km per hour.find the number of metres it travels per second?

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Question 1006485: Mario took a 17 day trip around the U.S. He visited Boston, Miami, Philadelphia and New York. In Boston he spent $200 per day, in Miami $225 per day, in Philadelphia $175 per day and in New York he spent $150 a day for a total of $3400. The number of days he spent in Miami was one less than the total number of days in the other three cities combined. The number of days in Philadelphia was twice the number of days in New York. How many days did Mario spend in each city?
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Question 1006521: Melissa and kyle went on strip to visit relatives.On the way there.M drove and average about 34 mph, on the way home, k drove about 50 mph. Total drive time was 21 hours, how long did M drive, how long did K drive?
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Question 1006534: please help me love this question A plane flies 490 miles with the wind and 310 miles against the wind in the same length of time. If the average velocity of the wind is 27 mph, what is the average velocity of the plane in still air?
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Question 1006714: If a car leaves St.paul heading due East at 85mph,while a truck heads due West at 65mph,how long until they are 600 miles apart?

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Question 1006736: A boat glides downstream for 12 hours. Because the stream's current, it takes the boat 22 hours to go back upstream. If the speed of the river is 5mph, find the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 1006688: two cars left daisy's diner at the same time and traveled in opposite directions. one car traveled for 78 minutes. the other car traveled for 144 minutes at a rate of 5 km/h faster than the first car. if the faster car went twice as far as the slower car, how fast did each car travel?
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Question 1006778: A farmer employee 12 men to harvest his crops they took 9days if he had employ 16men how many days it would take them ?
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Question 1006778: A farmer employee 12 men to harvest his crops they took 9days if he had employ 16men how many days it would take them ?
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Question 1006792: How many miles per hour will you be traveling at 625 feet per second?
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Question 1006792: How many miles per hour will you be traveling at 625 feet per second?
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Question 1006810: Tricia and Janine are roommates and leave Houston on Interstate 10 at the same time to visit their families for a long weekend. Tricia travels west and Janine travels east. If Tricia�s average speed is 20 miles per hour faster than Janine�s, find the speed of each if they are 310 miles apart in 2 hours and 30 minutes.
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Question 1006788: You run along a path at a constant speed of 5.5 miles per hour. How far do you travel in 1.5 hours? In 3.8 hours?
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Question 1006821: A high school student in Seattle, Washington, attends the University of Central Florida. On the way to UCF he took a southern route. After graduation he returned to Seattle via a northern trip. On both trips he had the same average speed. If the southern trek took 45 hours, the northern trek took 50 hours, the northern trek was 295 miles longer, how long was each trip?
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Question 1006866: The sailboat travels 600 miles in 30 hours which describes the unit rate or speed at which they traveled
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Question 1006967: This problem is really confusing me. I've been trying for a while but just don't know how to do it. Could you help?
A factory has an order for 23,500 paper clips. Machine A can make 1500 paper clips per hour while Machine B can make 2500 paper clips per hour. Machine A starts at 8:00 A.M. and Machine B starts at 1:00 P.M. At what time will the two machines complete the job?
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Question 1006968: With a tailwind, a bird flew at a ground speed of 3 miles per hour. Flying the same path against the same wind, the bird travels at a ground speed of 1.5 miles per hour. What is the bird's air speed? What is the wind speed?
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Question 1006969: Two cruise ships leave Florida in the same direction. One travels 18 mph and the other 25 mph. In how many hours will the ships be 35 mile apart?
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Question 1007036: What is the algebraic rule for a car that consumes 6 litres of gas for every 50 kilometres traveled?
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Question 1007150: The following formula can be used to find the distance that a person has run.
distance = rate � time
How far has a person traveled who ran at a rate of 5.5 miles per hour for 3/4 of an hour
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Question 1007147: How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes running at a rate of 6 m/s?
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Question 1007135: Joe walked of a mile in of an hour. What is his unit rate in miles per hour?

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Question 1007208: A man rows a boat 910 feet upstream against a constant current in 14 minutes. He then rows 525 feet downstream (with the same current) in 7 minutes. Find the speed of the current and the equivalent rate at which he can row in still water.
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Question 1007248: Assume that Laura races Joe over 100 metres and wins by 10 metres.
With Joe on the start line:
a. If Laura starts 10 metres behind Joe, who will win, and by how much?
b. If Laura starts 11 metres behind Joe, who will win, and by how much?
c. If Laura starts 11.1 metres behind Joe, who will win, and by how much?
d.How far behind Joe does Laura have to start for the race to be a dead heat?
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Question 1007249: If you flew in a plane 220 miles an hour there, then flew back with a tailwind going 280 miles an hour and the whole trip took 6.5 hours, how far would you have traveled?
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Question 1007220: David rowed a boat upstream for three miles and then returned to point he started from. The entire journey took four hours. The speed of the stream is one mile per hour. Find David's speed in still water.
David's speed in still water is
miles per hour.
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Question 1007320: While riding a bicycle one afternoon, Pete discovered that he could travel 15 miles while riding with a 6 mile per hour tailwind in the same amount of time that it took to travel 9 miles into the same wind. At what rate could Pete ride with no wind at all?
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Question 1007343: A plane flies from Chicago to Los Angeles, A distance of 2000 miles, in 4 hours. It flies against a 50 mile per hour wind. The plane flies the return trip from Las Angles back to Chicago in 3 and 1/3 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 1007344: A river barge travels at an average of 8 miles per hour in still water. The barge travels 60 miles up the Mississippi River and returns 60 miles downriver in 16.5 hours. What is the average speed of the current, (the river), in this section of the Mississippi River?
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Question 1007341: A car travels 300 km in the same time that a train travels 200 km. The speed of the car is 20 km per hour more than the speed of the train. Find the speed of the car and of the train.
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Question 1007458: water was leaking from a faucet at a rate of 1.25 gallons every 5 minutes how much water was wasted if it took 12 minutes to repair the faucet?
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Question 1007355: Madison needs to run a total of 16 in a half miles in 4 days. How many miles will she run each day if she runs the same number of miles each day?

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