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Question 1017670: Car driving 40 mph, car can drive 20 miles per gallon, how much gas does it take in liters to drive 12 hours?
How do you set up the equation
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Question 1017671: joe drives 30 miles due east then 16 miles due north. he returns directly to where he begins. how far does he have to drive on his return trip
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Question 1017727: What would be the density of a piece of metal if it has a volume of 20cm cubed and weighed 3 lbs.
Equation set/steps/solve
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Question 1017631: A cyclist travelling at 24km/htakes 15 minutes longer to complete a certain distance than his competitor travelling at 32km/h. Calculate the distance covered.
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Question 1017761: If a jogger runs a 10-kilometer race in 60 minutes, what is her average speed?

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Question 1017783: If a dam on a river bursts and the water flows downstream at a velocity 120 ft/sec, how long (in minutes) will it take for the floodwaters to inundate a town located 22 miles downstream? Remember: Rate x Time = Distance
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Question 1017758: An elevator ascends at a constant speed of 4 m/s how much time is required for the elevator in order to travel 120 m upwards?
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Question 1017799: For her workout, Sarah walks north at the rate of 2 mph and returns at the rate of 4 mph. How many miles does she walk if the round trip takes 1.5 hours?
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Question 1017810: Jonathan and Samantha paddle their canoe 26 miles downstream in 2 hours. After a picnic, they paddle back upstream. After 3 hours they have traveled only 9 miles back. Assuming that they paddle at a constant rate and the river's current is constant, find the speed at which Jonathan and Samantha can paddle in still water.
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Question 1017825: Your friend drives 60km with an avg speed of 30km/h. How fast must she drive back, the same 60km, to avg 60km/h over the entire trip of 120km?
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Question 1017863: Drive a car at 30miles an hour how many miles you drive in 8 hours

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Question 1017874: 1. Two runners A and B run the mile race (5280ft).runner A run this distance at 30ft/s and B at 20 ft/s. If they start out together and maintain their speeds,how far apart would runner B from runner A when runner A finishes the race?
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Question 1017876: 9. If Martin swims due north at 2mph and a current of 5mph is flowing due east, how fast does Martin swim and in what direction does he travel?

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Question 1017886: Two buses leave Boston at the same time traveling in opposite directions. One bus travels at 53 mph and the other at 64 mph. How soon will they be 936 miles apart?
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Question 1017912: Is someone is going camping 150 miles away from their home and a map showed that 1/2inch is equivalent to 30 miles how fare would it be from the house ?
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Question 1017749: It is known that a shark can travel at a speed of 15 m/s. How far can a shark go in seconds?
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Question 1017963: It takes Sam 10 minutes to get to school going at a speed of 27 miles/hour. How long will it take her to get to school if she goes 40 miles/hour?
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Question 1017977: A plane takes 12hours to fly 96,000km what was the planes speed
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Question 1017934: Amy and Ben live 17.2 km apart. They cycle to meet each other. Ben travels at
12 km/h and Amy travels at 10 km/h.
How long (in minutes) until they meet each other?
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Question 1018094: if a motorist travels 100km in two and half hours,what is his average speed in km per hour
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Question 1018094: if a motorist travels 100km in two and half hours,what is his average speed in km per hour
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Question 1018096: A car averaged 48 miles per hour traveling 672 miles from Washington to Orlando. How long was the trip?

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Question 1018170: How many hours does it take to go 340 miles at a speed of 560 miles an hour
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Question 1018163: Upon landing at the airport in Anaconda, Montana I needed to rent a car so I could visit
all the wonderful sites in the area, especially the snake monument that stood 24 feet
high. After finding the car rental desk I had to choose between the only 2 options
available. Option #1: A fee of $10 plus a charge of 5� per mile. Option #2: A charge
of 17� per mile.
If you were to travel m miles, write an equation that would show the cost of the car
rental using option #1 (C1):
If you were to travel m miles, write an equation that would show the cost of the car
rental using option #2 (C2):
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Question 1018185: Two cars are traveling on two different routes, one 43 miles longer than the other. The car traveling on the longer route travels 2 miles per hour slower than the other car and it takes it 6 hours for the trip. If the car with the shorter route takes 5 hours for its trip, find the length of each route.
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Question 1018242: A fish swims 3 kilometres in 5 hours how long would it take to swim 4 kilometres.
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Question 1018269: A family goes on vacation to a water park. During the drive there they averaged 48mph. On the return trip they averaged 80mph. If the distance each way was equal, and the whole trip driving was 6.4 hours, find the distance ONE WAY to the water park.
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Question 1018280: An athlete runs up a set of stadium stairs at a rate of 2 stairs a second, turns around and descends those same stairs at a rate of 3 stairs per second. If the workout takes 90 seconds, how long does it take him to run UP the stairs.
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Question 1018293: I need to find out how many miles "Dan" drove on Interstate 5. He drove a total of 27 miles. He drove X miles on Interstate 5 and Y miles on Interstate 405. HE drove twice as many miles on Interstate 5 as he did on Interstate 405. Here comes the tricky part I found a solution but can't figure out how to show my work for it.
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Question 1018352: the train takes 1 1/2 hours to get from Miami to Orlando. The train takes 5 times as long as that to get from Miami to Tallahassee. How long is the ride from Miami to Tallahassee.
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Question 1018353: at a party, Susan cuts a sheet cake into 10 equal pieces. After the party. there was 7/10 of cake left. Which shows the fraction 7/10 as a product of a whole number and a unit fraction.
a) 3 X 1/7
b) 10 X 1/7
c) 7 X 1/10
d) 7 X 7/10
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Question 1018394: How many seconds will it take to travel 196 feet at 18 miles per hour?
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Question 1018394: How many seconds will it take to travel 196 feet at 18 miles per hour?
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Question 1018383: At 9AM a train traveling 60 miles per hour leaves Los Angeles for San Francisco, a distance of 400 miles. At noon a car traveling at an average speed of 40 miles per hour leaves San Francisco for Los Angeles. At what time will the two vehicles pass each other?
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Question 1018427: A boat travelled 336 miles downstream and back. The trip downstream took 12 hours. The trip back took 14 hours.
What is the speed of the boat in still water? What is the speed of the current?
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Question 1018548: A car travels 60km in 36 minutes,at the same average speed,how far will it travel in 1 hour 1hour 12 minutes
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Question 1017201: An airplane flies out of New Orleans to Atlanta at a rate of 320 mph. It returns at a rate of 280mph. The total travel time is 3 hours. How long did it take to get to Atlanta.
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Question 1018551: Ross drive 276 miles in 4 hours if Ross continues to drive at the same rate how many miles can you drive in in 8 hours
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Question 352467: An airplane flies from New Orleans to Atlanta at a rate of 320 miles per hour. The airplane then returns at an average rate of 280 miles per hour. The total travel time is 3 hours. write and solve an equation to find the flying time from New Orleans to Atlanta
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Question 1018453: andrew walked 1 mile in 20 minutes. Deanna walked 8800 yards in 90 minutes. how much faster did Deanna walk than andrew?
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