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Question 1025015: A boat ride across a lake is 49 minutes each way. How many minutes does the boat ride take to go across the lake and back?
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Question 1025056: Reduce the given cauchy-Euler equation to a linear differential equation with constant coefficient.
X^2.d^2y/dx^2 -2Xdy/dx+2y=X^3. ? (8 marks)

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Question 1025057: Solve the equation
d^3y/dx^3 +2d^2 y/dx^2 -13dy/dx +10y=0 ? (5marks)

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Question 1025088: A jetliner leaves San Francisco for New York (4600 km away). With a strong tailwind it has an 3) average speed of 1100km/h. At the same time another jetliner leaves NY for SF. Flying against the wind, it only has an average speed of 700km/h. When and where do the two planes pass
each other?
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Question 1025024: find the possible search range( in miles) for a plane that has 30 gallons of fuel and uses 10 gallons of fuel per hour. The plane normally averages 110 miles per hour, but weather conditions can effect the average speed as much as 15 miles per hour( either slower or faster). Determine the possible search range.
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Question 1025061: Car X and car Y traveled the same 80km route. If car X took 2 hours and car Y traveled at an average speed that was 50% faster than the average speed of car X, how long did it take car Y to travel the route?
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Question 1025120: It takes David 1 hour and 30 minutes to drive 63 miles what was his average speed?

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Question 1025051: Felipe is driving to Milwaukee .suppose that the distance to his destination (in miles) is a linear function of his total driving time in (minutes) . Felipe has 67 miles to his destination after 49 minutes of driving . He has 47.5 miles to his destination after 75 minutes of driving . How many miles will he have after 85 minutes of driving ?
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Question 1025145: factorise
X^3 +2X^2-13X+10=0

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Question 1025175: if janet lives 5 miles from Kevin and Maria lives 8.4 miles and they both are traveling 15 mph when will each arrive
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Question 1025218: When flying with the wind a plane can fly 660 miles in 1.2 hours. Flying back against the wind takes 1.5 hours. Find the speed of the plane I'm still air, and the speed of the wind. Set up and solve a system of equations.
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Question 1025261: distance from pt A to B is 100km
Speed 1st hr- 20 kmph
Speed 2nd hr- 18 kmph
Speed 3rd hr- 16.2 kmph
Speed 4th hr- 14.58 kmph
find time to reach B

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Question 1025176: if janet lives 5 miles from Kevin and Maria lives 8.4 miles and they both are traveling 15 mph when will each arrive

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Question 1025164: It took Andy 9 hours to drive to a rock concert. On the way home, he was able to increase his average speed by 14 mph and make the return drive in only 7 hours. What is his average speed for the drive home
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Question 1025319: Ben and Ashley left the airport at the same time traveling in opposite directions. Ashley traveled 10 miles per hour slower than Ben After driving for one and a half hours they were 135 miles apart. How fast were both of them driving?
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Question 1025324: Two boys on bicycles start from the same place and ride in opposite directions. Ones rides twice as far as the other one. In 3 hours they are 27 km apart. What is the rate of speed for each boy?

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Question 1025336: If am travelling 60mph how long does it take me to drive 86miles?
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Question 1025323: The distance from Spokane to Pasco by train is 150 miles. The train ride is direct with no stops along the way except that the train stops every 30 miles to let freight trains pass. The trip takes 2 hours and 40 minutes. Suppose its average speed is 100 mph. What is the average wait time for letting freight trains pass? Express your answer to the nearest second.
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Question 1025362: Liz and Jose rode there bikes into the country at a rate of 12 miles per hour. They return on the same route but since they are now tired, they slow down and maintain an average speed of 8 miles per hour. If their whole ride took 10 hours, how much distance did they cover?
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Question 1025328: Liz and Jose rode their bikes into the country at a rate of 12 miles per hour. They return on the same path but are now tired, they slow down and maintain a speed of 8 miles per hour. If their whole ride took 10 hours how much distance did they cover?
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Question 1025388: I have to go to work at 11:00 and I live 20 miles away how many minutes does it take to get there?
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Question 1025385: Anne and Mary went for a walk. Anne started walking 1 minute earlier than Mary did.
�Anne walks at a speed of 6 feet per second
�Mary walks at a speed of 8 feet per second
How many seconds had Anne been walking at the point when the two girls had walked the exact same distance?
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Question 1025389: how many days would it take to travel 20,000 km traveling at an average speed of 45 mph stopping for 12 hours daily
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Question 1025411: Flying against Flying against the wind, an airplane travels 3800km in 5 hours. Flying with the wind, the same plane travels 3660km in 3 hours. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 1025368: Jennifer can walk one mile in 15 minutes. At that rate, how far can she walk in an hour?
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Question 1025431: Mr. Bean tries to push his car up an 800m slope to a petrol station. In one hour he pushes the car 200m up the hill. The next hour he rests and slips back 100m. How long does it take to reach the top of the hill if he keeps pushing and resting in this way.
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Question 1025420: Starting at coordinates (3, 9), you walk a distance of 2 to the north. You turn 39 degrees to the right, and walk a distance of 13. You turn 84 degrees to the right, and walk a distance of 16. What are your new coordinates? Round to hundredths
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Question 1025310: At 10am a plane leaving an airport traveling east at 400 mi/hr and another plane located at 800 miles is approaching the airport traveling south at 500mi/hr. Assuming the planes have the same altitude at what rate is the distance between the two planes changing at 10:30 am?
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Question 1025511: A contractor mixes concrete from bags of pre-mix for small jobs. How many bags with 3% cement should he mix with 10 bags of 18.2% cement to produce a mix containing 11% cement?
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Question 1025510: A merchant has coffee worth $20 a pound that she wishes to mix with 50 pounds of coffee worth $50 a pound to get a mixture that can be sold for $40 a pound. How many pounds of the $20 coffee should be used?
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Question 1025505: A plane flies 500 miles with the wind and 350 miles against the wind in the same length of time. If the speed of the wind is 30 mph, what is the speed of the plane in still air?
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Question 1025482: Starting at coordinates (26.5, 38.5), you fly a distance of 17.5 at an absolute bearing of 296 degrees. What are your new coordinates? Round to hundredths
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Question 1025523: David traveled 120 miles in one hour less than it took Emily to travel 360 miles Emily could do this because she drove twice as fast as David find the rates and Times of both
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Question 1025592: 2 cars 320 miles apart begin traveling toward each other. one averages 35mph and the other averages 45mph. how long will it take them to meet?
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Question 1025593: 2 cars 320 miles part begin traveling toward each other. one averages 35mph and the other averages 45mph. how long will it take them to meet?
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Question 1025481: Starting at coordinates (0, 5), you walk a distance of 3 to the east. You turn 30 degrees to the left, and walk a distance of 24. You turn 60 degrees to the left, and walk a distance of 6. What are your new coordinates? Answer with a radical.

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Question 1025609:
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Question 1025689: For a ship moving against the current, it takes 9 hours to cover a distance of 113.4 miles. How much does it take this ship to return if the rate of the current is 1.9 mph?
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Question 1025688: The distance between two piers on a river is 43.2 miles. It takes a motorboat, moving downriver, 2 hr 24 min to complete the journey. How much time does it take the same boat to go back upstream if the current flows at 1.8 mph?
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Question 1025682: A train completes the journey between uptown and downtown in an average of 65 minutes. It stops at three stations which takes an average of two minutes each. If the distance between uptown and downtown is 115 miles, what is the average speed of the train?
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