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Question 1044966: airplane travels 5580 km against the wind in 9 hoirs and 6750 km with the wind in the same amount of time. what is the rate of the plane kn still air and what is the rate of the wind
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Question 1045065: Jane took 30min to drive her boat upstream to water-ski at her favorite spot. Coming back in the day, at the same boat speed, to her 20 min. If the current in that part of the river is 7 km per hr, what was her boat speed in still water?
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Question 1045085: For the first hour, she traveled at a speed of 61 miles per hour. Then, in the second hour, she traveled at a speed of 67 miles per hour.What is the percentage increase of Seraphina's speed
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Question 1045121: kim drives her scooter 7 kilometers north. she stops for lunch a
nd then drives 5 kilometers east. what distance did she cover? what was her displacement?
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Question 1045155: Greg drove at a constant speed in a rainstorm for 252 miles. He took a break, and the rain stopped He then drove 176 miles at a speed that was 8 miles per hour faster than his previous speed. If he drove for 11 hours, find the car's speed for each part of the trip.
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Question 1045132: In a vehicle front wheel is 4m in circumference and rear wheel is 6m in circumference, After traveling few distance front wheel rotated 10 times than rear wheel. What is the distance traveled by the vehicle? (please explain the method)
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Question 1045205: A girl walks 500 m towards east and then 1200 towards north. Find her distance from the starting point.

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Question 1045212: an air force jet and refueling plane, which are initially 210 km/he apart, fly toward each other. If their rates are 800 and 250km/hr, how long will it take for them to meet
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Question 1045217: You took a road trip and recorded how many miles you traveled and how many gallons of gas you used.
At the end of your trip you drove 225 miles and used 6 gallons of fuel.
Round answer to the nearest 10th.
Use this info to find the miles per gallon (MPG) for your car:
mpg
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Question 1045294: hi!!
the consumptionof a car is 84.15litres of petrol in a fortnight.how many litres petrol consumed per day?
I know the answer but iwant to know tge process
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Question 1045335: Hello!
So, If I travel at a speed of 50 mph, find the time it takes me to catch up to a car traveling at 30 mph that had a 200 mile start.
I know I have to use D=RT but I'm still confused.

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Question 1045336: The angle of elevation from me to the top of a library is 15* (degrees). We know that the library is 50 feet tall.
a) How far am I standing from the library?
b) How long of a rope would I need to stretch from me to the top of the library?

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Question 1045389: If you earned $336 last week (still assuming $12 per hour), how
many hours did you work?
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Question 1045399: If you traveled 480 miles at an average speed of 40 miles per hours,
for how many hours were you traveling?

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Question 1045399: If you traveled 480 miles at an average speed of 40 miles per hours,
for how many hours were you traveling?

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Question 1045400: The distance between Dallas and Houston is 244 miles. How far is
the distance in feet?

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Question 1045435: Car traveled for 1/2 hour at r mph, then increased the speed by 10 mph and traveled for 1 1/2 hour more. How far did the car go?
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Question 1045435: Car traveled for 1/2 hour at r mph, then increased the speed by 10 mph and traveled for 1 1/2 hour more. How far did the car go?
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Question 1045248: A person on tour has 360 for his daily expensesif he exceeds his tour programme by 4 days he must cut down his daily wxpwnse by rs 3 per day the num of day of his tuor programe are

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Question 1045468: Due to inclement weather, the pilot of the plane slows down the plane's regular flying rate by 25%. This results an additional 1.5hours in covering 3000km distance to its regular time required for the trip. Find the regular rate of the trip
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Question 1045497: Maricris rides her power boat up and down the Agno river. The water in the river flows at 6 miles per hour. Maricris takes 5 hours longer to travel 360 miles against the current than she does to travel 360 miles along with the current. What is the speed of Maricris boat in still water?
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Question 1045503: 7/19 = x/38
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Question 1045503: 7/19 = x/38
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Question 1045491: A car travelled the first 240km at a certain speed and then the next 192km 8kph faster than its initial speed. What is its initial speed if the entire trip took 10 hours?
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Question 1045559: If I walked 1 kilometer in 7 minutes how many minutes would it take me to walk one mile?
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Question 1045570: It takes Brooke 10min to walk 1mi. What is her speed in miles per second?
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Question 1045574: The gray wolf is a threatened animal that is native to the United States. A wildlife biologist observes an adult wolf traveling 250m in 100s. What is the average speed (in meters per second) of the gray wolf over this interval?
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Question 1045578: A likewise, traveling at 22mph, rides a total of 44mi. How much time (in hours) did it take?
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Question 1045585: Luis rides his new bike while his brother records his position and time. They create the date table shown below.
Position (m) 0.00 105 270 400 540 600
Time (s) 0.00 30 60 90 120 150

a. Name the dependent variable and independent variable.
b. On which axis would each variable be placed on a graph?

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Question 1045601: A JET AVERAGED 505 MILES PER HOUR FOR EXACTLY 2.5 HOURS. HOW MANY MILES DID THE JET TRAVEL PER HOUR?
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Question 1045602: You are driving to a destination that is 60 miles away. You want to get there for an appointment in an hour. Unfortunately, you get stuck in traffic and can only go 30 miles an hour for the first 20 minutes of your drive. How fast must you go for the remainder of your drive to arrive on time?
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Question 1045634: I have to travel 100km ,my car is of desile engine nd desile engine price is 60rs/lit and gives a milage of 15km/lit ,how much amout of money i do cost if i travel 100 km or what amout of money i have to fill the desile so that i can travel 100km
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Question 1045655: Two cars, which are 570 miles apart and whose speeds differ by 2 miles per hour, are moving toward each other. If they meet in 5 hours, find the speed of each car.
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Question 1045670: two cars are traveling in opposite directions at different rates. six hours later, the cars are 380 km apart. express the distance traveled by the faster car in terms of the distance traveled by the slower car. let s represent the distance traveled by the slower car. write your expression in simplest form.
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Question 1045744: Suppose a vehicle can accelerate from a stop to 100mph in 15 seconds. Let us assume that the acceleration was a constant rate (this would mean that the average speed during the time traveled was 50mph). Would the vehicle have traveled the quarter mile in this time?
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Question 1045720: A man flies a small airplane a distance of 180 mi. Because he is flying into head wind, the trip takes him 2 hours. On the way back the wind is still blowing at the same speed so the return trip only takes 1hr and 12 min. What is his speed in the still air? How fast is the wind blowing
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Question 1045761: Richard took a 1900km trip traveling by bus and plane. The bus averaged 60km/h and the plane averaged 700 km/h if the trip took a total of 5 h how many kilometers did she travel
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Question 1045763: Susan averaged 91 mph on the way to Phoenix on the way home she average 78 mph and it took her an hour longer to drive home than it did for her to drive to Phoenix what is the total driving time fr Susan averaged 91 mph on the way to Phoenix on the way home she average 78 mph and it took her an hour longer to drive home than it did for her to drive to Phoenix what is the total driving time for Susan's trip? How far did Susan live from Phoenix ?
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Question 1045790: Peter cycles at 4 mph uphill, and 12 mph downhill. He rides from his house at the bottom of a hill to his grandma�s house at the top of the hill, and back home. His average speed for the whole journey is:
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Question 1045581: Use the data from Luis's bike ride to answer the following:
Position (m) 0.00 105 270 400 540 600
Time (s) 0.00 30 60 90 120 150

a. What was Luis's speed (in meters per second) for the entire ride from 0 to 150s?
b. What was Luis's speed (in meters per second) between 60 and 90s?
c. During which 30s interval did Luis have the greatest speed? Calculate his speed during this interval.
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Question 1045817: Suppose that during a test drive of two cars, one car travels 135 miles in the same time that the second car travels 100 miles. If the speed of one car is 14 miles per hour faster than the speed of the second car, find the speed of both cars.

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