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Question 1052925: Angelina hiked along a 2,250 foot trail. She stopped 5 times along he way to rest, and walked the same distance between each stop. How far did Angelina hike before the first stop?
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Question 1052957: Janet needs to travel 275mi. for a conference. She needs to be at the conference in no more than 5.5 h. What is the slowest average speed that she can drive and still arrive on time?
it wants me to put this in an inequality and solve. plz do not solve for me I want to at least do work...

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Question 1052978: Two cyclists start at the same point and travel in opposite directions. One cyclist travels 4/miles slower than the other. If the two cyclists are 136 miles apart after 4 hours, what is the rate of each cyclist?
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Question 1052976: How do you define X in the cougar/fawn distance problem?
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Question 1052984: Two trains leave towns 1084km apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One train travels 19 /kmh faster than the other. If they meet in 4 hours, what is the rate of each train?
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Question 1053029: A truck with a heavy load drove from Boston to New York at a speed of 40 mph. After unloading, it returned from New York to Boston at a speed of 60 mph. What was the average speed for the whole trip?

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Question 1053053: Admission to a baseball game is $4.50 for general admission and $5.50 for reserved seats. The receipts were $4588.00 for 948 paid admissions. How many of each ticket were sold?
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Question 1053059: using ratio
if a car travels 252 km in 42 hours , what amount of time will it take to complete a journey of 350 km

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Question 1053060: using ratio
if 25 articles cost $43.75 , how much does each cost?
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Question 1053062: using ratio
a car travels 240 km on 20 litres of petrol,
how many litres of petrol is needed to travel 600 km?
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Question 1053088: Guy ran at a rate of 11.5 km/h . What was Guy's speed in miles per hour?
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Question 1053184: an aircraft carrier left hawaii and traveled toward dry dock at an average speed of 25.4 mph. a fishing boat left at the same time and traveled the opposite direction with an average speed of 26.5 mph. how long does the fishing boat need to travel before the vessels are 622.8 mi apart
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Question 1053209: A train was traveling at 15m/s and sped up to 30 m/s over a distance of 1600m. What was its acceleration?
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Question 1053208: Helen is walking towards Kim at 3 feet per second. Kim is running directly away from Helen at 2 feet per second. If it takes Helen 16 seconds to catch Kim. how far apart were the two girls?'
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Question 1053232: using ratio
the ingredients to make black cake are as follows:
450 g raisins
450 g prunes
450 g currants
100 g mixed peel
1 1/2 tablespoon ground cinnamon
225 g glace cherries
2 cups non alcoholic red wine
2 cups cherry brandy
450 g granulated sugar
450 g butter
2 tablespoons baking powder
10 large eggs
225 g brown sugar for caramel coloring
1/2 cup of boiling water

the recipe above makes 2 black cakes of 25cm diameter. what quantities are needed to make 5 black cakes of 25 cm diameter for a wedding cake?
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Question 900307: A race car travels 250 miles in 1.30 hours. determine the average speed of the race car in mi/hr.
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Question 900307: A race car travels 250 miles in 1.30 hours. determine the average speed of the race car in mi/hr.
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Question 1053230: A delivery driver drove 126 km in 1 hr and 45 min on return journey he held up at some road works so his average speed decreased by 9 km per her how long was he held up at the road work
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Question 1053242:
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Question 1053115: Train c traveled 615 miles in one day. Train y traveled 935 I'm 2 days. At the end of the week, how many total miles have both trains traveled?
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Question 1053145: Please help me solve this equation:
Distance between the cities A - B is 125 km. Dan departs from town A to town B at 07:05 pm with a speed of 40 km / h . At the same time , Vahn departs from town B to town A with a speed of 60 km / h . At what time they will meet ?
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Question 1053286: How long would it take a stick to travel going 4 mph down a river 2,341 miles long?
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Question 1053150: Two people are in a bicycle race around a circular track. One rider can race completely around the track in 40 seconds. The other rider takes 45 seconds. If they both begin the race at the designated starting point, how long will it take them to be together at this starting point again if they continue to race around the track?
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Question 1053310: an airplane traveling 350 mph at a cruising altitude of 5.4 miles begins its decent. if the angle of decent is 3 degrees from the horizontal, determine the new altitude after 20 minutes
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Question 1053283: Raul found that by increasing his speed by 5 km/h, he could drive 12 km in 0.2 hours. what was Raul's original speed

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Question 1053342: my car is traveling 70mph how fast does a car starting from zero need to go to catch me in one half mile.
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Question 1053398: On her way home from work, Brenda drove 20 miles at 60 miles per hour. Due to poor weather conditions, she then reduced her speed to 30 miles per hour for the remainder of the trip. Her entire commute to work is 80 miles in distance.
Based on the information provided above, which numerical value best represents how much less time would it have taken Brenda had she driven the entire distance at 40 miles per hour?

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Question 1053432: a bus is driving at 60 miles per hour toward a bus station that is 250 miles away. the function d=250-60t represents the distance d from the bus station the is t hours after it has started driving. find the zero of this function. describe what this value means in this context.
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Question 1053201: ricky can ride bike 17km on his bike in the same lenght of time.he can walk 9km. if his speed is 4kph faster than his walking how fast does he walk ?

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Question 1053465: The length of a river is 480 km. What is its length on a map with a scale 1:5,000,000
answer in cm
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Question 1053466: A toy airplane flies according to the formula d(t)=5+20t-t^2 where d(t) is in meters and t is in seconds. How long will the toy airplane take to reach a distance of 100 meters from the person who controls it?
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Question 1053493: An airplane takes 1 hour longer to go a distance of 375 miles flying against the headwind then on the return trip with a tail wind. if the speed of the wind is 50 miles per hour find the speed of the plane in still air.
I know the answer is 200mph because my test gave me the right answer after getting it wrong I just need help on how to get that answer and solve it right for next time.
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Question 1053536: Marcus ran a 200 meter race in 25 seconds. What is his speed in meters per second

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Question 1053467: The length of Mississippi River is 3,730 km. What is the scale of the map if the length of Mississippi River on the map is 37.3 cm. (1 km=1000m, 1m=100 cm)
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Question 1053590: Dave travels 4200 miles in 5 hours and 15 minutes. What is Dave rate of travel (speed) in miles per hour?
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Question 1053590: Dave travels 4200 miles in 5 hours and 15 minutes. What is Dave rate of travel (speed) in miles per hour?
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Question 1053620: A bus and a car traveled a distance of 140km from town A to town B. The car left town A 45 minutes after the bus, but it reached town B 15 minutes earlier than the bus. If the average speed of the bus was 60 km/hr what was the average speed of the car?
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Question 1053623: a rectangular playing field is 90 yd long and has an area of 4140 yd squared what is the width of the field
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Question 1053629: The average speed of a taxi between two towns is 40km/hr. The vehicle makes 10 complete return trips between the 2 towns 20km apart. How many km does it travel?
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Question 1053648: julie has the weight of 40kg sits at a distance of 1.5 m from the fulcrum of the seesaw. his older brother has the weight of 60 kg at what distance must his brother sits in order to balance the seesaw?
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Question 1053666: Joe drove 357 miles in 7 hours. What is his rate in mph?
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Question 1053649: If a train leaves Chicago and is traveling at 50 mph on its way to New York city 800Miles away, and the train burnt 8 gallons of fuel per hour, how much few were the train need to reach New York City
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