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Question 1054506: Falling objects drop with an average acceleration of 9.8 meters falls from a tall building,how long will it take before it reaches a speed of 49 m/s
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Question 1054451: two cars are traveling down the highway with the same speed. If the first car increases its speed by 10 kilometers per hour, and the other car decreases its speed by 10 kilometers per hour, then the first car will cover the same distance for 2 hours as the second car for 3 hours. what is the speed of the cars?
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Question 1054548: An oil tanker with engine trouble radios the mainland for a seagoing tugboat. At the time that the tugboat leaves the dock, the tanker is 125 km away and heading directly toward the dock. If the average speed of the tugboat is 20 km/h and that of the tanker is 5 km/h how long will it take the two vessels to meet?
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Question 1054568: Two runners begin running laps around a one mile track at the same time. The first runner completes a mile every 6 minutes and the second runner completes a mile every 8 minutes. After how long will the first runner lap the second runner?
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Question 1054485: Kirsti drove 58 mph for 1 hour and 52 minutes.estimate the distance she traveled?
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Question 1054633: A man throws a ball almost straight up from the edge of a 32-foot cliff. If the balls leaves his hand with a speed of 16 16 feet per second, its height at time t is given h=-16t2+16t+32, measured from the ground below the cliff.
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Question 1054705: Plan three different bus trips. Each bus trip must be less than 1000km. Calculate the duration of each bus trip to the nearest 30 minutes.
A bus travels at 80km/h
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Question 1054716: A private plane traveled from Seattle to a rugged wilderness, at an average speed of 88 mph. On the return trip, the average speed was 154 mph. If the total traveling time was 8 hours, how far is Seattle from the wilderness?
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Question 1054747: A train traveled 250 miles in 2 hours. If it traveled at the same rate of speed, how long would it take the train to travel 600 miles?
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Question 1054574: Brothers Paul and Pete walk 2 miles to school from home. Paul can walk to school in 24 minutes. Pete has slept in again and needs to run to school. Paul walks at a constant rate, and Pete runs at a constant rate. THe graph of the function is shown below.
Pete's run: 8 miles per hour
a. Which brother is moving at a greater rate? Explain how you know.
b. If Pete leaves 5 minutes after Paul, will he catch up to Paul before they get to school.
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Question 1054813: a train leaves Orlando at 3:00 pm. a second train leaves the same city in the same direction at 8:00 pm. the second train travels 85 mph faster than the first. if the second train overtakes the first at 11:00 pm, what is the speed of each of the two trains?
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Question 1054776: train 1 starts out heading northeast at 155 mph.
train 2 leaves at the same time heading southeast at 195 mph. The trains start 3150 miles apart. how long before they meet?
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Question 1054836: A train travels 67 kilometers in 4 hours, and then 54 kilometers in 3 hours. What is its average speed?
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Question 1054836: A train travels 67 kilometers in 4 hours, and then 54 kilometers in 3 hours. What is its average speed?
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Question 1054836: A train travels 67 kilometers in 4 hours, and then 54 kilometers in 3 hours. What is its average speed?
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Question 1054925: Andre rode his bycycle to a park located 5 1/2 miles from his house. He returned along the same route. After riding 7 1/3 miles total, how many more miles does Andre need to ride to reach his home?
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Question 1054927: At the supermarket Cammy can buy 2/5 pound of oranges for $4. At the farmer's market she can buy 4/7 pound of oranges for the same price. Where does she get the better deal?
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Question 1054926: Anne has a 10 3/4 pound bag of flour. Each time she bakes a batch of rolls she uses 2 1/6 pounds of flour. How many pounds of flour remain after Anne bakes 3 batches of rolls?
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Question 1054945: A person riding a Ferris Wheel travels once around the wheel, a distance of 159 feet, in 25 seconds. What is the average speed of the rider in feet per second? Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 1055005: A boat takes 3 hrs to go 24 mi upstream against the current. It can go downstream with the current a distance of 48 mi in the same amount of time. Determine the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current.
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Question 1055070: Deon drove to the mountains last weekend. There was heavy traffic on the way there, and the trip took 7 hours. When Deon drove home, there was no traffic and the trip only took 4 hours. If his average rate was 27 miles per hour faster on the trip home, how far away does Deon live from the mountains?
Do not do any rounding.
I really really need help! I have no understanding of what to do.
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Question 1055076: Sally drove 7 hours to her aunts house at 90km/h. If it took her 9 hours to get home what was her speed on her way home?
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Question 1055078: The speed of a stream is 5 mph. A boat travels 2 miles upstream in the same time it takes to travel 12 miles downstream. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 1055172: Jill's plane can fly 150 mph without any wind. She flies 1800 miles against the wind to visit her mother, than flies another 1800 miles back home with the wind. If the total flight time was 25 hours what was the speed of the wind.
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Question 1055214: Kent drives his Mazda 531 miles in the same time that it takes Dave to drive his Nissan 495 miles. If Kent averages 4 miles per hour faster than Dave, find their rates.
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Question 1055217: Maria�took�a�trip�to�visit�her�grandmother.�She�traveled�first�by�train�at�80�kilometers
per�hour,�and�then�by�car�at�90�kilometers�per�hour.�It�took�Maria�a�total�of�3�hours
to�travel�a�total�distance�of�265�kilometers.�Which�of�the�following�equations�could�be
used�to�solve�for�tc
,�the�time�in�hours�that�she�traveled�by�car?

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Question 1055230: If one plane is flying at 40 mph while another is flying at 100 mph, and they are 200 miles apart and flying directly towards each other, how long will it take them to meet?
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Question 1055231: Would you please solve the below problem?
Two old RSM students were standing twenty feet apart when they spotted Mrs. Rifkin. If they immediately ran in opposite directions with speeds of 180 feet per minute and 120 feet per minute respectively, how many minutes would pass before they were 2,420 feet apart?
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Question 1055229: Two old RSM students were standing twenty feet apart when they spotted Mrs. Rifkin. If they immediately ran in opposite directions with speeds of 180 feet per minute and 120 feet per minute respectively, how many minutes would pass before they were 2,420 feet apart?
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Question 1055197: Train A and train B leave a central station at the same time. They travel the same speed, but in opposite directions, with train A heading towards station A, and train B heading towards station B. Train A reaches station A after 3 h. Train B reaches station B after 214214 h. Station A and B are 420 mi apart. What is the rate of the trains?
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Question 1055257: Hi
I'm having trouble with this problem....
The movie began at 6:00pm. Samantha arrived 15 minutes before the movie began. At what time did Samantha arrive at the movie?
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Question 1055274: Two airplanes leave Dallas, Texas travelling in opposite directions, one is travelling 28mph faster than the other airplane. how fast is the faster airplane travelling if the two airplanes are 2,320 miles apart after 2 hours and 30 minutes?
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Question 1055299: Please help me.
Jenny is cycling up a hill at a constant speed of 15 km/h and returns down the hill at a constant speed of 35 km/h. Calculate the average speed of her whole trip.
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Question 1055307: The current of a river is 4 miles per hour. A boat travels to a point 48 miles upstream and back in 5 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 1055391: Spacecraft A is over Houston at noon on a certain day and travelling at a rate of 300Km/h . Spacecraft B , attempting to overtake and dock with A , is over Houston at 1:15 P.M. and is traveling in the same direction as , at A . 410 km/h At what time will B overtake A ? At what distance from Houston?
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Question 1055389: A courier who goes at the rate of 6.5 min/h is followed, after 4.0 h , by another who goes at the rate of 7.5min/h . In how many hours will the second overtake the first?
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Question 1055397: if a boat travels 8 miles upstream in the same time it takes it to travel 12 miles downstream, and the boat can go 15 miles per hour, what is the rate of the current?
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Question 1055401: Ken drove to Chicago from New York at a speed of 65 miles per hour. He returned at a speed of 85 miles per hour. The trip to New York took an extra 2 1/2 hour. How far apart is Chicago and New York ?
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