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Question 185138: IT TAKES A PASSENGER TRAIN 2HOURS LESS TIME THAN IT TAKES A FREIGHT TRAIN TO MAKE THE TRIP FROM CENTRAL CITY TO CLEAR CREEK.
THE PASSENGER TRAIN AVERAGES 96KM/H WHILE THE FREIGHT TRAIN AVERAGES 64KM/H
HOW FAR IS IT FROM CENTRAL CITY TO CLEAR CREEK?
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Question 185341: A passenger train leaves a train depot 2 hours ago after a freight train leaves the same depot. The freight train is travelling 20mph slower than the passenger train. Find the rate of each train if the passenger train overtakes the freight train in 3 hrs.
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Question 185661: Trains a and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling 40 mph and train B at 48 mph. Train A passes a station at 6:20 p.m. If train B passes the same direction at 6:50 p.m, at what time will train B catch up to train A
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Question 185854: 1) Officer Falheed and Officer O'Connell are 240km apart. They need to meet to transfer a suspect from one car to the other. They agree to leave at the same time, drive towards each other, and meet along the route. Falheed averages 70k/hr and O'Connell averages 80k/hr. How long will it take the teo to meet each other to transfer the suspect
a) 1 hr 36 min b) 1 hr 46 min c) 2 hr 36 min d) 2 hr 46 min
2) A motorcycle traveling 60mph overtakes a police patrol car traveling at 40mph that had a 3hr head start. How far from the starting point are the two vehicles?
a) 360miles b) 279 miles c) 187 miles d) 290 miles
3) A certain trip took 40 min to complete. If half the distance was 100 and the other half at 60, what's the distance traveled during the trip?
a) 68 b) 50
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Question 185717: A bus leaves a station in Phila at 1 pm and travels east on the pa turnpike traveling at an avg 40 miles per hour. A motorcycle leaves the same bus station at 1:30 pm and travels the same route as the bus. If the motorcycle avgs 60 mph, at what time will the motorcycle pass the bus?
I need to define the variables and create 2 equations. I have the answer of 2:30 but cannot derive the equations I need to get to this answer.
Even my parents can't figure it out.
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Question 186523: Diving time. The time t (in seconds) that it takes for a
cliff diver to reach the water is determined by the height
h (in feet) from which he dives:
t= Square Root of h/16
Sky diving. The formula in Exercise 109 accounts for the
effect of gravity only on a falling object. According to that
formula, how long would it take a sky diver to reach the
earth when jumping from 17,000 feet? (A sky diver can
actually get about twice as much falling time by spreading
out and using the air to slow the fall.)
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Question 186557: A man rode a bicycle for 12 miles and then hiked an additional 8 miles. The total time for the trip was 5 hours. If his rate when he was riding a bicycle was 10 miles per hour faster than his rate walking, what was each rate?
D = R x T
bike 12 mi r+10 5 hr
hike 8 mi r 5 hr
Am i on the right track?
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Question 186567: A bicyclist biking on a straight road at a steady 12 mph is being chased by a dog running at 15 miles per hour. If the cyclist is 50 feet ahead of the dog and each continues at the same rate, how long, to the nearest 10th of a minute, will it take the dog to catch up to the cyclist? (1 mile = 5,280 ft)
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Question 186606: An express train and a local train both leave Lake City at 12:00 noon and head for Chicago 60 miles away. The express train travel twice as fast as the local and arrives 2 hours ahead of it. Find the speed of each train.
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Question 186413: adam and david were both driving east on the same highway. at 5:00 p.m., adam traveling at 60 miles per hour, was 10 miles east of david. a little later, david, traveling at 70 miles per hour, passed adam. at what time did david pass adam?
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Question 186649: Two trains traveling on parallel tracks are going toward each other from a distance of 960 kilometers. if one train moving at 100 kilometers per hour and the other is moving at 140 kilometers per hour, after how many hours will the trains pass each other?
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Question 186697: A motorcycle traveling 60mph overtakes a police patrol car traveling at 40mph that had a 3hr head start. How far from the starting point are the two vehicles?
a) 360miles b) 279 miles c) 187 miles d) 290 miles
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Question 186697: A motorcycle traveling 60mph overtakes a police patrol car traveling at 40mph that had a 3hr head start. How far from the starting point are the two vehicles?
a) 360miles b) 279 miles c) 187 miles d) 290 miles
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Question 186441: Ali plans a road trip from Chicago to Detroit in his Honda Accord with an overnight stay in Hammond, Indiana. On Wednesday, he drove from Chicago to Hamond at an average speed of 47 mph. On Thursday, he continued to drive from Hamond to Detroit at an average speed of 69 mph. His driving time on Thursday is 2 hours longer that his driving time on Wednesday. If the total distance from Chicago to Detroit is 326 miles, then what is the total number of hours he drove on both days? How far is Detroit from Hamond, IN?
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Question 186720: Ali plans a road trip from Chicago to Detroit in his Honda Accord with an overnight stay in Hammond, Indiana. On Wednesday, he drove from Chicago to Hamond at an average speed of 47 mph. On Thursday, he continued to drive from Hamond to Detroit at an average speed of 69 mph. His driving time on Thursday is 2 hours longer that his driving time on Wednesday. If the total distance from Chicago to Detroit is 326 miles, then what is the total number of hours he drove on both days? How far is Detroit from Hamond, IN?
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Question 186854: A plane takes 6 hours to fly from San Francisco to New York, and 5 hours to return back. The wind velocity is 50 miles per hour, from New York to San Francisco. What is the speed of the airplane.
can you solve this for me?
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Question 186819: On Monday, Chuck drove from Norfolk to Valentine averaging 47 mph. On Tuesday he continued on to Chadron, averaging mph. His driving time on Monday was 2 hrs longer than his driving time on Tuesday. If the total distance from Norfolk to Chadron is 326 miles then how many hours did he drive on Monday? How far is it from Valentine to Chadron?
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Question 187052: Can you tell me how long it would take a locomotive traveling 3.53 miles per hour to travel 15 feet? 20 feet? 30 feet? Or, perhaps at least the formula for determining this sort of thing?
Many thanks!!!
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Question 187033: This is a strange problem our instructor gave us to solve. I cannot figure out how to do this particular probem. Can someone please help? Here it is. The Ohio River flows at a rate of 5 miles per hour. A patrol boat travels 40 miles upriver and returns in a total of 6 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water? I am so confused...
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Question 187200: This is from my text book. If you could show me how to set it up to solve that would be great!! Problem: Donna is late for a sales meeting after traveling from one town to another at a speed of 32mph. If she had traveled 4mph faster, she could have made the trip in 1/2 hr less time. How far apart are the towns?
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Question 187200: This is from my text book. If you could show me how to set it up to solve that would be great!! Problem: Donna is late for a sales meeting after traveling from one town to another at a speed of 32mph. If she had traveled 4mph faster, she could have made the trip in 1/2 hr less time. How far apart are the towns?
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Question 187209: This is from a text book and I cannot figure how to set it up and answer it.
CAR TRIP. During the first part of a trip, Trudy's Honda traveled 120 mi at a certain speed. Trudy then drove another 100 miles at a speed that was 10 mph slower. If the total time of Trudy's trip was 4 hr, what was her speed on each part of the trip? I am stumped at the moment. Thank you for your help.
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Question 187404: Hi I need help with 3 word problems. I don't even know where to begin. This is from my textbook.
According to Kepler's third law of planetary motion, the average radius R of the orbit of a planet around the sun is determined R=T^2/3, where T is the number of years for one orbit and R is measured in astronomical units.
a. It takes Mars 1,881 years to make one orbit of the sun. What is the average radius in AUs of the orbit of Mars?
b.The average radius of the orbit of Saturn is 9.05 AU. How many number of years does it take for Saturn to make one orbit of the sun?
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