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Question 1068607: The Washington monument built in memory of George Washington. Is 169.29 meter high at its tip. On the day Christopher and his family visited the monument, it cast a shadow 121.3 meters long. At that time, what was the distance from the tip of the monument to the tip of its shadow? Round your answer to the nearest meter.
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Question 1068584: The jones family will travel 500 miles to their holiday destination. They traveled 300 miles on the first day. What percentage of the total distance traveled the first day?
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Question 1068620: You can drive 264 miles in 6 hours. At this rate, how far can you drive in 3.5 hours?

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Question 1068565: Joe drops a rock down a very deep (400 meter) mine shaft in Jarbidge. How long will it take to hear the sound of the rock hitting after he lets go of it? The speed of sound is 343 meters / second and sound of course is not affected by gravity. You must take the speed of sound into consideration. Answer in seconds. Use the fact that g = 9.8 m/sec^2.
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Question 1068621: A ball is thrown vertically upward. After t seconds, its height h (in feet) is given by the function
h(t) = 60t - 16t^2
What is the maximum height that the ball will reach?
Do not round your answer.
Height: _____ feet
Please show steps to answer this problem. Thank you.
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Question 1068642: A motor cycle covers 40 km with a speed of 20km /h find the speed of the motor -cycle for the next 40 km journey so that the average speed of the whole journey will be 30 km /h

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Question 1068671: a glacier moves at 3.2*10 to the power of -7 kilometers per hour calculate how far in meters a glacier moves in 365 days

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Question 1068670: If you were traveling at 50 mph for 7 hours, then how many total miles have you traveled?
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Question 1068692: How many days is 8,201 miles?

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Question 1068722: An airplane took 2 hours to fly 600 km against a head wind. The return trip with the wind took 1 2/3 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 1068874: Michael drives 90 miles in 3 hours. Sarah drives 70 miles in 2 hours. Who drives faster and by how much?
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Question 1068873: At the same time, two trains start toward each other on parallel tracks, 450 miles apart. Train A�s constant rate is 55 mph. Train B�s is 65 mph. How long before they pass each other?

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Question 1068895: Two joggers, one averaging 5

mph and one averaging 4

mph, start from a designated initial point. The slower jogger arrives at the end of the run 35

minutes after the other jogger. Find the distance of the run.
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Question 1068902: A motorboat, moving at a speed of 10 km/hour, left a pier traveling against the current of the river. Forty-five minutes after the boat left the pier, the motor of the boat broke, and the boat began drifting with the current. After three hours of drifting with the current, the boat was back at the pier where it had started. What is the speed of the current of the river?
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Question 1068891: Peter drops a stick of dynamite down a deep hole near Spruce Mountain. He times it from the moment he lets go and hears the sound exactly 11.20 seconds later. If the speed of sound is 343 meters / second, how deep is this hole? You must take the speed of sound into consideration. Answer in meters. Use g = 9.8 m/sec^2.
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Question 1068857: A ladder is leaning against a building. The distance from he bottom of the ladder to the building is 18 ft shorter than the length out the ladder. How high up the side of the building is the top of the ladder of the distance is 9 ft less than the length of the ladder?
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Question 1068896: A small metal sphere falling out of a special metallic tungsten point hits the bottom of a vacuum chamber with a certain velocity as recorded by an sophisticated electronic Pockel's Cell timer. If the same experiment was performed in a chamber with twice the falling distance, by what factor would the velocity of the small metal sphere increase as it hits? Give a number such as 2 times as great, or 3.4 times as great, etc.
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Question 1069037: Two planes, which are 2920 miles apart, fly toward each other. Their speeds differ by 80 mph. If they pass each other in 4 hours, what is the speed of each?
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Question 1069053: if billy takes 40 km/h to travel home. how long will it take him to drive 50 km to town
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Question 1069142: A train averages a speed of 90 miles per hour across the plains and 37.5 miles per hour through the mountains. If a trip of 300 miles took 3 hour and 48 minutes, how much of it was through the mountains?
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Question 1069156: The distance from Lance�s home to his beach house is 80 miles. When biking back
from his beach house to his home, his average speed was 20% slower than his average speed biking from his home to his beach house. If the roundtrip time was 9 hours, what was his average speed, in miles per hour, from the beach house to his home?
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Question 1069164: Please help me with this problem regarding the distance and measurement across a lake.
Word Problem: https://s8.postimg.org/olxugpwsl/image.png
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Question 1069175: tom drove 320 miles in 6 hours. his average speed for the first part of the trip was 60 mph and his average speed for the second part of the trip was 50 mph. how long did each part of the trip take him?
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Question 1069227: A fisherman can row upstream at
22 mph and downstream at 88 mph. He started rowing upstream until he got tired and then rowed downstream to his starting point. How far did the fisherman row if the entire trip took
55 hours?
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Question 1069229: A man completed a trip of 136 km in 8 hours. Some parts of his trip was covered at 15km/hr and the remaining at 18km/hr. find the part of the trip covered at 18 km/hr.
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Question 1069250: A car travels 350 km in those in how many hours it reaches 600 km if it is travelling at a uniform speed ?

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Question 1069335: How long would it take me to travel 16 kilometers at an average rate of 5 km/hr
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Question 1069348: Adam travel 248 miles on Monday.He travels 167 on Tuesday.Which is the best estimate for total number of miles Adam travels.
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Question 1069248: two forces,3knot and 4knot are anclined at an angle 60 to each other find the resultant force
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Question 1069389: The traveler's ground speed is 2 ft/s against the walkway and 10 ft/s with the walkway. What is the traveler's speed off the walkway? What is the speed of the moving walkway?
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Question 1069347: How can the Law of Cosines be utilized to solve the arguable case of the oblique △ABC, a =ft, b =ft, and A =�.
Will the result be equivalent to when the Law of Sines is utilized to solve for the △?

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Question 1069487: The following places are three of the wettest locations on Earth. For each site, determine the rainfall in centimeters per year and fill in the missing information. Use the conversion equivalency of 2.54 centimeters (cm) = 1 inch.

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Question 1069530: How can the *Law of Cosines* be used to solve the ambiguous case of the oblique △ABC, whereas a=ft, b =ft, and A =�.
Will the result be the same as when the *Law of Sines* is used to solve for the oblique △? Thank you.
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Question 1069529: Brent and Lance leave a park on bikes at constant rates in opposite directions. After 2.5 hours they are 85 miles apart. If Lance bikes 2mph faster than Brent, how fast is Lance biking?
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Question 1069624: a boat can travel 420 miles on 42 gallons of gasoline. how far can it travel on 5 gallons

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Question 1069564: Jenny�s house is of a mile from the bus stop. If Jenny had to run of the way from her house to the bus stop, what portion of a mile did Jenny run?
Did Jenny run more or less than half a mile? Discuss this question with your team and record your answer. Be ready to explain your reasoning.
Copy all three diagrams and work with your team to figure out how to use each diagram to show of .
Which of the drawings does your team prefer? Using the diagram your team prefers, explain how it can be used and why you chose the drawing that you did.
What fraction of a whole is ?
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Question 1069658: a boat has travelled 25km in 7 hours 45 min.calculate speed of this boat in knots
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Question 1069663: Sam runs 30 yards in 3.6 seconds if he keeps the same speed how long will it take him to run 70 yards?
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