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Question 1069646: 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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Question 1069658: a boat has travelled 25km in 7 hours 45 min.calculate speed of this boat in knots
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Question 1069683: X an Y are two stations 500 km apart. A train starts form X and moves towards Y at 20 km/hr. Another rain starts from Y at the same time and moves towards X at 30 km/hr. How far from X will they cross each other:
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Question 1069707: James ran 1/3 of the way around the track in 20 seconds. He knows that he runs 1km every 4 minutes. How long is the track? How many times would he have to run all the way around the track to go 5 km?
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Question 1069758: two cars enter I-95 at the same time one from Savannah and the other from Jacksonville. The distance from savannah to jacksonville is 136 miles. the car from savannah is traveling at 55 mph, the car from jacksonville is traveling at 70 mph. how long will it take for the two cars to pass each other? what distance will each car have traveled before passing each other?

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Question 1069826: A man travels up a hill at 12 mph. He realizes he forgot his lunch and goes down the hill the exact same way at 25 mph. The entire trip took 4.6 hours. What was his average speed throughout the entire trip?
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Question 1069853: 22 miles in 4 hours implies how many miles in 7 hours
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Question 1069873: A Car A left City X, traveling at an average of 50 miles per hour. Two hours later, a Car B left City X, traveling on the same road at an average velocity of 70 miles per hour. When will the Car B catch up to the Car A? How far will each car have traveled?
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Question 1069861: Bob has 19 coins totaling $1.45. If he only has dimes and nickels, how many of each coin does he have?
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Question 1069888: An airplane has enough fuel for 3 hours of safe flying. On the trip out the pilot averages 200 mph flying against a headwind. On the trip back, the pilot averages 250 mph. How long a trip out can the pilot make?
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Question 1069897: robinson crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island. his wrecked ship is 120 yards from the shore, 300 yards down the shore from the point on the shore closest to his ship. Crusoe makes many trips between the hut and the ship and wants to minimize the time each trip takes. He can walk 130 yards per minute and pole his raft 50 yards per minute. where on the shoreline should he moor his raft so that the trips can be made in minimum time? define the function that models the total time to make the trip as a function of x, the distance down the shoreline from the wreck. find the value of x that will minimize the total time Round to the nearest yard.
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Question 1070022: Terry runs at a constant rate of 6 miles per hour. He ran for 2 hours after school. How many miles did he run?

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Question 1070038: Alicia drove 265 miles in 5 hours. What is the average rate that she traveled?
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Question 1070135: Amy cycled a total of 6 kilometers by making 3 trips to work. How many trips will Amy have to make to cycle a total of 12 kilometers? Assume the relationship is directly proportional.

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Question 1070183: Susan avaraged 96 miles per hour on the way to work to make a sales call. On the way home she averaged 84 miles per hour and took her 1 hour longer to drive home than it did to drive to work. What was the total driving time for susan's trip?
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Question 1070304: In which of the following pairs is one unit 1\1000 times the other.
Options
Metre-kilometre. gram-hectogram
Gram - decigram. gram-decagram
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Question 1070353: while driving home from school you travel at 100 km/h for 120 km then slow to 60 km/h you get home in 2 hours.
1: How far is you home town from school?
2: What is the average speed?

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Question 1070369: I tried using the sto key for this on my calculator but I don't think I put it in properly. I tried different ways to substitute the answers with the questions but I couldn't find the solution. The question is:
'Maria's 7-hour drive to college was 355 miles long. She averaged 45 miles per hour for the first 2 hours. Which of the following is closest to her average speed in miles per hour, for the remainder of her drive?
A.) 38
B.) 51
C.) 53
D.) 55
E.) 56
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Question 1070505: A man takes 5 hours and 20 minutes to row 6 miles up a river and back. If he can row 3 miles downstream in the same time that he can row 1 mile upstream, find the rate at which he rows and the rate of the current.

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Question 1070567: This problem outlines how Eratosthenes of Cyrene approximated the diameter of the earth in approximately 200BC. By observing the shadow of the sun at noon he recognized that his home town of Alexandria was approximately 7.2∘north of the town of Syene. He paid somebody to walk and measure the distance between Syene and Alexandria. Suppose it is 787 km. Based on these figures, what is the circumference of the earth in kilometers.
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Question 1070590: what is 2x+34X}+109=
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Question 1070600: The speed of the current in a river is 6 mph. A ferry operator who works that part of the river is looking to buy a new boat. Every day, his route takes him 22.5 miles against the current and back to his dock, and he needs to make this trip in a total of 9 hours. he has a boat in mind, but he can only test in on a... show more he speed of the current in a river is 6 mph. A ferry operator who works that part of the river is looking to buy a new boat. Every day, his route takes him 22.5 miles against the current and back to his dock, and he needs to make this trip in a total of 9 hours. he has a boat in mind, but he can only test in on a lake where there is no current. How fast must the boat go on the lake in order for it to serve the ferry operator's needs?
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Question 1070606: Please help me find the let statements and the 2 equations for this word problem. Susan biked 2 hours. On her way back it took her 30 mins less. She biked 74 km. How strong was the wind current?
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Question 1070611: if you cycled at the speed of 10 miles/hr for 2 hours then went a little slow for the next two hours cycling at 6 ,miles/ hr, how far did you cycle in these 4 hours?
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Question 1070717: Yesterday, Linda went on a bike ride. He average speed was 9MPH. Today, she went on another ride, this time averaging 14MPH. In the two days, she biked for a combined total time of 9 hours let x be the number of hours she biked yesterday. Write an expression for the combined total number of miles she biked in the two days.
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Question 1070721: if the speed of a car is increased from 90km/h to 120km/h, the time is reduced by one hour to reach the destination. Calculate the distance between the two towns.
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Question 1070738: What is the velocity of a bicycle (in meters per second) if it travels 3 km west in 14.5 minutes?
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Question 1070747: A car drives 400 miles at 60 mph then 150 miles at 40 mph then 10 miles at 25 mph.How long is the full driving time for the trip ?
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Question 1070742: A car drives 400 miles at 6 mph then 150 miles at 40 mph then 10 miles at 25 mph how long is the full driving time for the trip?
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Question 1070742: A car drives 400 miles at 6 mph then 150 miles at 40 mph then 10 miles at 25 mph how long is the full driving time for the trip?
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Question 1070742: A car drives 400 miles at 6 mph then 150 miles at 40 mph then 10 miles at 25 mph how long is the full driving time for the trip?
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Question 1070839: it took Miguel 3.5 hours to drive from city a to city b. on his way back to city a, he increases his speed by 20 km per hour and it took him 3 hours. find the average speed for the whole journey
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Question 1070826: A train leaves New York for Boston, 200 miles away, at 3:00 P.M. and averages 45 mph. Another train leaves Boston for New York on an adjacent set of tracks at 4:00 P.M. and averages 60 mph. At what time will the trains meet?
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Question 1070899: two cars leave towns 480 kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One car's rate is 20 kilometers per hour less than the other's. If they meet in 3 hours, what is the rate of the slower car?
Is this correct?
3r+3(r-20)=480
3r+3r-60=480
6r-60=480
6r/6=540/6
r=90 ???? rate of the slower car? and is there a way to check this myself?
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Question 1070918: A car is traveling for 3hours and covers a distance of 360km. After how long will it take the same car to travel a distance of 450 km at the same constant speed?
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Question 1070953: Kayla was on her scooter and riding at a speed of 4 kilometers every 3 minutes about how long will it take her to get to her aunts house if she lives 62 kilometers away
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Question 1071054: A passenger train traveled 180 miles in the same amount of time it took a freight train to travel 120 miles. The rate of the freight train was 15 miles per hour slower than the rate of the passenger train. Find the rate of the passenger train.

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Question 1071096: A car travel 90 km in 2:30 hr

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