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Question 1088920: if you are traveling 115 mph, how long would it take you to travel 47.2 miles?

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Question 1088926: Two buses leave towns 760mi apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One bus travels
18 mi/h slower than the other. If they meet in
5 hours, what is the rate of each bus?
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Question 1088906: Rita is driving a racecar. The table below gives the distance d(t) (in meters) she has driven at a few times t (in seconds) after she starts.
Time t Distance D(t)
(seconds) (meters)
0 0
3 78.3
4 147.6
6 185.4
9 287.1
(a) find the average rate of change for the distance driven from 0 to 4 seconds.
(b) find the average rate of change for the distance driven from 6 to 9 seconds.
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Question 1089007:
Ryan rides his bike for 30 minutes and travels a distance of 4 miles. How fast was Joe traveling?
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Question 1089064: It took an hour for a boat to go six miles upstream. Using the same effort and taking the same path,the boat took only 45 minutes to return. What was the speed of the boat in still water? What was the speed of the current?
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Question 1089102: Eric decided to drive across the country. The route he took covered a total of 3420 miles. One day, he determined that his distance from his starting point was exactly 60 miles more than twice the distance remaining until the finishing point. How far was Eric from the finishing point of his trip? Define the unknown quantities in terms of a variable.
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Question 1089105: a trip to a nearby island takes 3 hours by boat and half an hour by airplane. How many times as fast as the boat is the plane?
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Question 1089138: if a body is dropped, the distance (s meters) through which it falls freely in t seconds is approximately 16t^2.
a. Show that the distances through which it falls during the first, second, third,..... forms an AP?
b. How far will the body fall in the tenth second?
c. How far will it fall the 20 seconds?
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Question 1089142: How fast does a 45,000 lb vehicle have to traveling to move a stationary 6000 lb vehicle 20 ft.
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Question 1089154: A ball is thrown vertically upward. After t seconds, its height h (in feet) is given by the function h(t)=40t-16t^2. After how long will it reach its maximum height?
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Question 1089156: Find a polynomial f(x) of degree 3 that has the following zeros:
-2 (multiplicity 2), 5
Leave answer in factored form.
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Question 1089107: Typically, the heaviest organ in the human body is the skin, weighing about 9 lbs. By contrast the heart weighs about .6 lbs How many times the weight of the heart is to the weight of the skin?
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Question 1074218: a boy walks to a picnic spot from his house in 6 hours but he can travel the same distance on cycle in hours. if his average cycling speed is 7 km per hours faster than his average walking speed. find his average walking speed and his average cycling speed.
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Question 1089302: Kyle and Steve start at the same point and walk in opposite directions. If Kyle walks at 4 mph and Steve walks at 4 mph, how far apart will they be after 3 hours?
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Question 1089353: Riding mostly downhill, Joan rode her ten-speed bicycle to the state fair in 1.5 h. It took 4.2 h to make the return trip, since her average speed was 36 km/h less than her average speed on the way tot he fair. Find her average speed in each direction.
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Question 1089379: A jet flow at an average speed of 280 mph from Point X to Point Y. Because of head winds, the jet averaged only 260 miles on the return trip, the return trip took 10 minutes longer. How many hours was the flight from Point Y to Point X?
Please help. Thanks.
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Question 1089451: what is the answer to the following?

Gemma's mean speed on her drive home from Detroit is 66mph. If the total trip is 132 miles, how long should she expect the drive to take? Round your answer to two decimal places, if necessary.
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Question 1089509: a cruise ship made a trip of 100 mi in 8 h the ship traveled the first 40 mi at a constant rate before increasing its speed by 5 mph another 60 mi was traveled at the increased speed fond the rate of the cruise ship for the first 40 mi?
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Question 1089566: If Saleem is traveling on a car with 50km/h on a road of 300km, how much time will it take to arrive?
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Question 1089571: Assume 365 days per year. If 15 people are selected at random, what is the probability that at least two of them will have the same birthday?

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Question 1089619: if saleem is travelling on a car with 50km/h on a road of 300km.how much time it will arrive?
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Question 1089682: Hello,

I need help with these two problems. I dont know how to set them up, If could set them up for me then I would be happy to solve them.
The Divine Chocolate store want to create a new truffle mix that consists of milk chocolate and hazelnut. If hazelnuts sell for $2 per pound and milk chocolate sells for $4 per pound, how many pounds of each should they mix together to create a 18-pound box that sells for $3 per pound?
A chemist wants to mix a 60% alcohol solution with 9 liters of a 66% alcohol solution to produce a solution that is 62% alcohol. How many liters of the 60% alcohol solution should be used?
Thank you so much!
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Question 1089678: A bus took a 13-hour trip and traveled 646 miles. The speed was 40 mph for the first part of the trip, and then increased to 58 mph for the second part of the trip. How many hours were traveled at each speed?
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Question 1089679: Twelve hours after a convict escapes from prison, a guard begins to pursue him. If the convict travels at 10 mph on foot, and the guard travels at 70 mph by car, how far from the prison will the convict be caught by the guard?
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Question 1089680: Eight hours after a runner and cyclist leave the house at the same time and head in the same direction, the cyclist is 88 miles ahead of the runner. If the cyclist's speed is 2 mph more than twice the speed of runner, find the speed of the runner and the cyclist.
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Question 1089731: You are travelling in acar with speed 108 km/h. Assume that you need to stop within 4 sec. in a situation of danger. How far will the car go during that time if you do not brake?
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Question 1089807: A bus and a matatu start from Nairobi to kisii via narok at the same time marking a distance of 280km .The matatu averages 20km/h faster than the bus and reaches 96minutes earlier.determine speed of the bus

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Question 1089797: An object which is vertically projected or falls from the sky has a velocity of v and is given by: v = -32t + vo, where v is the velocity in feet/sec, t is the time in seconds, and vo is the initial velocity in feet per second. If the initial velocity is 159 feet/sec, and the velocity v is in the range of 25 < v < 53, find the time interval t.

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Question 1089920: I am trying to help my daughter with this word problem and I am struggling. Here is the problem:
Sherry is travelling from Los Angeles to Miami. On the way there she travels at a speed of 40 mph. She stays in Miami for 20 hours then returns home travelling at 35 mph. She is gone from her home a total of 47 hours.

What is the equation using t as the variable to represent the amount of time that Sherry spent driving from Los Angeles to Miami?
What is the distance from Los Angeles to Miami?
Any help you an offer would be great.
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Question 1089962: Pat travels 70 miles on her milk route, and Bob travels 75 miles on his route. Pat travels 5 miles per hour slower than Bob, and her route takes her one half hour longer than Bob's. How fast is each one travelling?
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Question 1090051: The time t required to drive a certain distance varies inversely with the speed r. If it takes 2 hours to drive the distance at 30 miles per hour, how long will it take to drive the same distance at 50 miles per hour?
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Question 1090041: A man cycles at an average speed of 10 kilometers pee hour. How many days will it take him to travel 1000 kilometres, if he cannot cycle more than 8 hours per day?
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Question 1090110: Train travels 250km in an hour. How much time take to reach 750km?
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