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Question 1093430: Two cyclists leave towns
132mi
apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One cyclist travels
4

/mih
faster than the other. If they meet in
3
hours, what is the rate of each cyclist?

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Question 1093437: An airplane traveled 1,900 miles at a speed of 475 mph. How long did it take the airplane to travel this distance?

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Question 1093440: The speed of iron man as he flies through the air is 1,2. He travels 2,4. How long did it take for him to his final destination?
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Question 1093464: The Earth, in a slightly elliptical orbit around the Sun, travels at 3.04 x 10^4m/s at perihelion (the point of closest approach, Jan.3), at a distance of 147.3 million kilometers. At aphelion (the farthest distance, around July 3), 152.3 million km from the Sun, how fast is the Earth moving?
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Question 1093473: A train is traveling at 80 miles per hour, from Charlotte to Atlanta. The total distance the train traveled
was 360 miles. How long did it take for the train to travel from Charlotte to Atlanta?
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Question 1093541: A rubber band company manufactures 6,764 rubber bands each minute. They put 88 rubber bands in a bag. How many bags of rubber bands do they make in a minute? What would be a good estimate for how many bags of rubber bands they make in an hour?
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Question 1093608: The distance between two cities is 2200 km. How long will it take, in h, to drive from one city to the other if your average speed is 87 mi/h?
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Question 1093640: A pedestrian is crossing a 30 ft roadway at a speed of 3.5 mph. How long in seconds would it take for the pedestrian to cross?
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Question 1093709: An airplane travels east at an air speed of 410 m/s with a tail wind of 35 m/s. What is the airplane�s ground speed?
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Question 1093709: An airplane travels east at an air speed of 410 m/s with a tail wind of 35 m/s. What is the airplane�s ground speed?
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Question 1093731: A motorist left town at 9:45 a.m and arrived at his destination at 1:05 p.m. If he traveled at an average speed of 84 kph, find the total distance covered

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Question 1093776: Mary and Alan leave for work at the same time. By the time Mary is 3 miles from home, the distance between them is one mile more than Alan's distance from home. How far from home is Alan? Is it 4 miles?
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Question 1093796: Jane took
15 min to drive her boat upstream to water-ski at her favorite spot. Coming back later in the day, at the same boat speed, took her
5 min. If the current in that part of the river is
2 km per hr, what was her boat speed in still water?
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Question 1093849: How long will it take to drive 2,070 km at 90 km per hour, if you take a one-hour break after every 4 hours?
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Question 1093848: thomas, john and larry each drivers 150 km journey from singapore to kuala lumpur at speeds of 80 100 and 120 km/h respectively. what fraction of the total time does thomas drive ?
a. 15/74
b. 4/15
c. 15/37
d. 3/5
e. 5/4
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Question 1093868: A jet plane, flying 90 mph faster than a propeller plane, travels 3600 miles in 2 hours less time than the propeller plane takes to fly the same distance. How fast does each plane fly?
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Question 1093869: A boat heads north at 30 mph while a steamer heads east at 40 mph at the same time. When is the distance between them 50 mi?
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Question 1093863: It takes a plane two hours to fly from Detroit to New York and only an hour and thirty minutes to return. If the wind speed is 25 mph. How far apart are the two cities?
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Question 1093864: On a hike up hill, Ted climbs at 3 miles an hour. Going back down, he runs at 5 miles an hour. If it takes him forty minutes longer to climb up than run down, then what is the length of the hike?
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Question 1093876: Two motorcycles are travelling at speeds of 120 kilometers per hour and 90 kilometers per hour respectively. If the faster one travels for 4 hours longer than the slower one and also goes twice as far, how far did the slow one travel?
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Question 1093875: A freight train leaves a station and travels east at an average speed of 48 mph. Later, a passenger train leaves the same station on parallel tracks and follows the freight train at an average speed of 60 mpg. If the passenger train overtakes the freight in 2 hours, how much of a head start did the freight train have?
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Question 1093985: On a Christmas tree a first set of ligjts flashes every 3 seconds, a second set of lights flashes every 4 seconds and a third set of lights flaahes every 10 seconds. If the lights all came on at 10:00 am, at what time will they all come on together again?
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Question 1094001: In the sahara desert. One day it was 155�f. In the gobi desert a temperature of - 69�f was recorded. What is the difference between these two temperatures?
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Question 1093987: The school bus travels 5 miles on one gallon of gas. How many gallons of gas will the bus use on it's 20 mile route
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Question 1093970: Sam works in a town which is 312 miles away if it took him six hours to get there what was his average speed
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Question 1094022: Adam and Leslie are 200 feet apart. They start running towards each other. Adam runs at an average of 17 ft/s and Leslie runs at 13 ft/s. How far has Adam run when they meet?
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Question 1094065: Two trains traveling on parallel tracks are going toward each other from a distance of 455455 miles. If the freight train is moving at 4444 mph and the passenger train is moving at 4747 mph, when will the trains pass each other?
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Question 1094064: Walt rode his bike from home to the bicycle repair shop and then walked home. He averaged 18 km/h riding and 6 km/h walking. If his total travel time was one hour, how far is it to the shop from Walt's home?
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Question 1094047: Two motorcycles are traveling at speeds of 120 kilometers per hour and 90 kilometers per hour respectively. If the faster one travels for 4 hours longer than the slower one and also goes twice as far, how far did the slow one travel?
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Question 1094098: How many months does it takes for a ship from Lagos sea port of Nigeria to arrive in Texas sea port of united States?
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Question 1094100: The velocity of sound in dry air increase as the temperature increases. At 40 degrees sound travels at a rate of 355 meters per second. At 49 degrees sound travels at a speed of 360 meters per second. Write a linear model for the velocity v (in meters per second) of sound based on the temperature T (in degrees Celsius). Then use your model to estimate the velocity of sound at 60 degrees.
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Question 1094130: You inherit $18,750 with the stipulation that for the first year the money must be invested in two stocks paying 10% and 12% annual interest, respectively. How much should be invested at each rate if the total interest earned for the year is to be $2117?
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Question 1094155: There are 5,280 feet in a mile. What part of a mile, in decimal form, will you drive until you reach the exit? The exit is 1,000 feet.
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Question 1094187: Leona Jackson and Sam Peterson love to walk. Leona walks 5 miles per hour. Sam walks 6 miles per hour. Assume they start walking from the same place and walk in a straight line. Sam starts 1/2 hour after Leona. How long will it take Sam to meet Leona? How many miles would each have walked?
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Question 1094250: The odometer of a family car shows 15,951 miles. The driver noticed that this number is palindrome: it reads the same backward as forward. Surprised, the driver saw his third palindromic odometer reading (not counting 15,951) exactly five hours later. How many miles per hour was the car traveling in those 5 hours (assuming speed was constant)?

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Question 1094311: An airplane flies 1440 miles in 2 2/3 hours. What is its average speed in miles per hour
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Question 1094378: a rental truck and a car traveling toward each other on the interstate are 220 miles apart. If the car is traveling 20 miles per hour faster than the rental truck, and they pass after 2 hours, how fast each vehicle traveling?
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