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Question 1128318: If I drove 12 miles in 10 minutes. At this rate how many miles did I drive per minute

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Question 1128318: If I drove 12 miles in 10 minutes. At this rate how many miles did I drive per minute

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Question 1128345: During the first part of a trip, Adrian drove 50 miles at a certain speed. Adrian drives another 50 miles on the second part of the trip at a speed 5 mph faster. Driving time for the entire trip was 88 mins. Find the rate at which Adrian drove during the first part of the trip.
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Question 1128381: An airplane flies 235 miles with a constant speed of 564 mph and another 225 miles with a constant speed of 540 mph. How much time in total does it take to travel these distances?
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Question 1128392: a man leaves his house at 8:00 AM and travelling at An average speed of 2 kph, arrives at his office 3 min ahead of the expected time. Had he left his house at 8:30 kph, he will arrive 6 min late of the expected time. What time should he arrive at the office?
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Question 1128413: A park has two sprinklers that are used to fill a fountain. One sprinkler can fill the fountain in 4 h, whereas the second sprinkler can fill the fountain in 12 h. How long will it take to fill the fountain with both sprinklers operating?

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Question 1128428: At noon a horse and buggy headed north at 10 miles per hour. Two hours later, the roadster headed south from the same location at 30 miles per hour. At what time will the horse and buggy be 80 miles from the roadster?
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Question 1128461: d= 11,151.36/64.4f+1.288 ft
Using that formula, find the values for d.
When f is 0.30 what is d?
When f is 0.50 what is d?
When f is 0.70 what is d?
When f is 0.90 what is d?

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Question 1128524: At 11:15 a.m., a train traveling to St. Louis is 375 miles from its destination. At 12:00 p.m., the train is 195 miles outside of St. Louis. Based on this information, what is the train's average rate of speed?
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Question 1128520: The distance to your sister's house is 52 miles, and the distance to Chicago is 728 miles. If it took 1 hour to drive to your sister's house, how long would it take to drive to Chicago?
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Question 1128666: A student first rode a bus traveling at an average speed of 30kph and then took a taxi traveling at 60kph. The entire distance was 150 km and the entire trip to 3hrs. How far did he travel riding the taxi?
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Question 1128724: A child is running on a moving sidewalk in an airport. When she runs against the sidewalk's motion, she travels 56ft in 8 seconds. When she runs with the sidewalk's motion, she travels 120ft in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the child on a still sidewalk and what is the rate of the moving sidewalk?
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Question 1128773: it takes John 7 hours to complete a journey of 640 km. He travels by train for the first 4 hours of the journey and the last part by car. the car travels 50 km/h faster than the train. What is the speed of the train
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Question 1128791: The graph shows how far Jim has traveled since he left his house. How long did Jim have to stop at a light for?
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Question 1128802: With a tailwind, a bird flew at a ground speed of 3 mi/h. Flying the same path against the same wind, the bird travels at a ground speed of 1.5 mi/h. What is the bird's air speed? What is the wind speed?
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Question 1128807: A plane flew for 4 hours against a 10mph wind. It then flew for 3 hours with the same wind. In all the plane flew for 1390 miles. Find the rate of the plane in still air
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Question 1128848: Nickola swam at a rate of 2 km/hr and ran at a rate of 9 km/hr for a total distance traveled of 46.5 km. If he completed the race in 7.5 hours, how long did he take to complete each part of the race?
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Question 1128853: Newport and Vernonville are 208 miles apart. A car leaves Newport traveling towards Vernonville, and another car leaves Vernonville at the same time, traveling towards Newport. The car leaving Newport averages 10 miles per hour more than the other, and they meet after 1 hour and 36 minutes. What are the average speeds of the cars?
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Question 1128850: Jim began a 237-mile bicycle trip to build up stamina for a triathlete competition. Unfortunately, his bicycle chain broke, so he finished the trip walking. The whole trip took 7 hours. If Jim walks at a rate of 4 miles per hour and rides at 42 miles per hour, find the amount of time he spent on the bicycle.
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Question 1128849: Thaddeus and Ian start at the same location and drive in opposite directions, but leave at different times. When they are 275 miles apart, their combined travel time is 12 hours. If Thaddeus drives at a rate of 20 miles per hour and Ian drives at a rate of 25 miles per hour, how long had each been driving?
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Question 1128851: Two towns are 1250 miles apart. A group of hikers start from each town and walk the trail toward each other. They meet after a total hiking time of 200 hours. If one group travels 1 and one half
mile per hour faster than the other group, find the rate of each group.
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Question 1128908: A boat's crew rowed 24 kilometers downstream, with the current, in 2 hours. The return trip upstream, against the current, covered the same distance, but took 3 hours. Find the crew's rowing rate in still water and the rate of the current.
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Question 1128909: Tom Johnson and Melissa Acino started driving at the same time in different cars from Oklahoma City. They both traveled south on Route 35. When Melissa covered a distance of 207 miles, Tom had only covered a distance of 177 miles. If Melissa averaged 10 miles per hour faster than Tom, find the average speed of each car.
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Question 1128935: Which of the following would you include in the system to study the effect of nearby electric wires on the behavior of fish in the fish tank? Pick all that apply and give her a reason for each choice.

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Question 1128942: A man rode his 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 the bicycle was 10 miles per hour faster than his rate walking, what was each rate?

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Question 1128955: A jogger has attempted to run across a railroad bridge, but sees a train coming after completing 3/4 of the trip. If the train is traveling at 30km/h, and if it is possible for the jogger to just escape being hit by the train by running at full speed to either end of the bridge, what is the minimum speed in km/h that this jogger must be able to run?
A)15 B)20 C)12 D)18 E)25
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Question 1128990: An electronics company makes two types of switches. Type A takes 3 minutes to make and requires $2 worth of materials. Type B takes 6 minutes to make and requires $6 of materials. In the latest production batch, it took 36 hours to make these switches, and the materials cost $1960. How many of each type of switch were made?
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Question 1128991: A furniture company makes large and small chairs. A small chair takes 20 minutes of machine time and 60 minutes of labor to build. A large chair takes 50 minutes of machine time and 90 minutes of labor to build. The company has 69 hours of labor time and 31 hours of machine time available each day. How many of each type of chair is built in a day?
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Question 1128989: A kayak can travel 16 miles downstream in 2 hours, while it would take 4 hours to make the same trip upstream. Find the speed of the kayak in still water, as well as the speed of the current. Let k represent the speed of the kayak in still water, and let c represent the speed of the current.
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Question 1128988: On Monday, Harold picked up six donuts and five large coffees for the office staff. He paid $ 6.86 . On Tuesday, Melinda picked up two donuts and four large coffees for the office staff. She paid $ 4.06 . What is the cost of one donut? What is the cost of one large coffee?
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Question 1128986: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction help pays heavy equipment operators $ 122 per day and general laborers $ 81 per day. If forty people were hired and the payroll was $ 4306 comma how many heavy equipment operators were employed? How many laborers?
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