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Question 1133619: A car used 34 gallons of gas to travel 825 miles. At that rate what amount of gas (rounded to the nearest tenth of a
gallon) is needed to travel 2425 miles?

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Question 1133730: harry drives his car for 15 miles at a certain speed. he then increases his speed by 10 miles per hour and drives for another 20 miles. if the total trip time takes one hour, find his original speed.
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Question 1133747: Can you please solve this?
On the first part of a 276-mile trip, a salesperson averaged 63 miles per hour. The salesperson averaged only 54 miles per hour on the last part of the trip because of an increased volume of traffic.
(a) Write the total time t for the trip as a function of the distance x traveled at an average speed of 63 miles per hour.
t(x) =

(b) Use a graphing utility to graph the time function. What is the domain of the function? (Enter your answer using interval notation.)
(c) Approximate the number of miles traveled at 63 miles per hour when the total time is 4 hours and 45 minutes.
x = mi
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Question 1133737: A boat and a plane leave from each of their ports going in the same direction at the same time. They are traveling at different speeds, but both the plane and the boat maintain their own consistent speed and direction. After a few minutes, the boat is 6 miles away from its port and the plane is 100 miles away from its port. How many miles will the plane be from its port when the boat is 54 miles away from its port?
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Question 1133788: if a horse runs 1 and a half miles in 2 minutes 30 seconds what is his unit speed

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Question 1133788: if a horse runs 1 and a half miles in 2 minutes 30 seconds what is his unit speed

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Question 1133795: if a horse ran 1 and half miles in 2 minutes 30 seconds what is his speed in mph
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Question 1133795: if a horse ran 1 and half miles in 2 minutes 30 seconds what is his speed in mph
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Question 1133733: Mario invested 855 in 45 and 25 stock shares. The number of 25 shares was nine less than three times the number of 45 shares. How many of each type of share did he buy .
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Question 1133894: A motorboat can maintain a constant speed of 13 miles per hour relative to the water. The boat makes a trip upstream to a certain point in 45 minutes; the return trip takes 33 minutes. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 1133918: What is the total distance that two people travel in 5 h if one of them is riding a bike at 18 mi/h and the other is walking at 3 mi/h?

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Question 1133929: If a canoe travels with a speed of A mph for 3 hours, and then with a speed of B mph for the rest of the journey, how long does it take to travel C miles?
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Question 1133998: Noah and Ben are running in the Walker Street Fun Run. Noah runs at 7 mph, Ben at 5 mph. If they start at the same time, how long (in minutes) will it be before they are 1/5 mile apart?

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Question 1134004: If Frank and Susan leave their houses at the same time and walk toward
each other, each at his or her own constant rate, they will meet after 5
minutes. If Frank leaves 3 minutes after Susan, they will meet after Frank
has been walking 3 minutes. How long will it take Frank to walk from his
house to Susan’s house?
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Question 1133985: A strip of metal 2.5 km long is clamped to the ground during the winter with one clamp at each end. It expands 1 m in length during the hot summer, bulging up in the middle as a result. What is the highest distance, in m, that the metal strip could be above ground in the middle?
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Question 1134055: Starting at midnight, how many times does the minute hand of a clock pass the hour hand in a 24-hour period?
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Question 1134062: Two speedboats leave the same dock at the same time and travel in exactly opposite directions. One boat is traveling 14mph faster than the other boat. In half an hour the boats are 48 mi apart.
Find the rate of the faster boat ?
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Question 1134078: Two high-speed ferries leave at the same time from a city to go to the same island. The first ferry, the Cat, travels at 39 miles per hour. The second ferry, the Bird, travels at 28 miles per hour. In how many hours will the two ferries be 55 miles apart?

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Question 1134118: A mother divides an amount of money among her three children, Kagiso, Dikeledi and Thabo. Kagiso gets
twice as much as his sister, Dikeledi, and Dikeledi gets R100 less than Thabo. Suppose Kagiso gets x rand.
How much does Thabo get, in terms of x?
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Question 1134198: Jim and Tom , working together , can weed the garden in 3 hours. Working alone , Tom takes three times as long as Jim . How long does it take Jim to weed the garden alone ?
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Question 1134199: If barbara were to paint her living room alone, it would take 4 hours . Her sister sarah could do the job in 5 hours . How long would it take them working together ? If needed Reduce to lowest terms
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Question 1134173: As part of an exercise regimen, you walk 3 miles on an indoor track. Then you jog at three times your walking speed for another 3 miles. If the total time spent walking and jogging is 4 Hours,find the walking and jogging rates.

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Question 1134255: Hi
a rectangle has the following sides
the widths are x^2 & y respectively
the lengths are 4y+8 & 20x-16 respectively
one side must have an odd integer length.
what is the perimeter.
Thanks
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Question 1134266: Rachel takes three trains to commute to her job the commute takes her on average , 1hour and 20 minutes. If she walks for about 15 minutes and rides the trains for about 53 minutes. What's her average waiting time at each of the three train stations?
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Question 1134324: Do you want to go to an amusement park. The distance between your house and the amusement park is 110 miles. Your rate of travel is 55 mph. Use the formula d = rt to write an equation. Use mental math to solve the equation for the time we spent traveling.
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Question 1134342: Peters walks 240 meters east to Mark's house. From there the two boys walked going to the bus station which is 480 meters 45 degrees north of east from Mark's house. The bus then traveled 880 meters north. How far is the school from Peters house?
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Question 1134418: Normally it takes John 2.5 hours to drive from his house to his office. Due to yesterday's snowy weather he was driving 10 mph slower than usually, and it took 3 hours. How many miles is the office away from John's house?
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Question 1134420: One number is bigger than another by 406. If the bigger number is divided by the smaller one, you’ll get the quotient 3 and remainder 66. Find the numbers.
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Question 1134417: Adam can fence their garden in 6 hours, while his brother can do the same job in 10 hours. How long will it take them to do this job together?
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Question 1134419: Two boxes contained 155 lb of flour. If you take 20 lb from the first and add it to the second, the first box will contain 12/19 of what is now in the second. What amount of flour was originally in each box?
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Question 1134427: Normally it takes John 2.5 hours to drive from his house to his office. Due to yesterday's snowy weather he was driving 10 mph slower than usually, and it took 3 hours. How many miles is the office away from John's house? Thank you for solving this problem! :)
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Question 1134452: You have a dentist appointment at 2pm.
The dentist is 60km away and you expect to drive at 60km per hour, so you leave at 1pm.
For the first half of the road, traffic is bad so you drive at half your expected speed.
How fast do you need to travel to arrive on time?

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Question 1134482: If a train travels at 80 mph for 15 min, what is the distance traveled?
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Question 1134523: two buses arrive at the central avenue bus stop at 8 a.m. the route for the city loop bus takes 35 minutes, while the route for the by-pass bus takes 20 minutes. what is the next time that the two buses will both be at the central avenue bus stop?
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Question 1134526: An express train travels 348 mi in the same amount of time it takes a freight train to travel 210 mi. The rate of the express train is 23 mph faster than that of the freight train. Find the rate of the freight train.

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Question 1134548: In a two-mile race, Ed can beat Faith by 1/5 of a mile. In a two-mile race,
Faith can beat Matt by 1/10 of a mile. If Ed and Matt were to have a two mile race, by how much would Ed win?
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