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Question 1144051: Two trains left a station at the same time. One traveled north at a certain speed and the other traveled south at twice that speed. After 4 hours, the trains were 600 miles apart. How fast was each train traveling.
600=2x+4
296=2x
x=298 miles per hour and 149 miles per hour???
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Question 1144049: Amadeus could travel 760 miles in twice the time it took his nemesis Salieri to travel 220 miles. If Amadeus's rate exceeded that of Salieri by 40 miles per hour, find the rates and times of both men.
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Question 1144062: A body which is uniformly retarded to rest in 10sec after travelling a distance of 20m calculate the initial velocity

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Question 1144165: A family goes on vacation to a water park. During the drive to the water park the weather caused the family to average 44 miles per hours. After their vacation the weather improved, so they could average 80 miles per hour on the return trip. If the distance each way was equal, and the entire time driving was 6.2 hours, find the distance one way to the water park.
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Question 1144179: A car travels at 40 mph east for 20 miles then at 60 mph east for 15 minutes. How do you find the average speed and the average velocity?
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Question 1144191: A jet plane travels a distance of 1400km at a steady speed of 585km/h calculate the time taken by the jet to complete this distance
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Question 1144196: What’s the average velocity of a bicycler who travels 4567 meters north in 15 minutes
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Question 1144208: student tickets at a high school basketball game cost $2.50 each adult tickets cost $6 each the ticket sales at the first game of the season total $7,000 write a model that shows the numbers of student and adult ticket that could have been sold then graph the model and determine three combinations of student and adult tickets that satisfy the model
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Question 1144215: Joshua had a flat tire after biking 2/3 of his way home. He walked the rest of the way home. If his walking time was three times his biking time, how many times faster is his biking speed than his walking speed?
A)-2
B)-15
C)-3
D)-6
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Question 1144222: Using this pattern,how many kilometers would he traveled in8 1/2hours?

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Question 1144232: Daniel rode his bike for 2 hours and travled 24 miles total. At what rate was he travling. Round to the nearest hundredth
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Question 1144209: evaluate cos(2theta - pi/2)
I need the most detail
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Question 1144280: Jennifer and her her brother Michael enjoy racing each other. One day, Michael challenges his sister to a race. Michael said set off on his bike at a constant speed of 15 km/h. 20 minutes later, Jennifer sits off in pursuit. What is the minimum speed that Jennifer must travel out in order to catch Michael 30 minutes after she sets off?
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Question 1144305: D = rt where r is the rate of travel and t is the time spent traveling. If you need to travel 760 miles in 7 hours, what rate should you maintain? (Round to the nearest tenth.)

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Question 1144384: You ride your bike for 1.5 h at an average velocity of 10 km/h, then for 30 min at 13 km/h. What is your average velocity?
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Question 1144384: You ride your bike for 1.5 h at an average velocity of 10 km/h, then for 30 min at 13 km/h. What is your average velocity?
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Question 1144409: Water is sold in half-liter bottles what is the mass in kilograms and grams
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Question 1144409: Water is sold in half-liter bottles what is the mass in kilograms and grams
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Question 1144452: mr. and mrs. austria love to run around the town. from past experiences, they know that mr. austria can run 6km in the time it takes mrs. austria to run 4km. they have decided that they need to run the same distance, 9km, and finish together. how much of a head start does mrs. austria need them to finish together?
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Question 1144498: what is the answer to 128 inches into 16 hours

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Question 1144498: what is the answer to 128 inches into 16 hours

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Question 1144498: what is the answer to 128 inches into 16 hours

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Question 1144504: You row a canoe x miles per hour down a river for 20 mins. On the return trip, you travel 1 mile per hour slower. The return trip takes 30 mins. How far did you ride in the canoe in total?
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Question 1144513: Example: Carly hikes at 1.4 m/s [E] for 1.0 hours, then travels 1.0 m/s [S] for 15 minutes.
a) Determine her distance travelled as well as her displacement.
b) determine her average velocity.
c) determine her average speed.
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Question 1144501: Mike and his brothers can row a boat 18 km per hour in still water. It takes them as long to row 14 km downstream and 10 km upstream. Find the speed of the stream.
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Question 1144511: after landing a jetliner on a straight runway taxis to stop at an average velocity of -35km/hr. if the plan take 7s to come to a rest, what are the plane's intial velocity and accleration
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Question 1144528: A school group is traveling together on a school bus. The bus leaves a rest stop on an interstate highway
at 1:00 pm and travels at a rate of 60 mph. One of the students did not get back on the bus before it
left. A highway patrol car leaves the rest stop with the student at 1:30 pm and tries to catch the bus. If
the patrol car averages 80 mph, at what time will it catch the bus? How far from the rest stop will the
bus have traveled?
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Question 1144531: An airplane is 3349 m above sea level. At the same time, a submarine is directly under the plane at 1648 m below sea level. How far above the submarine is the plane?
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Question 1144549: A man flies a small airplane from Fargo to Bismarck, North Dakota --- a distance of 180 miles. Because he is flying into a head wind, the trip takes him 2 hours. On the way back, the wind is still blowing at the same speed, so the return trip takes only 1 hour 12 minutes. What is his speed in still air, and how fast is the wind blowing?
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Question 1144556: you have enough wallpaper to cover 240 square feet. if your walls are 8 feet high what wall length can your paper?
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Question 1144558: The sum of the speeds of two trains is 725.8

miles per hour. If the speed of the first train is 10.2

mph faster than that of the second train, find the speeds of each.
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Question 1144566: The speed of an express train is x km per hour and the speed of the ordinary train is 40 km per hour less than that of the express train. If the ordinary train takes 2 hours longer that the express train to cover a distance of 480 km, find the speed of the express train.

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Question 1144575: I need help with this problem - Two cyclists ride at 8:00 am: one from A to B, the other from B to A. Each of them rode along a constant speed along the same road and when each arrived at the terminal point, immediately turned back. They met each other for the first time at 11:00 am and each of them turned exactly once before they met for the second time. Find the time of the second meeting.
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Question 1144577: A motorist travels a distance of 84km. He finds that; if on the return journey he increases his average speed by 4km/h, he will take half an hour less.
What was his average speed for the first part of the journey?
How long did he take for the double journey?
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Question 1144619: A rock is thrown vertically upward with a speed of 15.0 m/s from the roof of a building that is 70.0 m above the ground. Assume free fall. What is the speed of the rock just before it strikes the ground?
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Question 1144622: Two buses leave towns 466 km apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One bus travels 15 km/h faster than the other. If they meet in 2 hours, what is the rate of each bus?
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Question 1144626: Two jets leave an air base at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One jet travels 77 mi/h faster than the other. If the two jets are 11,208 apart after 8 hours, what is the rate of each jet?

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