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Question 1154487: Please help me solve: Suppose Kyle and Daniel were each traveling to their respective homes from college. Kyle traveled south at 60 miles per hour while Daniel traveled east at 65 miles per hour. How fast was the distance between Kyle and Daniel changing after 1 hour?
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Question 1154512: The "Top Thrill Dragster" at Cedar Point can reach a speed of 193 kilometers per hour. How many miles per hour is this speed? Express the answer rounded to the nearest mile per hour.
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Question 1154511: A cheetah ran 195 yards in 6 seconds. What was the cheetah’s average speed in miles per hour? Express the answer rounded to the nearest mile per hour.
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Question 1154510: A cruise ship travels at a constant rate of 37 miles per hour. How far does the cruise ship travel in 5.5 hours? (d = rt)
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Question 1154517: If you start from the Bakery, travel to the Cafe, and then to the Art Gallery, what is the magnitude of your displacement?
Art gallery ------> Bakery ----------------> Cafe (north)
2.5km 4.0km
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Question 1154536: A motorist left town A at 08 30 and reached town B at 13 00. The distance travelled was 243km. If he took a shortcut to save 13km but drove at a slower speed by 4km/h, at what time would he arrive at town B?
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Question 1154539: Linda will rent a car for the weekend. She can choose one of two plans. The first plan has an initial fee of 52 and costs an additional 0.18 per mile driven. The second plan has an initial fee of 59 and costs an additional 0.14 per mile driven.
For what amount of driving do the two plans cost the same?
For what amount of driving do the two plans cost the same?
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Question 1154565: Two buses leave a station at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One bus travels 19 km/h slower than the other. If the two buses are 1036 kilometers apart after 4 hours, what is the rate of each bus?
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Question 1154488: Suppose a company’s total weekly profit from the production of x boxes of customized
stationary can be modeled by the equation P(x) = 0.02x^2 + 21x - 1900. If production is
increasing at the rate of 10 boxes per week when production is 150 boxes, find the rate of increase (or decrease) in profit.

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Question 1154677: A car travelled along a straight road from town x to town y at 65km/h. A motorcycle travelled from town y to x at 50km/h. Both started their journeys at the same time on the same road. If the two vehicles passed each other after travelling for 1 hour 45 min, find the distance between the two towns.
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Question 1154679: At 9:30 car a started its journey at 65 km/h. At 11:00 car B started its journey and travelled at the same road as car a. If car b took 5 hours to catch up with car a find the speed of car b.
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Question 1154701: Heather is riding her bicycle. She rides 37.5 kilometers in 3 hours. What is her peed?
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Question 1154793: Hey Siri to cycle start from the same point ride in opposite directions. One cyclist rides twice as fast as the other. In. 2 h, they are 54mi apart. Find the rate of each cyclist.
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Question 1154830: a plane travels at 100km/h one way and returns at 165km/h the whole trip takes 30mins. how long does it take to on the 1st trip ( 100km/h )
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Question 1154828: A wild bird seed mix is made by combining 100lb of millet seed costing $0.60 per pound with sunflower seeds costing $1.10 per pound. How many pounds of sunflower seeds are needed to make a mixture that costs $0.70 per pound?
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Question 1154866: Carlos says that the distance from Chicago to Dallas is about 3000 km. Is he correct? Explain how you know
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Question 1154973: A vehicle uses a tablespoon of gasoline to drive 125 yards. How many miles can the vehicle travel per gallon? Round up the answer to the neares mile. (There are 256 tablespoons in a gallon)
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Question 1154974: A bus traveling at an average rate of 50 ft per hour made the trip in 6 hours. If it had traveled at 45 ft per hour, how many more minutes would it have taken to make the trip.
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Question 1155074: A boat is traveling east across a river that is 112 meters wide at 8 meters per second. If the river has a northward current of 5 meters per second, what is the resultant speed of the motorboat rounded to the nearest tenth?
1). 9.4 m/s
2). 3.0 m/s
3). 8.6 m/s
4). 13.0 m/s
This problem confused me because it is not an upstream / downstream problem. The directions, east and west, are not opposite of each other.

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Question 1155087: Find the distance between (5,2) and (-3,4)
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Question 1155181: Adam currently runs about 20 miles per week, and he wants to increase his weekly mileage by 10%. How many miles will Adam run per week?

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Question 1155202: if some one drives 845 miles i 13 hours how long would it take to drive for 455
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Question 1155256: A plane average 500 mph on a trip going east, but only 350 mph on the return trip. The total flying time in both directions was 6.8 hours. What was the one-way distance?
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Question 1155290: A driver took a day-trip driving at two different speeds. He drove 50 miles at a slower speed and 140 miles at a speed 10 miles per hour faster. If the time spent during the faster speed was twice that spent at a slower speed, find the two speeds during the trip.
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Question 1155339: A roller coaster is moving at 10 m/s at the top of a hill and 22 m/s at the bottom of the hill two seconds later. Explain how to find the average acceleration of the roller coaster, and then find the average acceleration.

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Question 1155367: 2 ferries sail from port A to port B. The first ferry departs again from port A after 4 days, while the second ferry departs after 7 days. On March 1, both ferries depart simultaneously from port A. On which date Will the ferries leave port A again at the same time in March?
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Question 1155417: A man is driving to his vacation home which is 125 miles away. The trip usually takes him 2 hours when he drives straight through. He drives at his normal speed until 40 miles into his trip when he decides to stop for 10 minutes to get some McDonald’s drive through. At what speed must he drive for the remainder of the trip to complete the trip in the usual amount of time?
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Question 1155457: Whilst rowing, Betty accelerated to 8 m/s, travelled at a steady speed and then slowed to a stop, as illustrated in the graph below.

Kate accelerated to, 14 m/s, then slowed to a stop, as shown in the graph below (not to scale).

Given that they started at the same position and that Kate reached her maximum speed at 5 seconds, find the difference in their acceleration (in m/s2).

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Question 1155499: At noon, a passenger ship and a freighter left a port traveling in opposite directions. By midnight, the passenger ship was 3 times farther from port than was the freighter. How far (in mi) was the freighter from port if the distance between the ships was 88 miles?
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Question 1155513: Emma walks to her friends hour 190 meters North. They then walk to the park 30 m S. What is Emma's total displacement?

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Question 1155513: Emma walks to her friends hour 190 meters North. They then walk to the park 30 m S. What is Emma's total displacement?

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Question 1155513: Emma walks to her friends hour 190 meters North. They then walk to the park 30 m S. What is Emma's total displacement?

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Question 1155527: two brothers leave their house at the same time. alex runs due east at a constant speed of 10km per hour, and Boris walks due south at a constant speed of 4km per hour. How far has each brother travelled after 30 minutes?

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Question 1155550: Carla walked 2.5 km in preparation for the Community Walk - a - thon. Stan walked 2900 m. How many more metres did Stan walk than Carla?
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Question 1155566: george walks 1000 ft to his friends house in 10 minutes going east what is his velocity??

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Question 1155549: Bess walked 3.4 km in preparation for the Community Walk - a - thon. Ed walked 2700 m. How many more metres did Bess walk than Ed?
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Question 1155618: Alexa makes a journey of 430km, traveling 160km by bus and 270km by car. If the car
averages 10km/h faster than the bus and the whole journey takes 5 hours, what is the
speed of the car?
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