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Question 1184139: At the same starting point, Margeorie and Paula decided to run in opposite directions. Margeorie runs at a speed of 15 kph due west while Paula runs at a speed of 12 kph due east. How long will it take
for them to be 135 km apart?
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Question 1184177: Last week, Christine drove 285 miles. This week, she drove k miles. Using k, write an expression for the total number of miles she drove in the two weeks.
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Question 1184335: Jacob left the movie theater and traveled toward the lake an average speed of 50 Km/h. Jenny left sometime later after traveling in the opposite direction with an average speed up 70 km/h. After Jacob had traveled for six hours they were 440 km apart how long did Jenny travel
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Question 1184339: Two cars traveling toward eachother are 250 miles apart. Car A is traveling 35 miles per hour faster than car B. The cars pass after 2 hours. How fast is each car traveling?
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Question 1184351: Find the time it takes to travel 30km for a bus which accelerates uniformly from 40km/hr to 80km/hr. Show your solution.
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Question 1184351: Find the time it takes to travel 30km for a bus which accelerates uniformly from 40km/hr to 80km/hr. Show your solution.
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Question 1184369: A car whose speed is 40 km/hr rounds a curve whose radius is 100m. What is its acceleration?
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Question 1184370: Determine the centripetal force acting upon a 40-kg child who makes 10 revolutions around the cliffhanger in 29.3 seconds. The radius of the barrel is 2.90 meters. Show your solution.
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Question 1184386: Mae is on top of the building and Jea is down. If Mae throws a ball at an angle of 60 degrees and with initial velocity of 20 m/s at what height will the ball reach after 2s? Consider the motion along the Y-direction. Show your solution.
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Question 1184485: a new machine that deposits cement for a road requires 12 hours to complete one-half mile section of the road.an older machine requires 16 hours to pave the same amount of road. after depositing cement for 4 hours, the new machine develops mechanical problem and quits working. the older machine is brought into place and continues the job.how long in hours does it take the older machine to complete the job?
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Question 1184505: Two planes fly in opposite directions. One travels 550 mi/h and the other 450 mi/h. How long will it take before they are 3,000 mi apart?
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Question 1184521: Please help me solve this question.
John leaves his house at 7:00 am. His sister, Mary leaves the house at 8:30 am and tries to catch up with John. She is walking 2 km/h faster than him on the same route in the same direction. If they both kept in the same route, Mary could reach John 3 hours after she left. Find John and Mary’s speed.
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Question 1184529: Kim and tom both cyclic to work from their homes, at the same speed. kim lives 20km away from work, and tom lives only 15km away from work. it takes kim 1 hour more to cycle to work than tom. determine how long tom takes to get to work
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Question 1184636: a bus takes 3.6 hours to drive from airdrie to west edmonton mall going 85km/h. how far was the drive
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Question 1184636: a bus takes 3.6 hours to drive from airdrie to west edmonton mall going 85km/h. how far was the drive
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Question 1184640: Billy rides his bike to his friends house 3km away, and it takes him 10 minutes. After he heads back home and stops half way (both half the distance and half the time) to take a rest.
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Question 1184718: Kim the mall and traveled toward the lake at an average speed of 25 mph. Daniel left sometime later traveling in the opposite direction with an average speed of 30 mph . After Kim had traveled for two hours they were 110 mi. apart . How long did Daniel travel ?
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Question 1184721: A car travels 20 kilometers faster than a truck per hour. The car covers 350 kilometers in two hours less than the time it takes the truck to travel the same distance. What is the speed of the car and the truck?

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Question 1184770: Maria drove a total of
301.5
miles in two legs of a trip. In the first part of her trip, she drove at a constant speed for
2.5
hours. In the second part of her trip, she drove
4
miles per hour slower, and drove for
3
hours. How fast was Maria driving in each leg of the trip?

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Question 1184794: Two buses leave towns 1065 kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One bus travels 17 km/h faster than the other. If they meet in 5 hours, what is the rate of each bus?
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Question 1184930: A gazelle is running in a straight line along the x-axis. The graph in the figure shows this animal’s velocity as a function of time. During the first 12.0 s
Here's the graph
https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/carnegie-mellon-university/physics-i-for-engineering-students/week-2-homework-solutions/3574016
i don't understand how did they got the displacement can someone explain it to me thank you
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Question 1184990: If a boat travels upstream from point A to point B in 2 ½ hours and returns downstream from point B to point A in 2 hours, find the speed of the boat (on its speedometer) if the current is 3 miles per hour.

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Question 1184993: Describe the motion of a car with an acceleration of - 2 m/s2.

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Question 1185024: A train leaves Little Rock, Arkansas, and travels north at 80 kilometers per hour. Another train leaves at the same time and travels south at 80 kilometers per hour. How long will it take before they are 640 kilometers apart?

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Question 1185078: A train leaves Little Rock, Arkansas, and travels north at 60 kilometers per hour. Another train leaves at the same time and travels south at kilometers per hour. How long will it take before they are 230 kilometers apart?
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Question 1185099: A jeepney route measures 20 km. If the jeep goes faster by 5 km/h, the entire trip (outgoing and return trip)
is shorter by 30 minutes. Calculate the jeep’s original speed.

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Question 1185094: An airplane flying with the wind takes 2 hours to travel a distance of 420 miles. The return trip takes 3 hours flying against the wind. What is the speed of the airplane in still air and how fast is the wind blowing?
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Question 1185103: George walks to a friend’s house. He walked 750 meters North, then realized he walked too far. He turns around and walks 250 meters
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Question 1185095: A boat travels between two cities that are 11 miles apart. When going downstream, with the current, the trip takes 11/17 hour(s). Returning upstream, against the current, the boat covers the same distance in 11/15
hour(s).
What is the current of the river?
What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 1185116: Please help me solve this equation: Suppose a car travels at a constant rate of 70 kph for 2 hours and travels 55 kph thereafter. Show that distance travelled is a function of time and find the rule of the
function

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Question 1185119: Monica just got a new car and she wants to ride it to the top of a mountain and visit a lookout point. if she drives 4000 meters along a road that is inclined 22 degrees to the horizontal, how high above her starting point is she when she arrives at the lookout?
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Question 1185182: This question is pretty simple but i honestly don't understand it.
A runner leaves his house at 7:45 for a morning run. If he travels at an average speed of 6 mph and gets back
home at 10:00, how many miles did he run?
please can someone explain to me in depth how to get my answer and where the numbers are coming from. thank you
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Question 1185187: Stephen is 99 years old. Maggie is 39 years old. How many years ago was Stephen's age 5 times Maggie's age?
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Question 1185177: Manuel is 25 years younger than Kayla. 8 years ago, Kayla's age was 2 times Manuel's age. How old is Manuel now?
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Question 1185176: Amy is 288 miles away from Mackenzie. They are traveling towards each other. If Mackenzie travels 8 mph faster than Amy and they meet after 9 hours, how fast was each traveling?
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