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Question 1191721: a pair of hikers travel 0.7km on a true bearing of 240 degrees and then 1.3km on a true bearing of 300 degree. How far west have they travelled from their starting point?
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Question 1192027: 1.how long will it take Miguel to travel 15 kilometers, with a speed of 5km/hour?
2.a car traveled 88 km in 2 hours. What is the speed of the car?
3. A cruise ship travels 130km in 45 mins. What is the average speed of the cruise ship?
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Question 1192234: the speed of a boat in still water is 30 mph. It takes the same time for the boat to travel 5 miles upstream as it does to travel 10 miles downstream. Find the speed of the currrent

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Question 1192352: this intersection is four miles away from the local firehouse Due to rush hour traffic, the fire truck is only able to travel an average of 12 mph. what is the minimum amount of time it will take the fire truck to reach the car fire
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Question 1192357: A water tank can be filled in 9 hours and then drained in 12 hours. How long would it take to fill the water tank if the drain is left open?
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Question 1192380: A container ship left Hawaii and traveled north at an average speed of 5 km/h. A cruise ship left at the same time and traveled in the opposite direction with an average peed of 30 km/h. Find the number of hours the cruise ship needs to travel before the ships are 70 km apart.
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Question 1192408: A car left Melbourne For Sydney at 12:30 pm and travelled at an average speed of 80km/h. A train left Melbourne for Sydney at 2:00 on the same day and travelled at an average speed of 90km per hour. At what time will the train catch up to the car
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Question 1192458: A ship travelling at 60 kph, left the port at 7:00 P.M. and arrived in its destination at 9:00 A.M. How far did it travel?
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Question 1192441: Matthew is married and lives in Pennsylvania, which has a state income tax rate of 3.07%. He earns an annual salary of $47,530. Calculate his monthly take-home pay.
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Question 1192486: The bus left the school for the camp at 6:00AM. Fifteen minutes later, a student arrived in school and tried to chase the bus in their car. If the bus was travelling at 60kph, how fast should the car travel if they wanted to catch up with it in 30 minutes?
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Question 1192495: Two buses leave towns 484 kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One bus travels 18 km/h faster than the other. If they meet in 2 hours, what is the rate of each bus.
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Question 1192492: The bus left the school for the camp at 6:00AM. Fifteen minutes later, a student arrived in school and tried to chase the bus in their car. If the bus was traveling at 60kph, how fast should the car travel if they wanted to catch up with it in 30 minutes? Solve using algebra.

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Question 1192520: A cyclist rides her bike at a speed of 5 meters per second. What is this speed in kilometers per hour? How many kilometers will the cyclist travel in 2 hours? Do not round your answers.

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Question 1192536: An aircraft carrier, travelling at 60 mph, left a port at 7:00 A.M. At 9:00 A.M., another aircraft carrier left the same port, traveling the same route at 80 mph. At what time will the second carrier overtake the first one?
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Question 1192550: What is the smallest possible answer to the expression a exponent b+c exponent d if each of the interfere 1,2,3 and 4 maybe only be used once.
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Question 1192557: What is the smallest possible answer to the expression, a° + c", if each of the integers 1, 2, 3, and 4
may only be used once? The expression in the question is
a with exponent b + c with exponent d
hope this helps.

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Question 1192558: Label the sides of the diagrams of a rectangle and a pentagon so that the perimeter of each is 10x-5.
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Question 1192558: Label the sides of the diagrams of a rectangle and a pentagon so that the perimeter of each is 10x-5.
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Question 1192602: In going over 750 kms, it takes a passenger plane 2 hour less time to fly with a tailwind of 50 kph than against a headwind travelling at the same speed. How fast was the passenger plane flying at each way of the course?
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Question 1192624: Bus 1 leaves the bus station 2 hours after Bus 2. The rate of Bus 1 is 80kph and the rate of Bus 2 is 75kph. How may hours will it take Bus 1 to overtake Bus 2? Solve using algebra.
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Question 1192658: t takes liza 2/3 of an hour to walk from her home to her college at a rate of 6km/h. How far apart are her home and college?
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Question 1192780: Determine the cumulative distribution function for the random variable.
X -2 -1 0 1 2
f(x) 1/8 2/8 2/8 2/8 1/8
(a)P(X≤2)
(b)P(X>-2)
(c)P(-1≤X≤1)
(d)P(X≤-1 or X=2)
also determine the following probabilities:
(a)P(X≤1.15)
(b)P(X≤2.2)
(c)P(-1.1 (d)P(X>0)

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Question 1192788: Train A is 200 miles west of train B. Train A starts travelling north at a constant speed of 85 mph. Two hours later, train B starts travelling east, at 90 mph. How many miles apart are the two trains after five hours?
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Question 1192807: A ship is travelling north at a constant speed of 40 km/h. A second ship, which is initially 60 km to the east of the first ship, is travelling northwest at a speed of 50 km/h. What is the minimum distance between these two ships?
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Question 1192900: Two angles are supplementary if the sum of their measures is 180°. Find two supplementary angles such that one is 84° more than 12 of the other.
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Question 1193023: Mary can x-country ski down a hill 6 km / hour faster than she can ski up the hill. If it takes her 1.2 hours longer to ski up the hill, what is her speed going up ?
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Question 1193392: For numbers 6: Elaine shoots an arrow upward at a speed of 32 feet per second
from a bridge that is 28 feet high. The height of the arrow is given by the function h(t) =
-16t2 + 32t + 28, where t is the time in seconds.
How long would it take before the arrow reached the ground?
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Question 1193489: If a motorist travels 100km in two and half hour, what is his average speed in km per hour.
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Question 1193489: If a motorist travels 100km in two and half hour, what is his average speed in km per hour.
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Question 1193489: If a motorist travels 100km in two and half hour, what is his average speed in km per hour.
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Question 1193577: The distance between the Earth and the Moon is approximately 1,260,000,000 feet, and a rocket can travel there at a speed of about 1,540,000 ft/min. How long will it take the rocket to go to the moon and back in minutes.
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Question 1193707: From the same spot, two runners start running toward opposite directions along the same path. One was running at 5 mph and the other at 7 mph. How long will it take before they are 60 miles apart?
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Question 1193963: A baseball diamond has the shape of a square with sides 90 ft long. A player 60 ft from second base is running towards the third base at a speed of 28 ft/min. At what rate is the player’s distance from the home plate changing?
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Question 1193962: Starting from the same point, Reden starts walking eastward at 60 cm/s while Neil starts running towards the south at 80 cm/s. How fast is the distance between Reden and Neil increasing after 2 seconds?
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Question 1193953: A man traveled with a horse on Wednesday. He spent three day (i.e. 72 hrs) and he stills Friday. How would you explain this riddl
e?
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