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Question 243379: Leaving home traveling to work which is 10 miles away driving at 40 mile per hour how long will it take to get to work?
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Question 243381: A plane travel 100 kph faster than a train the plane covers 500 km in the same time that train coves 300 km find the speed of each one?
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Question 243386: A car travels 120 km from A to B at 30 km per hour but returns the same distance at 40 km per hour. The average speed for the round trip is closest to
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Question 243397: Three people run a mile. The first person runs the mile in seven minutes. The second person takes 5/4 as long as the first person. How many minutes did it take the third person to run the mile if the average for all three people is eight minutes?
A. 8 B. 8.25 C. 8.5 D. 9 E. 11.4
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Question 243391: Train A is traveling at 60 mph and train B is traveling 80 mph. Train A passes a station at 9:10 pm. If train B passes the same station at 9:25 pm, at that time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 243576: a motorboat took 2 hours to make a downstream trip with a 5mph current. The return trip against the same current took 4 hours. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
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Question 243664: frank can row 30 miles down stream in 2 hours and 12 miles upstream in 3 hours. what is the rate he rows in still water and the rate of the current
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Question 243761: How long would it take a jet flying Mach 2.3 or approx. 1,800 mph--to travel 15 miles?
Thanks for your help
John Davis
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Question 243849: a girl ran 41 miles with the wind at her back and then ran 39 miles in the same amount of time with the wind against her. if her pace without any wind is 8 miles/hr, how fast is the wind?
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Question 243919: Judy can bike at 12 mph when there is no wind. Against the wind Judy bikes 8 mph in the same time it takes to bike 14 miles in the wind. Determine the speed
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Question 243615: Two cars leave a city at noon. One car travels north and the other travels east. Suppose the borthbound car is traveling at 60 mph, and the eastbound is traveling at 50 mph. Make a table to show the distance between the 2 cars at 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours and "n" hours. Then, suppose that the northbound car is traveling at 40 mph and after 2 hours, the two cars are 100 miles apart. How fast is the other car going?
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Question 243990: A person runs 3 miles and walks 2 miles. He runs twice as fast as he walks and finishes in exactly one hour. How fast does he walk.
I am completely lost and not sure why. The book gives simply the answer, 3.5 mph. I have:
r = d/t
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Question 244061: A man has eight minutes to catch a train. The train station is 4 miles away. If he travels the first two miles at 20 mph, how fast will he have to drive for the remaining distance?
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Question 244059: I hope you can help
A car travels 180 miles. A second car, traveling 15 m/h faster than the first car, makes the same trip in 1 hour less time. Find the speed of each car.
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Question 244155: The question is:

"You are traveling on the highway at an average speed of 55 miles per hour. How long will it take you to drive 66 miles?"
I really don't know how to attempt how to do this.
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Question 244181: Morgan ran around a school track in 89 seconds. Taylor ran in 1.32 seconds. Who completed the laps faster and by how much?
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Question 244225: You jog at a speed of 6 miles per hour for 20 minutes, and you
walk at a speed of 4 miles per hour for t minutes. If your combined
jogging and walking distance is 3 miles, for how long did you walk?
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Question 244230: A plane left at 3pm flying west at 450 miles per hour. At 3:30 pm another plane left the same airport flying west at 500 miles per hour. At what time did the second plane overtake the first plane?
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Question 244775: If it takes Maria 30 seconds to travel 90 miles, what is her speed in miles/second?
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Question 244773: If it takes Maria 60 minutes to travel 60 miles,what is her speed in miles/hours?
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Question 244773: If it takes Maria 60 minutes to travel 60 miles,what is her speed in miles/hours?
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Question 244781: Car A and Car B are traveling at 45 mph and 60 mph,respectively.If Car A leaves a depot 40 minutes earlier than Car B,how long will it take Car B to overtake Car A if they both follow the same route?
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Question 244901: at maxium speed,an airplane travels 2100 miles against the wind in 6 hours. Flying with the wind, the plane can travel the same distance in 4 hours.
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Question 244975: A freight train travels 1 mile in 45 seconds. At this rate, how many miles will the train travel in 1 hour?

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Question 245059: How many hours will it take to travel 2400 miles at 60 mph?

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Question 245019: If a jet plane travels 1800 km in 2.5 hours, at this rate how long would it take to travel 2000 km?
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Question 245314: Kay rode his bike from his home to Daniels and walked back home. The total travel time was 45 minutes. If Kay average 20 mph on the bike and 4 mph walking, how far does Daniel live from Kay.
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Question 245414: How mnay hours will it take on a plane to travell 3,000 miles?
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Question 245506: A motorboat travels upstream in five hours and makes the return trip downstream in three hours. If the rate of the stream's current is ten kilometers per hour, find the rate of the boat in still water.
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Question 245700: A car travels at an average if 60 mph for 3 3/4 hours. How far does it travel in this time?
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Question 245710: can you please help me with this word problem:
two motorist set out at the same time to go from A to B, a distance of 100 miles. they both followed the same route and traveled at different, though uniform, speeds of an integral number of miles per hour. the difference in their speeds was a prime number of miles per hour, and after they had been driving for two hours, the distance of the slower car from A was five times that of the faster car from B. how fast did the two motorist drive?
thank you.
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Question 245912: Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parellel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40 miles per hour and train B is traveling at 48 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 11:25pm. If train B passes the same station at 11:55pm, at what time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 245915: driving at 65miles per hour how long will it take to drive 310 miles
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Question 245915: driving at 65miles per hour how long will it take to drive 310 miles
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Question 245998: A carpenter is building a rectangular room with a fixed perimeter of 240 ft. What dimensions would yeild the maximum area? what is the maximum area?
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Question 246029: Differential calculus: Two automobiles start from point A at the same time.one travels west at 60mph and the other travels north at 35 mph. how fast is the distance between them changing 3 hours later.
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Question 246074: If a car travel 120km/hr then how much actual distance it will cover in one hour .
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Question 246090: trains a and b are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. train a is traveling at 40mph and train b is traveling AT 48mph. train a passes a station at 3:20am, train b passes the same station at 3:35am, at what time will train b catch up to train a?
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Question 246075: If a car travel 120km/hr then how much actual distance it will cover in one hour .
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