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Question 250209: How far can a plane travel if it flies at a rate of 190 miles per hour for 5 hours?
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Question 250181: An ultra light aircraft flies to a nearby town that is 20 miles away in 2/5 hour with a tail wind. It can fly back home again when fighting a head wind in 1/2 hour. Find the air speed of the ultra light aircraft and the wind speed.
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Question 249891: Tom traveled 240 miles east. For most of the trip he averaged 60 mph, but for one period of time he was slowed to 20 mph due to an accident. If the total time of travel was 8 hours, how many miles was he at the reduced speed?
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Question 250358: There are sparrows and pigeons on a fence. When five sparrows leave, there remain two pigeons for every sparrow. Then twenty-five pigeons leave, and there are now three sparrows for every pigeon. Find the original number of sparrows.
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Question 250355: An Amtrak train leaves Penn Station, NYC, traveling south at 60mph. Three hours later, a Metroliner leaves the same station traveling south at 80mph. How long will it take the Metroliner to catch up to the Amtrak train.
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Question 250394: A plane makes the trip from Acton to Banville at 800km/h. The return, at 1000 km/h takes 1/2 h less than the initial flight. Find the distance between the towns.
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Question 250351: Two cars leave Newark at the same time traveling in opposite directions. After 3 hours, the two cars are 330 miles apart. If one car average 60mph, what is the distance traveled by each car?
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Question 250338: John flies from georgia to california. it takes him 5.6 hours to travel 2100 miles against the head wind. at thesame time debby flies form california to georgia. her plane travels with the same average airspeed but her flight only take 4.8 hours. find the windspeed and write a system and solve to find airspeed
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Question 250414: how far can a plane travel if it flies 800km/hr for a hour
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Question 250435: A plane travels east at 210mph. Thirty minutes later, a second plane leaves the same airport traveling west at 160mph. Write and solve an equation to determine when the planes will be 660 miles apart.
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Question 250540: Shannon and Suzanne average 68 miles per hour on a 390 mile automobile drive. They start driving at 8:40 am. Rounded to the nearest minute, when do they complete their drive?
A.2:14 pm B.2:24 pm C.2:40 pm D.2:41 pm E.3:14 pm

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Question 250493: Lois rides her bike to visit a friend. She travels at 10 mi/h. While she's there, it starts to rain. her friend drives her home in a car traveling 25 mi/h. It takes Lois 1.5 h longer to go to her friend's house than int does to return home. How many hours did it take to ride to her friend's house?
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Question 250523: A driver who drive at a speed of r mph for T hr will travel a distance d mi given by D=RT mi. How far will a driver travel at a speed of 56 mph for 5 hr?
I am kind of lost
D=56x5???
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Question 250621: An airplane travels 2050 miles in the same time that a car travels 260 miles. If the rate of the plane is 358 miles per hour faster than the rate of the car, find the rate of each?
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Question 250641: a family is planning a 100 mile trip.if they travel at an average of 50 mph, what would be their travel time?
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Question 250709: if a train travels 60 mph for 20 minutes, how many miles have they gone?
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Question 250709: if a train travels 60 mph for 20 minutes, how many miles have they gone?
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Question 250724: arah traveled a total of 1800 km. She covered 65% by plane, and another 20% by train and the remaining distance by road. How many kilometers did she cover by each mode of transport?
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Question 250663: Carla take a trip from town A to town B. She drives to town B at a rate of 55 miles per hour. She then takes a plane, which travels at a rate of 175 miles per hour back to town A, if the total traveling time is 10 hours, to the nearest mile, what is the distance between the two towns?
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Question 250762: If 1/4 represents 40% of a number, what is the value of that original number?
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Question 250762: If 1/4 represents 40% of a number, what is the value of that original number?
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Question 250760: A shop sells compact disks for $16 per piece. If the disks cost $10 to the shop owner how much profit percent does the shop owner earn?
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Question 250514: A ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity of 64 ft/sec from a height of 960 ft. It's height h, in feet, after t seconds is given by h(t)= -16t^2+64t + 960. After how long will the ball reach the ground?
The ball will reach the ground in __ seconds.
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Question 250764: A power utility generates 2000 mega watts of power and sends it to over transmissions lines. About 140 mega watts of power is lost on the way. what percentage of the generated power reaches its destination?
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Question 250759: A store offers a discount of 15% on all items sold. A shopper pays $350 for purchases made. What is the marked price of the goods purchased?
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Question 250774: A driver who drive at a speed of r mph for T hr will travel a distance d mi given by D=RT mi. How far will a driver travel at a speed of 56 mph for 5 hr?
I am kind of lost
D=56x5???
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Question 250816: Jim is driving at 50 miles per hour. how far will he travel in 15 minutes?
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Question 250787: you drive to the store at 20 mph and return by the same route at 30 mph. Discounting the time spent at the store, what was your average speed?
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Question 250928: In 1998, the population of a given country was 37 million, and the exponential growth rate was 5% per year. Find the exponential growth function.
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Question 250968: after diving 97 m below the sea level, a diver rises at a rate of 3 meters per minute for 8 min. where is the diver in relation to the surface?
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Question 250967: A submarine at a depth of 2830 ft ascends to a depth of 559. How fare did the submarine ascend?
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Question 250969: USE multiplying by 1 to find and expression
equivalent to 15/17 with a denominator of 136a.
If I multiply by 1 would it still not be 15/17??? So I am confused???
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Question 250990: a car takes 11 hours to go 660 miles. what is its rate of speed in miles per hour?
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Question 250998: While hiking the Peralta Trail to Wheeler�s Needle and back, Rick spent 60% of his time walking uphill to Wheeler�s Needle and 40% of his time returning by the same trail. If he averaged 2 miles per hour uphill, what was his average speed for the round-trip?
A. 2 1/3 mph B. 2.25 mph C. 2.4 mph D. 2.5 mph E. 2.6 mph

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Question 250940: I drive 60 miles in 48 minutes and 10 miles at 35 miles per hour. What is my average speed and what is my average acceleration?

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Question 251115: a man made a trip of 275 miles in 8 hours. before noon, he averaged 40mph , and after noon he averaged 25 pmh. at what time did he begin his trip ?
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Question 251117: a train leaves the city heading west and travels at 50 miles per hour. Three hours later, a second train leaves from the same place and travels in the same diresction at 65 miles per hour. How long will it take for the second train to overtake the first train?
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Question 251118: The soccer player ran at a speed of 350 meters per second. How fast did he run?
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Question 251134: A plane can travel 300 mph with wind and 230 mph against wind. What is speed of the wind and speed of the plane in still air?
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Question 251329: if a car travels 165 miles in 3 hours how many miles does it travel x hours?
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Question 251327: Sandy can swim 1 mile upstream in 20 minutes. She can swim the same distance downstream in 9 minutes. Find the speed of the current and of Sandy if both stay constant.
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Question 251299: A man travels from A to B at average speed of 30 miles per hour and returns from B to A along the same route at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. Find the average speed of the entire journey.
Find out the average speed of person who rides the first mile at the rate of 8 miles an hour, the next mile at the rate of 7.5 miles an hour and the third mile at the rate of 5.5 miles an hour.
A bus traveling200 kilometer has 10 stages at equal intervals. The speed of the bus in the various stages was observed to be 10,15,20,25,20,30,40,50,30,40 kilometers per hour. Find the average speed at which the bus travels.
Find out the average rate of (i) motion in the case of a person who rides the first mile at the rate of 10 miles an hour, the next mile at the rate of 8 miles per hour and the third mile at the rate of 6 miles per hour;(ii) increase in population which in the first decade has increased 20% in the next 25% and in the third 44%

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Question 251357: On Monday, Chuck drove from Norfolk to Valentine, averaging 47 mph. On Tuesday, he continued on to Chadron, averaging 69 mph. his driving time on Monday was 2 hours longer than his driving time on Tuesday. If the total distance from Norfolk to Chadron is 326 miles, then how many hours did he drive on Monday? How far is it from Valentine to Chadron?

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