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Question 266074: Straight from text: A boat moves 15.0 km across a lake in 45.0 minutes. What was the average speed of the boat in km/hr?
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Question 266074: Straight from text: A boat moves 15.0 km across a lake in 45.0 minutes. What was the average speed of the boat in km/hr?
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Question 266146: A freight train leaves a station at 7 A.M and travels North at 40 mph. At 5 A.M, a passanger train leaves on a parallel track and travels North at 80 mph. How long will it take the passanger train to overtake the freigh train?
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Question 266273: a ball is tossed int the air from a height of 12ft at 16ft per sec, how long does it take to reach the earth?
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Question 266264: Two planes start at the same place and travel at different rates in opposite directions. Two hours later the planes are 1,800 miles apart. Express the distance traveled by the slower plane in terms of the distance traveled by the faster plane.
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Question 266295: sue can ride bike 14 km/h faster than she can walk
it takes 17.5 min longer to walk 2.5 km than to ride. find sue's walking speed
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Question 266443: A ball is thrown upward with an intial velocity of 48foot/second from a height of 640ft. H=-16t^2+48t+640. After how many seconds will the ball hit the ground? (i.e. for what positive value of t is h=0?)
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Question 266444: How many revolutions will a car wheel of diameter 28 inches make as the car travels a distance of two miles?
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Question 266450: A truck travels for 4 hours at an average speed of 42 miles per hour. How much longer must the truck travel at an average speed of 55 miles per hour so that the average speed for the total trip is 50 miles per hour.
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Question 266452: In a pen at Old MacDonald's farm there are some sheep and some geese. There is a total of 115 animals and there are 424 legs. How many sheep and how many geese are there?
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Question 266456: how many inches are in 4 1/2 feet?
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Question 266456: how many inches are in 4 1/2 feet?
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Question 266541: It took 4.5 hours to drive to her mother's house. On her trip on Sunday , it took 5 hours. Her average speed on Sunday was 4mph slower than on Saturday. What was her average speed on Sunday?
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Question 266376: 2 boats (B1 and B2) start off at opposite ends of a lake heading for the staring point of the other. They pass each other 800 yards from the starting point of boat 1. They continue to the starting point of the other boat, turn around and return. This time they pass each other 300 yards from the starting point of boat 2. How wide is the lake? (Assume each boat travels at a fixed rate and ignore turn around times.)
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Question 266606: you and a friend are taking a trip. your friend, starts 30 minutes before you and travels 50 mph. you travel 60 mph. how long does it take you to catch up? how far have you gone?
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Question 266580: train a and b is travelling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is travelling at 40 miles per hour and train B is travelling at 48 miles per hour. Train A is passes the station at 6:25 A.M. If train B passes the station at 6:55A.M. at what time will train b catch up to train a.
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Question 266706: Two seconds after firing a rifle at a target, the shooter hears the impact of the bullet. Sound travels at 1100 feet per second and the bullet travels at 1865 feet per second. Determine the distance to the target (to the nearest foot).
I can't figure out how to set up this problem. I'm guessing I need the formula rate*time=distance but other than that, I'm stuck.
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Question 266754: A train traveling at 50 miles per hour leaves for a certain town. Two hours
later, a bus (starting at the same point as the train) traveling at 60 miles
per hour leaves for the same town and arrives at the same time as the train.
If both the train and the bus traveled in a straight line, how far is the town
from where they started?
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Question 266766: A train leaves New York for Boston, 200 miles away, at 4:00 P.M. and averages 60 mph. Another train leaves Boston for New York on an adjacent set of tracks at 3:00 P.M. and averages 50 mph. At what time will the trains meet? (Round to the nearest minute.)
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Question 266778: Mark swims at a speed of 5.8 mph in still water. The river he's in flows at a speed of 3.7 mph. How long will it take Mark to swim 2.2 mi downstream? Round our answer to the nearest tenth of an hour, if necessary.
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Question 266896: You travel at a constant rate of 55 mph. How far do you travel in 3.6 hours? in 7.5 mph?
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Question 266849: If a car traveled one mile in 60 seconds, how fast was it traveling?

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Question 266849: If a car traveled one mile in 60 seconds, how fast was it traveling?

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Question 266937: what is a formula to find the speed of a boat in still water traveling at 25km/h downstream?
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Question 266957: between reno and battle moutain nevada on interstate 80e it took me 2 min to
pass a westbound train doing 50 mph while i was doing 70 mph. how long was the train (to the nearest tenth mile)?
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Question 267119: it took 3 hours to row a boat 18 km against the current. The return trip with the current took 1 1/2 hours. find the speed of the plane in still air.
I know d = r x t, but I am stuck on how to get the still air. I know to make both equations = to 18, but help.
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Question 267113: a car traveled 100 kilometers in 2 hours. what is the average speed of the car traveled?
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Question 267127: How many feet will a vehicle travel in 1 1/2 minutes traveling at 5MPH?
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Question 267027: A B747 aircraft flew 6 hours w/wind speed return trip took 7 hours aginst wind if the speed of the plane in air is 13 times speed of wind find the wind speed and the speed of the plane in still air solve by substition or eliminamation
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Question 267091: If you drove to Austin at 70 miles per hour and returned at 50 miles per hour. What is the distance driven to Austin if total driving time was 7.2 hours?

I've tried;
D (distance)=R (rate/MPH)*T (time)
D=R*T
D=70+50*7.2
D=864
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Question 267131: A man travels from Town X to Town Y at an average rate of 50 mph and returns at an average rate of 40 mph. He takes 1/2 hr longer than he would if he made the round trip at an average of 45 mph. What is the distance from Town X to Town Y?
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Question 267080: A bus traveled on a level road for 3 hrs at an average speed of 20 mph faster than it traveled on a winding road. The time spent on the winding road was 4 hrs, find the average speed on the level road if the entire trip was 305 miles.
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Question 266995: When Caitlin starts running towards Asha, Asha is 100 meters from Caitlin. As Caitlin runs, Asha moves directly away from Caitlin at one-third of Caitlin�s speed. How far has Caitlin run when she first catches up to Asha?

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Question 267169: if you travel 50 meters in 25 seconds, what is your average speed and distance traveled?

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Question 267221: A car traveled 100 kilomters in 2 hours. What is the average speed the car traveled? show your work.
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Question 267210: a car traveled 100 kilometers in 2 hours. what is the average speed the car traveled? show your work.
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Question 267267: If I am traveling 47miles per hour how fast am i traveling per second?
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Question 267267: If I am traveling 47miles per hour how fast am i traveling per second?
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Question 267297: If a family biked 18 kilometers in 3 hours, what was their average speed in kilometers per hour?
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Question 267333: Traveling against the current, the scouts paddled 20 km in 6hrs. The return trip with the current took 1hr. less. Find the scout's rate of paddling in still water, and the rate of the current.
Please and Thank you.
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Question 267294: What distance would you travel if your speed is 35Mph for 20 seconds?
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Question 267466: how long would it take to mow a 16 mile long stretch going 6mph...
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