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Question 267173: A woman rides a bicycle at 12 miles per hour. What is her speed in
yards per minute?
If light can travel 186,000 miles per second, how many miles can it
travel in one year? (Assume one year has 365.24 days.)

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Question 267480: Ramesh crosses a street 600 m long in 5 minutes. His speed in km/
hr is
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Question 267545: lois and clark leave thier office to meet clients. lois leaves at 8 am and travels at 35moh. clark leaves at 815am and travels at 40 miles an hour. they travel in opposite directions. when will they be 290 miles apart?
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Question 267543: A plane can fly 1200 miles with the wind in 3 hours, while it takes the same plane 4 hours to fly the same distance against the wind. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 267467: Two planes leave an airport 30 minutes apart. The first planes flies east and the second west. After 75 minutes the planes are 700 miles apart. How fast is each flying?
I know that S X T = D. I know that the East plane flys for 1.25hrs at x speed so its distance is 1.25x. I know that the West plane flys for .75hrs at y speed so its distance is .75x. I know that if you add the two distances together you will get 700 miles. 1.25x + .75y = 700. I just don't know where to go next. Can you help?
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Question 267614: how many liters of 20% alcohol soltuion must be mixed with 10 liters of a 50% solution to get a 30% solution?
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Question 267516: How far can a man drive out into the country at an average rate of 30 mph and return over the SAME road at the average of 50 mph, if he travels total time of 8 hours?
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Question 267613: How far can a man drive out into the country at an average rate of 30 mph and return over the same road at an average of 50 mph, if he travels a total time of 8 hours?
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Question 267665: Lucas is 1/3 mile away from home bicycling at 20 miles per hour when his brother takes off on his bike to catch up. How fast must Lucas's brother go to catch him a mile from home.
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Question 267440: Going an average of 65 mph, Bob can travel 500 miles per day. How far can he travel in a day if he increases his average speed to 75 mph? Show (explain) how you can calculate your answer without calculating the time Bob spent on the road.
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Question 267786: IF A TRUCK LEFT TRAVELING NORTH AT 80 KM/H. AND ONE HOUR LATER ANOTHER TRUCK LEFT TRAVELING SOUTH AT 60 KM/H. HOW MANY HOURS HAD THE FIRST TRUCK TRAVELED WHEN THEY WERE 150 KM APART
MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS JMONAE96@HOTMAIL.COM
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Question 267813: The sound travels in an average speed of 340m/s the lightning that comes from a cloud caused by a storm, is obseved almost inmediately. If th sound of lightning comes to our ears about 1.3 minutes after. How far is the storm?
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Question 267809: A car travels 45 km with an average speed of 10 m/s. How many seconds takes to complete the travel?
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Question 267230: how do magnets work?
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Question 267729: If Marvin runs at a speed of 16 km/h, how far will he travel in 45 minutes? in km
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Question 268082: In 2005 a planet was found revolving about a distant sunlike star in 4.55days. The radius of it's orbit is 2,500,000 mi. What is it's linear velocity (in mi/hr) about it's star? Round to the nearest thousandth as needed.
I am stuck on this please help me? Thank you!
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Question 268067: Two cars leave an intersection. One car travels east; the other north. when the car traveling east had gone 15 miles, the distance between the cars was 5 miles more than the distance traveled by the car heading north. How far had the northbound car traveled?
Thank you for your help. I am stumped on how to set up this problem for solving.
Thank you, Nora
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Question 268114: How many seconds does it take a car travelling 75miles per hour to travel 350.0cm?

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Question 268137: Can you please help me with this story problem.
Two cars start from the same place and travel in the same direction. If one car travels at 60 miles per hour and the other travels at 45 miles per hour in how many hours will they be 60 miles apart?
Thank you for your help.
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Question 268141: Two buses leave the same city at the same time moving in opposite directions. One travels at a rate of 5 miles per hour faster than the other. After 3 hours they are 375 miles apart. How far did each bus travel?

Thank you.... Your time and help if appreciated a lot!!
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Question 268162: How do I set up and solve this problem? Linda drove from Philadelphia to NYC at the rate of 50 miles per hour. She made the trip from NYC to Philadelphia at the rate of 40 miles per hour. She drove the same route both ways. Her total driving time was 3.6 hours. Find the number of hours she drove from Philadelphia to NYC. Hint: Let x be the number of hours from Philadelphia to NYC.
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Question 268230: on a map 1 inch represents 20 miles. the distance between 2 towns is 6 1/5. how many miles are actually between the two towns?
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Question 268325: With the wind a jet can fly 2500km in 2 hours 30 min. Against the wind, it can fly only 2000km in the same time. Find the rate of the jet in still air and the rate of the wind.

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Question 268334: a train running at 25mph increases its speed 12.5% how fast does it then go?
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Question 268430: if it takes a man 12 minutes to travel 7 miles how fast was he driving at one speed
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Question 268456: If I am driving 55mph, how long would it take for me to travel 5 miles? or ten miles? how is the calculation done?
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Question 268456: If I am driving 55mph, how long would it take for me to travel 5 miles? or ten miles? how is the calculation done?
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Question 268456: If I am driving 55mph, how long would it take for me to travel 5 miles? or ten miles? how is the calculation done?
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Question 268135: Alice borrowed a bicycle from her friend, Bob, and wanted to return it. She rode the bicycle from her house to Bob's house at 7 miles per hour. She jogged back home from Bob's house to her house at a pace of 5 miles per hour. It took Alice 36 minutes (i.e., 3/5 hour) total travel time to make her round trip.
(a) How long (in minutes) did each leg of Alice�s trip take? That is, how long did it take Alice to travel to Bob�s house? How long did it take Alice to travel home from Bob�s house?
(b) What is the distance between Alice's and Bob's houses?

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Question 268526: If an object is propelled upward from ground level with an initial velocity of 224 feet per second, its height h in feet t seconds later is given by the equation h-224t - 16t^2. After how many seconds does the object hit the ground?
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Question 268567: A speeding car has the equation d2=-2t^2+d1, where d2 is the distance from the concrete barrier at the time (t) and d1 is the original distance of the speeding car from the concrete barrier. If the speeding car is 50 yards from the concrete barrier originally, how many seconds before it hits the concrete barrier? When the car hits the concrete barrier, the distance (d2) is 0.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Tina
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Question 268575: Two cyclists start biking from a trail's start 3 hours apart. The second cyclist travels at 10 miles per hour and starts 3 hours after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6 miles per hour. How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with the first from the time the second cyclist started biking?
t=d/s
I know the answer is 4.5 hours but am having problems setting up the equations.

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Question 268553: The President of a company traveled 1600 miles by jet and 400 miles on a prop plane. The rate of the jet is four times the rate of the prop plane. The entire trip took 10 hours. Find the rate of the jet plane. ___mph
I tried 1600/4x+ 400/x = 10 hours and my answers was 160 mph which apparently is wrong How would I set this up to get the correct answer. I am an online student and this answer is due by 10 p.m. 2-11-2010
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Question 268577: Jim can fill a pool carrying buckets of water in 30 minutes. Sue can do the same job in 45 minutes. Tony can do the same job in 1 � hours. How quickly can all three fill the pool together? (answer in minutes) Please show steps
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Question 268610: I walked 5,730 steps with each step I took. how many miles did I walk?
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Question 268538: Two bicyclists who live 10 miles apart on the same road travel the exact same route every Sunday morning. Roberta's speed is 11 mph and Jeff's speed is 15 mph. They both leave at 8 AM and they meet at the same location for a cup of coffee. How far have they biked and what time is it when they meet for coffee?
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Question 268591: the trip is 80 miles long, 40 miles out and 40 miles back. If the bus travels at a speed of 50 mph on the way out and 30 mph on the wat back. How many minutes will the class be on the bus?
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Question 268677: After 2000 revolutions, how many miles has a 16 inch (total Diameter)circle
traveled ?
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Question 268701: A car A left city X traveling 60 mph.2 hours later a car B leaves City X, traveling the same road at 70 mph. When will car B reach car A? How far will each car have traveled?
I really need help putting this into an equation then I will be able to solve it myself.
Thanks!
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Question 268621: An air rescue plane averages 300 miles per hour in still air. It carries enough fuel for 5 hours of flying time. If, upon takeoff it encounters a head wind of 30 mi/hr and the wind remains constant, how far can the plane fly and then return safely?
Is the rate simply 300-30? How do I find the distance traveled?
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Question 268596: Action Man was eating in a diner when his super-powered ears heard someone 2 miles away yelling for help. He rushed outside and ran to the man (named ED) who had fallen from a tree. Six minutes after he arrived, an ambulance pulled up that had driven 12 miles to the scene. If the ambulance drove 3 times as fast as Action Man ran, how long did it take Action Man to get to Ed?
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