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Question 268597: The ambulance got a flat tire, so Action Man had to take Ed to the hospital. Action Man ran 22 mph, and Ed's dog followed behind, running 11 mph. If the dog took 7.5 minutes longer than Action Man to get there, how far away was the hospital?
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Question 268776: At 7am a train left the station heading directly north at 50 miles per hour. At 9am a bus left the same station heading directly south at 60 miles per hour. At what time will the bus & the train be exactly 650 miles apart?
I have tried to use the formula distance=rate x time but it doesn't seem to be correct.
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Question 268897: Cowling�s rule. Cowling�s rule is another method for
determining the dosage of a drug to prescribe to a child.
For this rule, the formula
d=D(a+1)
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gives the child�s dosage d, where D is the adult dosage
and a is the age of the child in years. If the adult dosage
of a drug is 600 milligrams and a doctor uses this
formula to determine that a child�s dosage is
200 milligrams, then how old is the child?

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Question 268908: The perimeter of a rectangle is 36 inches. the length exceeds the width by 4 inches. what is the length and width
length =
width =
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Question 268909: On Saturday morning, Lynn walked for 2 hours and then ran for 30 minutes. If she ran twice as fast as she walked and she covered 12 miles altogether, then how fast did she walk?
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Question 268946: Eruca hiked up a mountain trail at 3 km/hr and returned home at 4 km/hr. The entire trip took 5 hrs and 10 minutes. How long was the trail?
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Question 268920: soybean meal is 16% protein: conrmeal is 8% protein. How many pounds of each should be mixed together in order to get 320-lb mixture that is 15% protein
pound of corn meal=
pound of soybean meal=
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Question 268960: I throw a ball inot the air in a movie theater. I throw it up with an initial velocity of 64 feet/scecond froam a balcony 10 feet high. The ceiling of the theater is 58 feet high. When will the ball hit the ceiling/
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Question 268968: At midnight car A is travling norht at 60 mph and is located 40 miles south of car B. Car B is travling West at 70 mph. Approximate the distance between the cars at 1:15 AM to the nearest tenth of a mile.
I am not sure how to set this one up. I think its a right triangle however, only the hypotenuse is given if it is. All i was able to get is this:
Rate Time Distance
CarA 60 1.15 (not sure)
CarB 70 1.15 (not sure)
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Question 268976: A boat travels slong a river with a current of 2 miles per hour. If the boat travels 30 miles up river and then returns the same distance in a total time of eight hours, what is the boat's speed in still water?
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Question 268977: At 5:00 am a train leave a station and travels at a rate of 35 mph. At 7:00 am a second train leaves the same station on the same track and travels in the direction of the first train at a speed of 45 mph. At 8:00am how many miles separate the two trains
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Question 268910: High-risk funds. Of the $50,000 that Natasha pocketed
on her last real estate deal, $20,000 went to charity. She
invested part of the remainder in Dreyfus New Leaders Fund
with an annual yield of 16% and the rest in Templeton
Growth Fund with an annual yield of 25%. If she made
$6060 on these investments in 1 year, then how much did she
invest in each fund?
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Question 268766: sherie rides her bike at 5 miles per hour. her sister leaves 15 minutes later cycling 8 miles per hour. long will it take her sister to catch up to sherie?
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Question 268891: On Saturday morning, Lynn walked for 2 hours and then ran for 30 minutes. If she ran twice as fast as she walked and she covered 12 miles altogether,then how fast did she walk?
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Question 269012: How long would it take to go 3 miles while traveling at 70 mph?
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Question 269012: How long would it take to go 3 miles while traveling at 70 mph?
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Question 269070: Write the equation of each line. Give the answer in standard
form using only integers as the coefficients.
The line through (3, 4) that is parallel to the line 5x + 3y = 9.
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Question 269069: Write the equation of each line. Give the answer in slope intercept
form.
The line through (-1, -2) with slope 3/7.
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Question 269080: a local hair salon receives a shipment of 84 bottles of hair conditioner to use and sell to customers. The two types of conditioners received are type A, which is used for straight hair, and type B which is used for curly hair. Type A costs $6.50 per bottle and type B cocsts $8.25 per bottle. The salon paid a total of $588 for the conditioner. How many of each type of conditioner did the local salon buy?
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Question 269076: In one week, a music store sold 9 guitars for a total of $3611. Electric guitars sold for $479 each and acoustic guitars sold for $339 each. How many of each type of guitar were sold?
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Question 269058: Carel left the airport and drove toward the capital at an average speed of 52km/h. Some time later Mei left driving in the same direction but at am average speed of 65km/h. After driving for four hours Mei caught up with Carel. Find the number of hours Carel drove before Mei caught up.
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Question 269091: Train A leaves a station traveling at 40 miles per hour. Four hours later train B leaves the same station traveling in the same direction at 60 miles per hour. How long does it take for train B to catch up to train A?
[A] 9 hr [B]10hr [C] 8hr [D] 11hr
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Question 269075: flying with the wind, a plane flew 1000 miles in 5 hours. Flying against the wind, the plane could fly only 500 miles in the same amount of time. Find the speed of the plane in calm air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 269014: In two hours a boat is rowed downstream 4 miles and back again. If the speed of the stream is 1.5 kts what is that of the boat?
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Question 269014: In two hours a boat is rowed downstream 4 miles and back again. If the speed of the stream is 1.5 kts what is that of the boat?
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Question 268558: How long (in hours) does it take to travel 50 miles at a rate of 10 meters per second ? (1 mile = 1.609 km)
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Question 269240: It takes one hour longer to fly to St. Paul at 200 mi/h than it does to return at 250 mi/h. How far away is St. Paul? I think it involves the use of the distance formula d=rt but I'm not sure how to use it because this problem only gives me "one hour longer" as a time.
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Question 269211: A man jogs at a speed od 1.1 m/s. His dog waits 1.9 seconds then takes off running at a speed of 3.9 m/s to catch the man. How far will they have each traveled when the dig catches up with the man? Answer in units of meters.
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Question 269283: a car gets 20 miles to the gallon gas is $2.60 how much will it cost to go 722 miles
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Question 268803: a boat can travel 42 miles upstream and 42 miles downstream in 10 hours. if the speed of the boat in still water is 10mph, what is the speed of the current.
I'm not sure how to re-arrange the formula for these variables, here's what I tried:
42+42/10=8.4 (presumably the average speed)
10mph-8.4mph=1.6(presumably the speed of the current)
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Question 269229: A Boat goes upstream 40 miles and downstream 86 miles in 8 Hours. If it goes upstream 24 miles and down the same distance in 5 hrs, what is the boat speed?
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Question 269515: if a train is going 50 mph and travels for 36 mints ...how many miles has the train gone?
need help with not just the answer but the brake down of how you got the answer
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Question 269593: Granville and Preston are 550 miles apart. A car leaves Preston bound for Granville; at the same time, another car leaves Granville bound for Preston, traveling 10 mph faster than the other car. If they meet after 5 hours, find the speed of each car.
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Question 269594: Indianapolis is 1000 miles from Amarillo. Andy left Indianapolis, traveling toward Amarillo an average speed of 60 miles per hour. Two hours later, Millie left Amarillo, traveling toward Indianapolis at an average speed of 50 miles per hour. How long after Andy left Indianapolis will they meet?
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Question 269592: The smiths invested $7500, part a 8% simple interest and part at 5% simple interest. If they received a total annual interest of $525, how much did they invest at each rate?
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Question 269591: A pharmacist has 30% solution of a certain drug and a 12% solution of the same drug. How much of each solution should she mix, in order to make 6 liters of a 24% solution of the drug?
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Question 269586: Katy needs to mix a 30% acid solution with a 60% acid solution to create 200 millileters of a 52.5% solution. How many millileters of each solution must Katy use?
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Question 269585: A northbound train and a southbound train meet each other on parallel tracks heading in opposite directions. The northbound train travels 12 miles per hour faster than the southbound train. After 1.5 hours, they are 201 miles apart. At what speeds are the two trains traveling?
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Question 269634: a motorist drove 150 miles on country roads before driving 50 miles on mountain roads. the rate of speed on the country roads was 3 times the rate on mountain roads. the time spent traveling the 200 miles was 5 hours. find the rate of the motorist on country roads?
i let x=rate of the motorist on mountain road
and 3x rate of the motirist on country roads
i set up the equation x/200 - 3x/200 = 5

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Question 269745: How long, in minutes would it take for a train to travel a distance of 50 kilometres, if its speed was 33 metres per second [120 kph] and how would you go about writing it on paper.
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Question 269748: A new copying machine can do a certain job in 1 hour less than an older copier. Together they can do this job in 72 minutes. How long would it take the older copier by itself to do the job
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