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Question 316228: sam invested 2,000 at 5.25% annual interst rate and 3,000 at 8.5% interest rate. What percent interest is he earning on his total investment?
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if susanne drives for 2hrs for 80km/h, how fast must she drive during the next hour to have an average speed of 75km/h
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a chemist wants to mix some pure acidwith some water to produce16 L of a sulotion that is 30% acid. how much pure acid and how much water should be mixed
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if kelly bikes for 2hrs at 30km/h an hour and for 2hrs at 20km/h, what is the average speed for the whole trip?
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rita takes 3hrs to type a report. what part part of the typing can she do in 2hrs.?
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jake can wallpaper a room in 10hrs and laura can do it in 8hrs. what part of the job can they do by working together for 2.5hrs?
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Question 316250: John travels to a meeting 28 miles away. He has 30minutes to get there. How fast can he go to make it on time?
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Question 316292: a bicyclist,traveling at 30 miles per hour, rides a total of 48 miles. how much time did it take?
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Question 316324: An airplane travels against the wind in hours and with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?

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Question 316321: An airplane takes 6 hours to travel a distance of 3960 km against the wind. The return trip takes 5 hours with the wind. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 316433: A triangle sign is 2 ft taller than it is wide. The area is 24 ft square. Find the height and the base of the sign.
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Question 316497: a bird flew 36 miles east and 48 miles north. How far is bird from his starting point?
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Question 316576: A plane can fly 259 miles downwind in the same amount of time as it can travel 161 miles upwind. Find the velocity of the wind, v, if the plane can fly 210 mph in still air.
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Question 316581: A bookstore can purchase several calculators for a total cost of $216. If each calculator cost $2 less, the bookstore could purchase 9 additional calculators at the same total cost. How many calculators, n, can be purchased at the regular price?
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Question 316580: A tourist can bicycle 52 miles in the same time as he can walk 20 miles. If he can ride 8 mph faster than he can walk, how much time should he allow to walk a 29 mile trail? (Hint: How fast can he walk?)
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Question 316594: v/ (v+8)+ 1/ (v-13) =1
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Question 316604: If a train travels 200 miles in 2.5 hours, what is the rate of speed?
Use this formula: D = rt
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Question 316607: A truck enters a freeway traveling 40 mph. An hour later, a car enters the same freeway traveling 55 mph. At this rate, in how many miles will the car overtake the truck?
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Question 316542: a motor boat maintained speed of 27 miles per hour relative to the water going 20 miles upstream and returning. The total time of the trip was 1.5 hours. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 316644: y+3/ y-1 - y+6/1-y
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Question 316664: Freight train A goes from point A to point B at 40 miles per hour. Freight train B takes 2 hours longer to go from point A to point B because it only goes 30 miles an hour. What is the distance from point A to point B?
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Question 316667: x-y/ x^-1 - y^-1
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Question 316666: 1/p+1+1/ 3/p-1 +1
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Question 316672: -2-4/x+2/2+ 4/x
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Question 316649: 5y/x +3y/ y-4y/x
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Question 316647: a/a-1 - 4/a-4 + 5(a-2) / a^s (squared) + 3a-4
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Question 316646: - 8a/ a-5 + 5a/ a-1 + 32a/ a^2 (suared) -6a + 5
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Question 316675: How can two planes be positioned at the same number pair and still not be in the same spot in the sky?
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Question 316538: A bicycle leaves town at 10 mph at 8 am. A car leaves town going the same direction at 11am going 50 mph. How many minutes after 11 am will it be when the car overtakes the bicycle?
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Question 316697: Find the slope of the line that is perpendicular to the line
14x + 98y = 9
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Question 316695: find the slope intercept form of the equation of a line with the given slope that passes through the given point.
find the x and y intercept.
(-3, 0) (-3, -5)
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Question 316693: find the slope intercept form of the equation of a line with the given slope that passes through the given point.
slope = 0
through (0,6)
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Question 316699: If a train leaves Chicago at 45 mph heading east and a train leaves New York at 70 mph which state will they meet at?
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Question 316692: how far will truck travel in half a second at 80 kmh
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Question 316708: Mike and Jon leave their homes at the same time and meet somewhere in between their homes. Mike leaves and walks 2 meters per second. Jon walks 2.5 meters per second. If their homes are 20 meters apart, how far from jons house will they meet. How long did each walk?
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Question 316745: how long will it take a car to travel 14 miles if it travels at a constant speed of 45 miles per hour?
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Question 316793: a car travels 10km in 1 hour 12km in next 1hour and 6km in the 3rd 1 hour.calculate the average speed of the car.

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Question 316815: If a man earns $420 interest in one year at 7%, what was the amount of money invested?

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Question 316801: Marco�s speed riding up a hill is 40% of his speed riding down the hill. It takes him two hours longer to ride up the hill than it takes him to ride down the hill. How long, in hours, does it take him to ride down the hill? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Question 316915: A train can complete a trip of 'd' miles in 'h' hours. Find the average speed in miles/hrs, if on the next day the train completes the trip 30 min faster than the previous day?
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Question 316942: Ann runs 4 miles in 30 minutes. At the same rate, how many miles would she run in48 minutes?
I tried taking 30 and dividing it by 4, which gave me 7.5. Then i took 7.5 and multiplied it by 48. But the answer doesn't seem correct. 360.
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Question 316998:
a certain aircraft can fly 1190 miles with the wind in 5 hrs and travel same distance against the wind in 7 hrs what is the speed of the wind?
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Question 316983: Two planes take off from Salt Lake City, UT. The first plane is traveling 2.5 times faster than the second plane. After traveling in the same direction for 9.5 hours, they are 1239.75 miles apart. what is the average speed of each plane?
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Question 317026: At 5pm, Jill leaves New York City and travels toward Boston at an average rate of 56 miles per hour. At 6pm, Billy leaves Boston and travels toward New York, on the same road as Jill, at an average rate of 50 miles per hour. If they were initially 215 miles apart, at what time do Billy an Jill pass each other?

Remarks: I know we are trying to solve for 't' here, but I'm not sure how to setup the problem. Should Jill be setup as (t+1) or Billy should?? Thanks for your help.
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Question 316841: Olivia lives thirty-two miles from work. This morning, she left for work at 8:43 a.m. There was construction for the first twenty miles, so Olivia only drove at an average speed of seventeen mph around the construction area. If Olivia needs to be at work by 10:11 a.m., what should be her average speed for the rest of the way to work?
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Question 317043: A motorboat can travel 28 miles downstream in the same amount of time as it can travel 18 miles upstream. Find the speed of the current if the boat can travel 23 mph in still water. I thought the problem should be something like 28/23+x=18/23-x but this is not giving me the correct answer...not sure what else I can do
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Question 317087: A current is going 3 mp, boat goes 6 miles upstream in the same amount of time it takes a boat to go 10 miles downstream. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
I dont know of which (if any) formula to use. Distance formula?
i know that the first boat only travels 6 miles in the same time because it is going against the current
i dont know if i should put the boat having a motor into concideration because if no then it took the boat 2 hours going 3 mph to go 6 miles? <-- i dont think that parts right...but..and 3.3hr to go 10 miles down stream.
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