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Question 329312: Please help me. No matter how hard I try I can't solve this problem. Write an equation for the problem and solve. An airplane flies from New Orleans, Louisiana to Atlanta, Georgia, at an average rate of 350 miles per hour. The airplane then returns at an average rate of 250 miles per hour. The total travel time is 3 hours. Find the flying time from New Orleans to Atlanta. Thank you so much.
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Question 329352: Brothers Jack and Paul do brisk walking from their house to school daily. Jack walks at 9km/h, and Paul walks at 5 km/h. When Jack reaches the school, Paul is 500 m away. How far is the school from the boys' house?
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Question 329399: Maria drove to her grandmother�s house at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. On the way home, she averaged only 45 miles per hour due to traffic. If she spent a total of 3 1/2 hours driving, how many miles is the trip to her grandmother�s house?
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Question 329402: Distance=40miles, Time = 5 Minutes, Rate = 480mph
Using the formula D=R*T work through if you were missing one piece of information (Distance, Time, Rate)
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Question 329418: how many hours will it take to complete a 63-km bike ride if you go 20km per hour the whole time?
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Question 329450: A train running at 30 kph is overtaken by a car 4 hours after the train started moving. If the car started 1 hour after the train left, what is the speed of the car?
(ASAP)
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Question 329562: Two cars leave towns kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One car's rate is kilometers per hour more than the other's. If they meet in hours, what is the rate of the faster car?
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Question 329583: a man walks 5km and then 3km what is the total time travelled
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Question 329573: Car Hire company A costs $125 per day. Car Hire company B costs $320 plus .50 cents per km. Car is needed for 4 days - unsure of kms to travel.
1. what distance in kms do I need to cover to make Company B's charge cheaper. Define this in a mathematical equation.
2. How to show in an excel graph.
Thank you.

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Question 329593: Let�s say that you are driving on a straight route to a set destination, and you can drive at any speed you like. You stop for a few minutes but when you arrive at the halfway point, you discover that you have averaged only 20 miles per hour. So you decide to forego any more stops and drive fast enough to average 40 miles per hour for the entire trip. If you keep a steady speed, how fast should you drive?
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Question 329518: Solve the following problem. Draw a diagram and show your work.
A ship travels a distance of 82 miles in the direction N 18degrees E and then travels 46 miles in the direction S 72degrees E. Find the distance and bearing of the ship's final position from its original position.
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Question 329572: An office building has 33 floors, each 10 feet high, and elevators that travel at a constant speed. If it takes 10 seconds for an elevator to go from the first floor to the fifth floor, how long will it take an elevator to go from the fifth floor to the middle floor?
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Question 329674: It takes me 46 seconds to go one mile how fast am I going. thanks
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Question 329717: I have been stuck on this math problem for days! I have had my step mom try and help as well and we have gotten nowhere..
An express train and a local train leave Townsville at 8a.m. and head for Cityville 90 miles away. The express train travels three times as fast as the local train, and arrives two hours ahead. Find the speed of each train.
The problem we run into, is there isn't enough information to answer the question, unless there is something were completely missing.
This is what I've tried:
d r t
ex 90 3x-2 90/3x-2
lo 90 x 90/x
90/3x-2 = 90/x
90x = 90(3x-2)
90x = 270x -180
-180x = -180
x=1
So I don't think the train was going one mile per hour.. But that's all I can figure out.. And this is nowhere in my algebra book.
Thank you for your time,
Lauren
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Question 329756: A rock is launched from a cannon its height, h(x), can be represented by a quadratic function in terms of time, x, in seconds.
After 1 second, the rock is 186 feet in the air after 2 seconds, it is 344 in the air.
Find the height, in feet,of the rock after 8 seconds in the air.
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Question 329799: debbie can travel 3.5 miles in one hour how many miles can she travel in one third of an hour
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Question 329808: A boat travels with the current at 23kph and travels against the current at 14kph. What is the rate of the still water? What is the rate of the current?
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Question 329817: A man travel 128km at average speed of x km/h he find that he could have save 9/2 hours if he had increased his speed by 2 km/h.find x
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Question 329721: if my odometer reads 136mi and my speedomeater is off by 5 mph how many mi did i go
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Question 329873: A goat is tethered by a 6 meter rope to the outside corner of a shed measuring 4 meters by 5 meters in a grassy field. What area of grass can the goat graze?
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Question 329996: Two jets leave Denver at 9:00 AM, one flying east at a speed 50 km/h greater than the other, which is traveling west. At 11:00 AM the plans are 2500 kn apart. Find their speeds.
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Question 329993: A bus traveled 387 km in 5h. One hour of the trip was in the city traffic. The bus's city speed was just half of its speed on the open highway. The rest of the trip was on open highway. Find the bus's city speed.
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Question 330069: if each of base angles of an isoceles triangle is 5 less than twice the vertix angle. find the number of each angle?
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Question 330080: each leeg of an isoceles triangle exceed twice the base by 5 inches find each side of the triangle if the perimeter is 5 feet.
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Question 330057: Janet has $8.55 in nickels, dimes, and quarters. She has 7 more dimes than nickels and quarters combined. How many of each coin does she have?
3 years ago
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Question 330147: Professor Ortiz leaves campus on her bike, heading west at 6mph. Professor Wilson leaves campus at the same time and walk south at 2.5mph. how far apart are they after 4hrs? include check

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Question 330197: A ball is tossed into the air from a height of 12 feet at 16 ft/sec. How long does it take to reach the earth?
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Question 330205: Can someone please walk me through this?
If an object is in free fall, the sequence 16, 48, 80, ... represents the distance in feet that the object falls during the first second, during the second second, during the third second, and so on. How far will the object fall during the first 8 seconds?
____ft
Thank you!
Edgar
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Question 330060: A rectangle is 8 cm longer than it is wide. If the width is increased by 3 cm and the length is decreased by 3 cm, the area is increased by 4 cm2. Find the dimensions of the original rectangle.
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Question 330285: if you are going to Washington,D.C. from NY for 5 hours 1 minute for 252 miles how many mph are you going
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Question 330329: if you drive for 3 hours at an average speed of 50 miles per hour how far have you traveled?
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Question 330347: when a ball is thrown, it's height in feet H after t seconds is given by the equation h=vt-16t^2 where v is the initial upwards velocity in feet per second if v=13 feet per second find all the values of t for which h=2
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Question 330466: please answer this question:
a car is travelling at the rate of 60 km. per hour while another car is travelling at the rate of 7 km per hour.in how many hours will the two cars be when they are 260km. apart?

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Question 330593: james drives 5 miles per hour slower than ken. If James travels 100 miles in the same time that ken travels 110 miles, find each rate. solution?
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Question 330052: Plane X leaves airport 1 and heads for airport 2 which is a distance of 2,700 km. At the same time, plane Y leaves airport 2 and heads for airport 1. Due to headwinds and tailwinds, Plane X's average speed is 100 kph greater than that of plane Y. If the two planes pass each other after 3 hours, find the speed of each plane.
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Question 330614: The sum of twice a number and -6 is nine more than that the opposite of the number. Find the number.
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Question 330709: red car and blue car are traveling the same distance on parallel roads. Red car is going 40 mph and blue car is going 60 mph. red car passes the gas station at 4:15 and blue car passes the same station at 4:27. At what time will the blue car catch up to the red car?
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Question 330751: A motor boat takes 4 hours to travel 352 km going upstream. The return trip takes 2 hours going downstream. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 330782: At 8:00am Dave leaves his home on his moped, traveling east at 18 mph. At the same time and 80 mile away, Cathy leaves her home on her bicycle, traveling west toward Dave at 14 mph. At what time will they meet?
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Question 330798: An airplane flew 3 hours with a 40 mph head wind. The return trip with a tail wind of the same speed took 2 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air.

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Question 330955: Two cars leave town going in opposite directions. One car is traveling 40 miles per hour (mph), and the other car is traveling 20 mph. How long will it take before the cars are 300 miles apart?

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Question 331043: You travel 150 miles to your cousin�s house at a rate of 50 miles per hour. When will you get to your cousin�s house.
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Question 331059: A civic group builds a sandbox that is enclosed by 1-foot wide railroad ties. The group needs to find the area inside the sandbox to find the amount of sand needed.
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