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Question 340655: How long does it take an automobile traveling at 63.2 km/h to become even with a car that is traveling in another lane at 49.2 km/h if the cars' bumpers are initially 137m apart? Answer your units in s.

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Question 341515: it take you half an hour to travel 26 miles to work. what is your average speed??
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Question 341591: Pls help me solve this problem it's the only problem that I wasn't able to solve. Here it is: A train leaves new york city going west. An express going 20 mph faster leaves new york city 2 hours later on the same track going west. 6 hours later, the express hits the slower train. Find their speeds when the express hits the slower train. Thank you very much in advance!
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Question 341582: Two trains leave the station at the same time, one heading west and the other east. The westbound train travels 20 miles per hour slower than the eastbound train. If the two trains are 900 miles apart after 5 hours, what is the rate of the westbound train?
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Question 341614: what is the time to travel between two cities? The total distance is 960 miles. At an average of 75mph, how long would it take me? (Ruling out stopping for gas and food.) any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you
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Question 341528: How fast is a car traveling to travel 1.5 miles in 1.3 minutes and 2 miles in 1.3 minutes. Please send the equation to Newsi21@yahoo.com
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Question 341728: a cruise boat travels 96 miles downstream in 2 hours and returns to its starting point upstream in 6 hours. find the speed of the stream
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Question 341673: The scenic route from Mia�s home to her office is 5 kilometers longer than the direct route. When she goes by the scenic route and returns by the direct route, the round trip is 35 kilometers. How many kilometers is the direct route?
A. 5 B. 12.5 C. 15 D. 20 E. 22.5
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Question 341813: what must be your average speed in order to travel 220 km in 2.25 hours
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Question 341863: A car is traveling on a road that is perpendicular to a railroad track. When the car is 30 meters from the crossing, the car's new collison dector warns the driver that there is a train 50 meters from teh car and heading toward the same crossing. How far is the train form the car?
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Question 341809: a one-mile long train is traveling at a constant speed of 60 mph. if it enters a tunnel that is 1 mile long at exactly 1 p.m., at what time will the rear of the train emerge from the tunnel?
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Question 342038: if i travel 1.5 miles in 44.09 seconds, how many mph am i going?

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Question 342065: Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 60 miles per hour and train B is traveling 80 miles per hour. Train A passes a statin at 1:25 pm. If train B passes the same station at 1:40, at what time will train B catch up to train A
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Question 342043: A car leaves town at noon traveling 40 mph. Two hours later, a second car leaves the same town, on the same road, traveling at 60 mph. At what time will the second car pass the first car? I know the answer is 6pm, but I don't know how to get there.
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Question 342127: For normal situations, the minimum speed limit throughout the U.S Interstate Highway System is 45mi/h, or 72 km/h. How far in kilometers, will a car travel if it is moving continuously at this speed for 3 hours and 20 minutes?
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Question 342116: if a baseball is traveling at 96 miles per hour what is the speed in m/s?
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Question 342219: I've been working on this problem and just can't quite get it.
Lauris and Sheri are approaching the same intersection. Laurie is 2 miles north of the intersection traveling at 45 mph. Sheri is 1 mile east of the intersection and traveling at 30 mph. Express distance between them as a function of time traveled.
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Question 342284: rose and luke decided to take part in a twenty mile race. Luke runs at 5mph, while rose runs at 4mph. when Luke crosses the finish line, how far will rose be from finishing?
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Question 342305: a boat heads upstream a distance of 30 miles on the missisippi river,whose current is running at 5 mph. if the trip back takes an hour less, what was the speed of the boat in still water? answer rounded to 2 decimal places if needed.
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Question 342324: Explain how to find whether 10mi/h is faster then 15ft/s.
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Question 342324: Explain how to find whether 10mi/h is faster then 15ft/s.
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Question 342326: A train leaves a station traveling north at 105 mph. Two hours later a second train leaves on a parallel track traveling north at 135 mph. How far from the station will they meet?
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Question 342327: One hiker hikes down a trail at 3.5 miles per hour and hikes back up at 2.1 miles per hour, and she spent a total of 16 hours hiking. How far did she hike? and how long did it take her to get to the bottom?
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Question 342235: Kevin drove 320 miles to a mountain resort. His return trip took 20 minutes longer because his speed returning was 4 miles per hour slower than his speed going.
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Question 342339: Ava rode her bike from her house to her friends house averaging 16 km per hour. It turned dark so her friend drove her home at a rate of 80 km per hour. If Ava's total traveling time was 3 hours, how far away did her friend live?

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Question 342366: Two planes leave an airport at the same time, one flying east, the other flying west. The eastbound plane travels 110 mph slower. They are 2250 mi apart after 3 hr. Find the speed of each plane.
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Question 342383: Find the measure of an angle whose supplement measures fourteen times its measure.
I'm not sure this is the right answer... I divided 180 degress by 14 and I came up with 12.8571429 and I rounded it up to 13. I don't know what I am doing! Please help.
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Question 342354: The first 200 miles of the trip was covered in 8 hours. If the speed is doubled, how many miles can be covered in the next 6 hours?
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Question 342422: Car A travels from New York to Miami at a speed of 25m/s. Car B travels from New York to Chicago, also at a speed of 25m/s. Are the velocities of the cars equal? Explain.
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Question 342281: a car leaves san diego at 1 pm traveling at a constant rate of 40 mph toward los angeles. thirty minutes later, another car leaves san diego traveling toward los angeles at a constant speed of 55 mph. after what time is the distance between the cars 15 miles?
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Question 342485: "Two cars leave Denver at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One car travels 10mi/h faster than the other car. The cars are 500mi appart in 5h. How fast is each car traveling?"
(I was hoping that somebody could lend me a helping hand on this problem. I'd say word problems are probably my worst nightmare!)
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Question 342515: two cars traveling 40 and 50 mph leave their starting position at the same time. the faster cars starts out 5 mile behind the slower car. how long will it take for the first car to catch up with the second?
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Question 342546: Patrick drove 3 hours to attend a meeting on the return trip his speed was 10 miles per hour and the trip to 4 hours. what was his speed each way?
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Question 342657: If you are driving one km at 20km/hour how long are you driving?
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Question 342299: I was walking down the street one day andd a jgger passed me. I was curious to know whether I could figure out how fast the jogger was running, so I started paying attention to where the jogger was. When she passed a light post a little ways in front of me, I began to count seconds. It took me 9 seconds to get to the post. When I reached the pole, I looked up to see that she was just passing a mango tree. I again counted seconds until I reahed the mango tree and it took me 11 seconds. When I reached the fire hydrant, she was passing a phonebooth. It took me 14 seconds to each the phonebooth. I knew that I walked 2 paces in 1 second and my pace was 1 yard lng. Approximately how fast in miles per hour was the jogger moving?
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Question 342770: A boy can row a boat at a constant rate of 7 mi/hr in still water, as indicated in the figure. He rows up-stream for 18 minutes and then rows downstream, returning to his starting point in another 16 minutes. Find the rate of the current
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Question 342830: If it takes 20 seconds to drive 1/4 mile what mph am i driving.
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Question 342874: If two buses travel in different directions, one is going 20mph slower than the other. After 3 hours, they are 270 miles apart. How fast is each bus going?
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Question 342871: A car travels at a constant speed of 30.0 m/s for 0.8 h. Find the total distance traveled in km
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Question 342817: A car travels 330 ft in 5 seconds. What is the car�s speed in miles per hour?
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Question 342811: In a triangle, the measure of the first angle is 20 more than the measure of the second angle. The third angle is twice the measure of the second angle. Find the measure of the third angle.
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Question 342957: Trying to help my son with Algebra II, and I just can't remember!
Plane flies roundtrip from Denver to San Francisco a total of 1600 miles. Trip time is 9 hours. Return trip from San Francisco, the plane averages 40 mph faster than the outbound flight. What is the average speed to San Fran and back?
X1 = Avg speed out in mph
X2 = Avg speed back in mph
Y1 = time out in hours
Y2 = time back in hours
1600 Miles = X1*Y1 + X2*Y2
Y2= 9-Y1
X2 = X1 + 40 mph
X1 = 800/Y1
I set up to solve for mph, using the substitutions I've identified, and get lost...
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Question 342665: Two children, who are 252 meters apart start walking toward each other at the same instant at rates of 1.4m/s and 2.1m/s.
when will they meeT?
How far will each have walked?
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