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Question 345392: How fast can a fire travel 12 miles?
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Question 345456: how far a car travels at 50 mph in d hours
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Question 345517: A car enters the freeway traveling at 60 miles per hour. A second car enters the freeway 11 minutes later traveling at 65 miles per hour. How long will it take for the second car to catch up to the first car?
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Question 345443: if you ride 10 km north and then turn around and ride 4km south on the same road. what is the average speed for the trip if the whole trip took 1 hour?
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Question 345583: If a truck enters the highway at 60 mph, and 6 min later a car enters at the same point traveling at 71 mph. How long will it take for the car to pass the truck?
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Question 345156: Jaun drives to work. Because of traffic conditions, he averages 22 miles per hour. He returns home averaging 32 miles per hour. The total travel time is 2 1/4 hours. Wtie and solve and equation to find the time Jaun spends driving to work.
someone please please please help me.
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Question 345602: A PILOT FLEW TO DENVER AND BACK THE AVARAGE SPEED GOING WAS 320 MPH AND THE AVARAGE SPEED RETURNIG WAS 480 MPH THE TOTAL FLYING TIME WAS 5 HOURS FIND THE DISTANCE TO DENVER
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Question 345356: Chuck and Dana agree to meet in Chicago for the weekend. Chuck travel 124 miles in the time it takes Dana to travel 108 miles. If Chucks rate is 4mph more than Danas, and they travel the same length in time, what is chucks speed.
2)Airplane flies from Metro to Gotham with a tailwind that increases is 90mph and on the way back decreases the speed 90 mph. with wind on their back it takes 2.05 hours compared to with wind in face 3.46 hours. Whats the distance between the two cities?
Thank you if you get to this. These stump me like crazy!
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Question 345720: how long will it take a car going 65 miles per hour to catch up with a car going 55 miles per hour if it starts 1 hour behind
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Question 345763: An airplane flying at a rate of 500 mph leaves Hawaii en route to Alaska. One-half hour later, a second airplane leaves Hawaii in the same direction flying at a rate of 600 miles per hour. How long will it take the second airplane to overtake the first?
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Question 345536: Jordan can run 200 meters in the time it takes Bill to run 190 m. If they run at the same pace, and Jordan starts 10 m behind the start line, Who will win? How far back does Jordan need to start so Bill will win?
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Question 345869: if you drive 130 km/h for a distance of 1260 kms, how long would it take you to complete that distance?
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Question 345907: If I'm driving 10 miles per hour for 1 hour, how many miles would I have traveled in that 1 hour?
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Question 345961: A passenger train leaves Norfolk, Virginia, 1.2 hours after a freight train leaves. The passenger train is traveling 18 mph faster than the freight train on a parallel set of tracks. The trains are traveling IN THE SAME DIRECTION. The two trains will be at the same location 3 hours after the passenger train leaves. Find the speed of each train.
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Question 345964: Nicholas Thompson begins a long-distance walk at a rate of 4 mph. Forty-five minutes after he leaves, his wife, Kristin, realizes that Nicholas has forgotten his wallet. Kristin gets on her bicycle and begins riding at a rate of 24 mph along the same path that Nicholas took.
Calculate how long it will take Kristin to catch Nicholas.
Calculate how far from their home Kristin will catch Nicholas.
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Question 345962: Nicholas Thompson begins a long-distance walk at a rate of 4 mph. Forty-five minutes after he leaves, his wife, Kristin, realizes that Nicholas has forgotten his wallet. Kristin gets on her bicycle and begins riding at a rate of 24 mph along the same path that Nicholas took.
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Question 345948: a train travels a certain distance taking 7 hrs in forward journey, during return yourney increased speed of 12km/hr take the time 5 hrs. What is the distance traveled?
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Question 346073: The winning sailboat completed a 24-mile race at an average speed of 9 miles/hour. The second-place boat finished with an average speed of 8 miles/hour. How many minutes longer than the winner did the second-place boat take to finish the race ?
A 20 min B 33 min C 60 min D 120 min

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Question 345703: An airplane flying at 450 miles/hr due south experiences a westerly wind of 75 miles/hr. What is the actual velocity?
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Question 346080: Jake was in a bicycle race.His average speed was 22 miles per hour.At this rate,how many feet per hour did jake travel?
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Question 346145: what is the speed of a plane that travels at a rate of 560 mph with a wind of r mph?
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Question 346159: The Johnson's drove 275 miles in 5 hours. If they continue at the same speed per hour, how many miles will they have driven after 7 hours?
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Question 346237: On a 2 mile racetrack you bike the first mile at 10 mph. At what rate must you bike the second mile in order to average 20mph for the entire track?
I am not sure what formula to use and the average has me confused.
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Question 346231: A man rows upstream 16 miles in 4 hours then back downstream in 2 hours. How fast can he row in still water? How fast is the current?
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Question 346282: How far does a car go in 5 seconds while moving with an average velocity of 25m/s north?
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Question 346278: How far does a car go in 5 seconds while moving with an average velocity of 25m/s north
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Question 346392: what is 2 times 10
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Question 346297: If a person travels 12 miles each way on a bus and the bus averages 36mph for a total of 24 miles how many minutes is that person on the bus?
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Question 346433: mike and adam left a bus terminal at the same time and traveled in opposite directions. Mike's bus was in heavy traffic and had to travel 20mi/hr slower than adams's bus. After 3 hours their buses were 270 miles apart. How fast was each bus going
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Question 346537: the bus travel at 30mph left city at 10:30 am the car follow at 50mph leave at 12 noon at what time the car catch up with the bus?
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Question 346571: A particular hybrid car travels approximately 240 miles on 5 gallons of gas. Find the amount of gas required for a 720 mile trip.
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Question 346553: I need help in my assignment. It is due on friday sept.24,2010.So, I need this before friday. Here is the situation.A truck travelling along a straight section of highway, on a wet evening, braked suddenly to avoild blinky Bill who had wandered onto the road off in the distance.The reducing velocity of the truck under braking,v, in metres per second,is modelled by the equation:
v=30e^-t/2 -5
where t is the number of seconds after the brakes were applied.Assume the truck held its line under braking conditions
Question2
a. Find a fully simplified expression for v'(t)
b. Sketch a graph od v'(t) over the domain [0,10)
c. Explain what the derivative expression and sketch represents in terms of the braking situation?
d. Evaluate v'(0) and v'(2) explain the relevance of these values to the model.
Question 3
a. Find an expression for the distance traveled,s(t) after t seconds.
b. Sketch a grapgh of s(t) over the domain [0,10).
c. Discuss the limitation of this function as a model for the distance covered after braking.
d. Poor Blinky was 30m down the highway whe the brakes were applied. He was dazzled by the lights of the truck and froze to the spot.Show why our favorite koala was in a spot of bother.
e. How fast was the truck going when it struck Blinky?
f. What was the minimum distance Blinky could have been standing to avoid contact?

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Question 346643: a train travels 300km in 5hours.find the speed?
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Question 346616: A long distance runner starts at the beginning of a trail and runs at a rate of 6 miles per hour. An hour and a half later, a cyclist starts at the beginning of the trail and travels at a rate of 12 miles per hour. What is the amount of time that the cyclist travels before overtaking the runner?
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Question 346710: Kala runs 6 miles in 55 minutes. At the same rate, how many miles would she run in 77 minutes
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Question 346707: Kala runs 6 miles in 55 minutes. At the same rate, how many miles would she run in 77 minutes
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Question 346737: a car traveling at 60 mph will travel how far in 7 hours?
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Question 346737: a car traveling at 60 mph will travel how far in 7 hours?
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Question 346736: The fastest plane ever made, the Lockheed SR71, was able to travel 2200 miles per hour. Based on this speed, how far can it travel in 2 hours, 3 hours, and 5 hours? Round answers to the nearest tenth.
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Question 346760: If i'm driving 80 mph, how many miles will I travel in 23 minutes?
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Question 346372: wilma drove at an average speed of 50 miles per hour in city a to visit her sister in city b. she stayed in city b 25 hours, and on the trip back averaged 55 mph. she returned home 47 hours after she left. how many miles is city a from city b.
1. In terms of , express Wilma's driving time from A to B
It is :50 mph
2. In terms of , her return driving time is: 55mph
3. Her TOTAL driving time is: 22 hours
So answer from 1. PLUS 2. set equal to 3. is the equation:
= x/50+x/55=22
4. which is the equation we must use to solve for x Your answer for x is : ???
question 4 is the only part I need help on.
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