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Question 349610: A car traveled 120 miles at a certain avarage rate. By increasing its avarage rate by 10mph, it traveled 160 miles in the same time it traveled the 120-mile trip. Find its average rate on the first trip. Show your work.

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Question 349632: Allison and Rachel are taking a trip together. They decide to share the driving responsibilities for the 480 mile drive. Allison drove at an average rate of 50 mph and Rachel drove at an average rate of 40 mph. If Allison drover 45 minutes more than Rachel, then how far did Rachel drive?
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Question 349630: Robert has a jet ski that will travel at the rate of 35 mph in still water. He can go 50 mph up a river in the same amount of time it takes im to go 75 mph down the river. How fast can Robert travel going down the river?
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Question 349757: A boater travels 16 miles per hour on the water on a still day. During one particular windy day, he finds that he travels 48 miles with the wind behind him in the same amount of time that he travels 16 miles into the wind. find the rate of wind.
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Question 349792: . Choose the best answer to the following question. If X is the set of positive multiples of 2, and Y is the set of positive multiples of 3, then the intersection of X and Y is:
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Question 349802: How long will it take to drive 330 miles if I go 55 mph and start at 11pm?
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Question 349802: How long will it take to drive 330 miles if I go 55 mph and start at 11pm?
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Question 349802: How long will it take to drive 330 miles if I go 55 mph and start at 11pm?
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Question 349731: Two railroad workers were working together in a 1.2 Km mountain tunnel when a signal light flashed indicating the approach of a train, which was traveling at 60 Km/hr. Walking east, one worker reached the east end of the tunnel in 6 minutes, as the train entered the tunnle. The other worker reached the west end of the tunnel in 6 minutes and was passed by the train .24 Km beyond the west end of the tunnel. At what rate did each worker walk?
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Question 349810: an airplane travels 520 miles in 1.3 hours. What is its speed per hour
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Question 349899: if a car stops at 270ft going 70 mph how many feet for a car going 60 mph
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Question 349707: please help me solve this. how many seconds would it take to do one 2.5 lap going 190 mph
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Question 349890: a pot contains 6 liters at a concentration of 120 grams per liter. how much of the water should be boiled off to increase the concentration to 200 grams per liter? i found x to equal 3.6 liters left over but i don't know what to do after that.
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Question 349865: an airplane is traveling at a rate of 120 miles per hour. how long will it take the plane to travel 380 miles?
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Question 350028: The speed of the freight train is 23 mph slower than that of a passenger train. The freight train travels 250 miles in the same time it takes the passenger train to travel 450 miles. Find the speed of the passenger train.
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Question 350071: A train leaves Perryville at 6:00 AM and travels east at a rate of 64 mph. As it reaches its destination, Granite City, a westbound train departs from Granite City for Perryville, traveling at a rate of 48 mph. How far is it from Perryville to Granite City by train if the westbound train gets to Perryville at 9:30 AM?
I tried making a chart and I know that one has to complete its trip before the other begins thus making two entire trips. Train 1 travels at 64 mph and Train 2 travels at 48 mph and they both complete the distance in 210 minutes. Distance=Rate*Time so the problem is essentially two problems with their answers added together (correct?) but the issue is what to use in the time box of my chart. Distance is blank and is RT with RT containing a variable. How do I find out what goes in the time box? how do I find the distance traveled by both trains and the time it took each train to complete the trip?
Thanks so much!!! :)
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Question 350117: if a ball is moving at 70 mph, how long does it take to go 43 ft?
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Question 350114: solve (a plane flys 2400 miles one way and takes 4 hours, then fly's back the same way and takes an hour and a half longer. what is the speed of the plane in still air and what is the wind speed?
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Question 350150: a train goes 60 mph how fast will it travel in 20 minutes
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Question 350150: a train goes 60 mph how fast will it travel in 20 minutes
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Question 350212: A car travels at 60 mph east for 20 min then at 30 mph east for 30 minutes. What is the average speed and average velocity?
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Question 350179: a car traveling at 3.0 m/s has a constant acceleration of 4.0 m/s^2 after 2.0 seconds, the velocity is?
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Question 350221: A car travels at 60 mph east for 20 min then at 30 mph west for 30 minutes. What is the average speed and average velocity?
Average speed I got, 42 mph. Not sure about average velocity.
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Question 350197: The automobile traveled 45 mph and at 30 minutes. Whats the distance it traveled

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Question 350229: A train travels 360 miles in 3 hours What is the Unit rate?
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Question 350289: Sam is going to a meeting that is 28 miles away. He needs to be there in 30 minutes. How fast does he need to go to make it to the meeting on time?
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Question 350283: Kesha drove from Buffalo to Syracuse at an average rate of 48 miles per hour. On the return trip along the same road she was able to travel at an average rate of 60 miles per hour. The trip from Buffalo to Syracuse took one-half hour longer than the return trip. How long did the return trip take?
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Question 350271: two planes leave an airport at the same time. one flies west at 600 mph and the other flies south at 800 mph. how far apart will they be in one hour?
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Question 350234: an airplane travels 400 miles against the wind in 4 hours, and makes the return trip in 2 hours. What is the rate of the wind
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Question 350457: A car travels 50 m at a rate of 10m/s,S. It then travels 200m at a rate of 20m/s, N. What is its average speed? Its average velocity??
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Question 350469: how long would it take you to walk 10km if your time was 6.6 seconds in 12 meters?
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Question 350435: Emily leaves home at 2:00 traveling 30 miles per hour. Sarah leaves 20 mins. later traveling at 36 miles per hour. At what time will they meet up.
I think it has something to do with t=r/d but the question does not give distance. I also tried at table 30t+36(t+20)= ____ but I don't know what to put in the blank. Please help me. Thank you for you time.
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Question 350497: First off, thanks for volunteering your time and expertise to help students; you are so valuable to us!
Two brothers , Bob and Charlie , live 450 miles apart. Starting at the same time they plan to drive until they meet. Bob averages 10 mph faster than Charlie who averages 50 mph. How long will it take them to meet?
Let t = time (in hours)
60(t) + 50(t) = 450
t = 4.09 hours
I have a very bad history with converting a word problem into a math problem, so I am not too confident in my solution.
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Question 350551: A car traveling at 10 m/s accelerates at 1.5 m/s^2 for 20 s. How far does it go? What speed is obtained?
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Question 350550: A car takes off from rest and covers 25 m while accelerating at 2.0 m/s^2. How long does it take? What speed is obtained?
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Question 350549: A car traveling at 40 m/s decelerates at 4.0 m/s^2 and comes to rest. How long does it take? How far does it go?
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Question 350516: How long does it take an automobile traveling 63.5 km/h to become even with a car
that is traveling in another lane at 46.5 km/h if the cars� front bumpers are initially 115 m
apart?
Answer in units of s.
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Question 350555: As a coin on a turntable spins in a circle with speed 8.0 m/s it experiences a centripetal acceleration of 2.0 m/s^2. What is the radius and period?
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Question 350611: Mike drives to a friend's house at 40 mi/h. He drives home the same route at 45 mi/h. The total trip took 4 hours. What is the total distance mike drives?
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Question 350638: Airplane A travels 2800 km at a certain speed. Plane B travels 2000 km at a speed 50 km/hr faster than Plane A in 3 hrs less time. Find the speed of each plane
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Question 350657: a cyclist travels 32 kilometers during the first two hours of riding and 13 kilometers during the next hour. What was his average?
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Question 350545: A car travels at 60 mph east for 20 min then at 30 mph north for 30 min. What is the average speed and average velocity?
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Question 350519: A man commutes to work a distance 35 miles and returns on the same route at the end of the day. His average rate on the return trip is 20 miles per hour faster than his average rate on the outgoing trip. write the total time, T, in hours, devoted to his out going and return trips as a function of his rate on the outgoing trip, x. Then find an interpret T(25)
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Question 350553: While following a circular path of radius 8.0 m a truck requires a centripetal acceleration of 2.0 m/s^2. What is the period and speed?
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