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Question 356742: An airline travels for 6 hours at an average speed of 650 km/h. What was the distance covered in that period?
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Question 356739: If i am traveling at 80kmh how long will it take me to travel 126km?
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Question 356796: what is the distance you will travel if you maintain an average speed of 10km/hr for 1/2 hour.
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Question 356820: Suposse you travel at an average speed of 80 kilometers per hour. How long will it take you to travel 460 kilometers.?
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Question 356820: Suposse you travel at an average speed of 80 kilometers per hour. How long will it take you to travel 460 kilometers.?
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Question 356805: A cyclist travels 36 mi in 3 hours going against the wind and 40 mi in 2 hours with the wind. What is the rate of the cyclist in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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Question 356835: Trains A and B are going in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is moving at 40 miles per hour. Train B is moving at 60 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 2:15am. If Train B passes the same station at 2:30am, what time will Train B catch up to Train A ?
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Question 356844: Dan drives 300 miles to attend college on the drive back home his average speed decreases by 10 miles per hour..

write an equation that gives the total driving time t ( in hours ) as a function of average speed r ( in miles per hour ) when driving to college ..

then it says
find the total driving time if he drives to college at an average speed of 60 miles per hour..

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Question 356843: Dan drives 300 miles to attend college on the drive back home his average speed decreases by 10 miles per hour..

write an equation that gives the total driving time t ( in hours ) as a function of average speed r ( in miles per hour ) when driving to college ..

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Question 356735: A mother horse and a baby horse walk 10 miles from point A to point B. The mother�s speed is 10 miles per hour and the baby�s 5 miles per hour. The mother rests for 2 minutes after every x minutes of walking. The baby keeps walking. They arrive together at the destination. Find the range of x.
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Question 356825: Two buses leave a station at the same time, traveling in opposite directions. The rate of the slower bus is 15mph less than the rate of the faster bus. After 4 hours, they are 492 miles apart. What is the rate of the slower bus?
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Question 356935: hOW FAST DO I HAVE TO RUN TO DO 26.2 MILES IN 3HOURS 55MINUTES?
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Question 356937: Engine pulls train 140 miles, 2nd engine is 5 mph faster than first, takes over and pull the train 200 miles, total time required for 6 hrs.
find the average rate of each engine.
totally stuck on the setup of the problem..
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Question 356938: Rachael runs 2 kilometers to a bus stop, and then rides 4.5 km to school. On average the bus is 45 km/hr faster than Rachael's average running speed. If the entire trip takes 25 minutes, how fast does Rachael run?
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Question 356940: calculate the average speed for driving 60 mph for 100 miles first, then flying 360 mph for 400 miles.
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Question 356918: A boat can travel 45 mph in still water. If it travels 200 miles with the current in the same length of time it travels 160 against the current,what is the speed of the current?
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Question 356862: Rachael runs 2 km to her bus stop and then rides 4.5 kms to school. On average the bus is 45 km/hr faster than Racheal's average running speed. If the entire trip takes 25mins,how fast does Racheal run?
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Question 356983: A small plane flies from Big Lake to Pine city everyday, with a 30min layover in Summerville. The distance between BL and Summerville is 575mi, the distance between Summerville and Pine city is 325mi. If the plane flies at an average speed of 200mph, how long does the whole trip (including any stops) from BL to Pine city take?
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Question 357003: John drives from point A to point B at a constant speed. On his way back, he drives 20% faster and spends 12 minutes less. How much time does he spend on the round trip?
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Question 357018: Tom drives 60 kilometers in 2 hours. What is his speed in km/h?
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Question 357081: The fastest moving insect is the large tropical cockroach. It scurries at speeds of up to 2.3 feet per second. Now write an equation that represents how many miles a roach can travel in 1.5 hours.
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Question 357075: At precisely noon, one plane leaves New York, heading for Orlando, and another leaves Orlando, heading for New York. The distance from New York to Orlando is 1300 mi. The plane from New York flies at 450 mph and the Orlando plane flies at 490 mph. When will the planes be 125 mi apart?
And this is what I got:
450x+490x=125
940x=125
x=125/940
x=25/188 <-I'm stuck at right here.
Thank you in advance!!
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Question 357051: eric plans to compete in a triathlon. he can average 2 miles per hour in the 1/4-mile swim and 6 miles per hour in the 3-mile run. his goal is to finish the triathlon in 2 hours. to accomplish his goal what must his average speed, in miles per hour, be for the 15-mile bicycle ride?

the possible answers are: (1) 120/11 (2) 11 (3) 56/5 (4) 45/4 (5) 12
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Question 357158: At Johnson Middle school, 170 students buy 3 ring binders from school store. This number has been increasing at a rate of about 25 per year. The number of students buying 2 ring binders is 300 and has been decreasing at a rate of about 15 per year. At these rates, when will the number of 2 ring binders sold be half the number of 3 ring binders sold?
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Question 357155: The winning race at the Daytona 500 auto race in 2000 was about 200 mph. The winning speed in 1995 was 150 mph. Approximately how many hours longer was the race in 2000 than in 1995. The total distance of the race is 500 miles.
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Question 357232: if a bus is traveling 60mph, how long will it take to reach dc from nyc

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Question 357299: Bob walks from point A to point B at 6 miles per hour and back at 8 miles per hour.What is his average speed
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Question 357293: A pilot flew a jet from Montreal to Los Angeles, a distance of 2000mi. on the return trip the average speed was 20% faster than the but-bound speed. The round-trip look 9h to 10 min. what was the speed from Montreal to Los Angeles

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Question 357288: Hey
Im really struggling with my math problems
a motor cyclist makes a trip of 500km. If he had increased his speed by 10 km/h, he could have covered 600km in the same time. What was his original speed?
I need the steps
Thank you
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Question 357287: A boy cycles from his house to a friend's house at 20 km/h and home again 25km/h. If his round trip takes 9/10 of an hour, how far is it to his friend's house?
I need the working out steps
thank you
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Question 357286: Hey, I really need help in this question:
Joe can run twice as fast as Pete. They start at the same point and run in opposite direction for 40 minutes. The distance between them is now 16km. How fast does Joe run?
I need the working out steps
thanks
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Question 357285: Hey, I really need help it this question:
A car leaves a country town at 60km per hour. Two hours later, a second car leaves town; it catches the first car after 5 more hours. Find the speed of the second car.
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Question 357316: some guy rowed 18 miles down the delaware river in two hours but the return trip took him four and a half hours find the rate this guy can row in still water and find the rate of the current
Let X = rate guy can row in still water
Let Y = rate of current

D = r . T

Down stream x plus y
upstream x - y
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Question 357289: I need help in these two questions
I also want the working out steps
1) Normally I drive to work at 60km/h. If I drive at 72km/h I cut 8 minutes off my time for the trip. What distance do I travel?
2) My moto boat normally travels at 24km/h in still water. One day I travelled 36 km against a constant current in a river. if i had travelled with the current, I would have travelled 48km in the same time. How fast was the current?
thank you
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Question 357468: Maria drove from Chicago, Illinois, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a distance of 90 miles, at a mean speed of 65 miles per hour. On her return trip, the traffic was much heavier, and her mean speed was 42 miles per hour. Find Maria's mean speed for the round trip.
HINT: Divide the total distance by the total time. (Round the answer to one decimal place.)
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Question 357537: If i was doing 30mph on my motorbike how long would it take me to travel 25 miles?
Thanks Steve
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Question 357606: Scott noted that the fast freight train left at noon and arrived there at 6 p.m. The next day he realized that the slow freight had made the same trip in 8 hours. What was the speed of the slow freight if the speed of the fast freight was 60 miles per hour?
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Question 357640: i need help with a figureing out how to solve, A bus travels at a constant speed of 80kmh how far does it travel in 45minutes?
i no its 60km but how does the it work if u change up the speed and and the time
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Question 357515: Please help with:
You and your friend are each driving 379 miles from LA to San. Fran. Your friend leaves first, driving 52 mph. She is 32 miles from LA when you leave, driving 60 mph. How far does each of you drive before you are side by side?
Thank you!
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Question 357658: A bus traveled 180 miles. If weather conditions had been better, it could have driven 5 miles an hour faster and completed the trip in 30 minutes less time. How fast did the bus travel?
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