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Question 362228: Two trucks leave a warehouse at the same time, traveling in opposite directions. The rate of the faster truck exceeds that of the slower truck by 5 miles per hour. After 5 hours they are 600 miles apart. What are the rates of the trucks?
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Question 362396: if i am taking a bus from tampa, fl to las vegas a two day trip, how much gas will it take to full the train?
how many knots does a cruise ship go?

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Question 362407: At 7 am Joe starts jogging at 6mi/hr. At 7:10 am Ken starts off after him. How fast must Ken run in order to overtake him at 7:30 am?
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Question 362412: The senior class at high school A rented and filled 1 van and 6 buses with 372 students. High school B rented and filled 4 vans and 12 buses with 780 students. Each van and each bus carried the same number of students. How many students can a van carry? How many students can a bus carry?
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Question 362351: if two planes start at 9am at two airports which are 2100 miles apart and fly towards each other at average rates of 150mph and 200mph at what time will they pass each other?
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Question 362477: Sue and Joe are opposite side of a circular lake that is 1260 feet in circumference. They walk around it, starting at the same time and walking in the same direction. Sue walks at the rate of 50 yards a minute and Joe walks at the rate of 60 yards a minute. In how many minutes will Joe overtake Sue?
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Question 362482: Can you please help me with this problem:Olimpiada Ivanova, a world-record holding race-walker, is on one end of a 6 mile track. John Doe, an average walker, is on the other end of the track. The two start walking towards each other and meet in 1/2 hour. If Olimpiada's average speed exceeds John's by 6 mph, find the speed of both walkers. Useing the 5-step method. Thankyou
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Question 362492: Two ships are 1550miles apart and sailing toward each other. One sails at the rate of 85 mi/day and the other 65mi/day. How far apart will they be at the end of 9 days?
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Question 362534: Harry walked to the town at a speed of 4 miles/hr, and came back by bicycle at a speed of 12 miles/hr. The total time for to and fro journey was 5/2 hrs. Find the time taken by him to travel foot.
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Question 362543: An elderly wildebeest scents a lion and starts running away at 40mph. .02 hours later (about 1 minute) the lion starts running after the wildebeest at 50 mph. Presuming the lion and the wildebeest started from the same spot, how long will it take the lion to catch the wildebeest?
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Question 362585: two buses leave towns 756 miles apart at the same time and travel toward each other. one bus travels at 14 mi/hour slower than the other. if they meet in 7 hours, what is the rate of each bus?

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Question 362666: how far can a man drive out into the country at the average rate of 60 mph and return over the same road at the average rate of 45 mph if he travels a total of 7 hours?
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Question 362696: if bonnie walks 10 km in 80 min how man km does she walk per hour
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Question 362776: two trucks = 4.
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Question 362689: A sample of 150 flash drives contained 7 defective drives. How many defective flash drives would you expect in a batch of 2700 flash drives.
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Question 362683: A loaded truck is moving 40mi/h faster than a freight train. In the time that it takes the train to travel 150mi, the truck travels 350mi. What are their speeds?
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Question 362839: Kim averaged 52mph on state highways and 62mph on interstate highways on a 450-mile trip. if her driving time was 7 hours-45 minutes, how many hours did she spend on state highways? assume that the entire 7 hours-45 minutes was spent on either state or interstate highways, and round your answer to the nearest tenth of an hour
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Question 362848: Jack travels 12 miles each way on the school bus. The bus averages 36 miles per hour. How many minutes is Jack on the bus each day?
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Question 362951: how far can an airplane fly in 3 hours if its average speed is 800km/h
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Question 363005: A plane flies 400 miles with the wind and 320 miles against the wind in the same length of time. If the speed of the wind is 20 mph, what is the speed of the plane in still air?
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Question 362914: Jeff starts driving at 55 miles per hour from the same point that lauren starts driving at 60 miles per hour. They drive in opposite directions, and Lauren has a half-hour head start. How long will they be able to talk on their cell phones that have a 280-mile range?
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Question 363039: I am a little rusty with my math, I understand that mass can change the speed of an object when in earth's gravity. but i need to know the basic math on Flight time - to velocity. like this : how far can an object go traveling 3375 m/sec for 4 sec.
i can't recall if it was Devision or X or some other.
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Question 363030: An express train travels 150 miles in the same time that a freight train travels
100 miles. If the express goes 20 miles per hour faster than the freight, find the
rate each train travels

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Question 363087: In a stream whose current flows at the speed of 3 miles/hr, a man rowed upstream and returned to his starting point in 6.25 hr. If the man rows at a speed of 5 km/hr, in still water, how long did he row upstream.
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Question 362933: The river boat Delta Duchess paddled upstream at 12 km/h, stopped for 2 h of sightseeing, and paddled back at 18 km/h. How far upstream did the boat travel if the total time for the trip, including the stop, was 7 h?
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Question 363144: Define the two parts of an exponential number (a number with an exponent). Using words, describe an algebraic expression that would represent the time it takes light (written in exponential form) traveling from an unknown star to reach earth. Use 300,000,000 meters per second as the speed of light.
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Question 363185: A person drives due east for 20 miles and then due north for 30 miles. How far is she from where she started?
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Question 363068: Two bicyclists, starting at the same place, are riding toward the same campground by two different routes. One cyclist rides 1070 m due east and then turns due north and travels another 1430 m before reaching the campground. The second cyclist starts out by heading due north for 1800 m and then turns and heads directly toward the campground.
At the turning point, how far is the second cyclist from the campground?

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Question 363236: a train is going 150 mph. Another train leaving one hour later is traveling 100 mph. how long will it be before the 2 trains are 2000 miles apart.
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Question 363205: At 9:00 am, your friends begin hiking at 2 miles per hour. You begin from the same place at 9:25 am. You hike at 3 miles per hour. How long will you have hiked when you catch up with your friends?
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Question 363253: it takes ypur bus 1/2 hr to get you to school which is 2 miles away. how far would a round trip be in yards?
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Question 363253: it takes ypur bus 1/2 hr to get you to school which is 2 miles away. how far would a round trip be in yards?
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Question 363320: how do i do the problem b=rt r= 55 m/p t= 8.25h
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Question 363355: Danielle drives from her home to the store at an average speed of 40 miles per hour. She returns home along the same route at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. What is her average speed, in miles per hour, for her entire trip?
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Question 363370: A boat can travel 120 miles upstream against the current in the same amount of time it can travel 180 miles downstream with the current. If the boat's average speed in still water is 20 miles per hour, find the speed of the current.
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Question 363389: jans family drove to disney at 50mph and returned on the same route at 40mph. Find the distance to disney if their total driving time was 7.2 hours.
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Question 363321: how do i do b=rt r= 55 m/h t= 8.75h
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Question 363296: If a car was 1200 m away from the finish line, and it took the driver 0.4 mins to get to the finish line. How many km per hour, did the driver drive?
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Question 363411: Two buses leave Houston at the same time and travel in opposite diretions. One bus averages 50 mph and the other bus averages 45 mph. In how many hour will they be 570 mph?
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Question 363410: State College and Philadelphia are 297 miles apart. Amanda left State College at noon, heading toward Philadelphia, and averaged 54 mph. James left Philadelphia at the same time, heading toward State College, and he averaged 45 mph. At what time did they meet? How many miles did James drive before they met?
I did try 54x=297 and 45x=297 but of course, this only gives me the time of each driver for the total distance
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Question 363419: Nan and Peg started on trips from New York City and traveled in opposite directions. Nan traveled 10 mph faster than Peg. If they were 450 miles apart after 5 hours, how fast was each person traveling?
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Question 363417: Jim and Joe started on trips from San Francisco and traveled in opposite directions. Jim traveled 15 kph faster than Joe. After 4 hours, they were 420 km apart. How fast was each person traveling?
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Question 363474: In a given river,the current is 6miles per hour. A certain riverboat can travel 18 miles per hour in still water. How far upstream(against the current) can the boat travel if a round trip is to take 10 hours?
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