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Question 387223: Two cyclists start biking from a trail's start 3 hours apart. The second cyclist travels at 10mph and starts 3hrs after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6mph. How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with the first from the time the second cyclist started?
I have tried making a chart:
biker : rate : time : distance
1 : 6mph : T : 6T
2 : 10mph : T+3 : 10(T+3) then 6T=10(T+3)...but that doesnt work out.
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Question 387172: if i i drive 45 miles per hour and i have to drive 19 miles how long will it take
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Question 387257: A car traveled 3276 mi at a certain speed. If the speed had been 13 mph faster, the trip could have been made in 6 hr less time. Find the speed.
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Question 387271: If bus A arrives every 27 minutes and bus B arrives every 15 minutes, and both buses arrive at a stop at 5:07am, what time will they arrive at the same time again?
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Question 387214: If a stone is tossed from the top of a 310 meter building, the height of the stone as a function of time is given by h(t) = -9.8t^2 � 10t + 310, where t is in seconds, and height is in meters. After how many seconds will the stone hit the ground? Round to the nearest hundredth�s place; include units in your answer.
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Question 387129: Jon can paint a house in 4 hours. Jan can paint it in 6. How long would it take both to complete the house together?
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Question 387348: Holly and Emily travel at the same speed. Holly goes 8km in 24 min. How far dose Emily go in 6 min.
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Question 387394: if you were riding in a car that was traveling 65 miles per hour how fast would you be going in feet per second
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Question 387394: if you were riding in a car that was traveling 65 miles per hour how fast would you be going in feet per second
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Question 387411: 4. A ball is dropped from rest and allowed to free fall. Assuming acceleration due to gravity is 10 m/s2, after 6 seconds:
a) How fast is the ball falling?

b) How far has it fallen?

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Question 387426: a rock is thrown from the top of a tall buildign. the formula h=-16+234 describes the hight of the rock, h in feet, t seconds after rock is thrown. how lomg after rock is thrown does it hit ground
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Question 387432: maria and hector rode their bikes toward each other starting from two towns 24 miles apart. maria rode three miles per hour faster than hector and they met in two hours. how fast did each person ride

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Question 387387: Train A is traveling at 80 miles per hour
Train B is traveling at 84 miles per hour
Train A passes the station at 10:10PM
Train B passes the station at 10:40PM
What time will train B catch up with train A
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Question 387466: PLEASE HELP..COMPLETELY STUCK. Train A is traveling at 40 miles per hour and train B is traveling at 48 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 11:25 pm. If Train B passes the same station at 11:40 pm, at what time will train B catch up to train A?
THANK YOU!
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Question 387413: 5. A comet is flying at a speed of 400 m/s when it reaches the earth�s orbit and starts accelerating toward the earth with a=30 m/s2 for time t=8 s. What is its final speed?

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Question 387476: how long does it take to get somewhere 20 miles away at 45mph??
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Question 387476: how long does it take to get somewhere 20 miles away at 45mph??
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Question 387408: A car is driving at 100 km/hr for thirty minutes. How far does it travel?
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Question 387462: darren leaves on a car trip, driving a steady 15 M.P.H. he expects the trip to take 2 hours. after he has driven for 30 mins, he realizes he has forgotten an appointment and he needs to arrive 15 minutes earlier than he planned. how many M.P.H. will he need to drive for the rest of his trip to make his goal?
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Question 387430: if u cut a 156centemeter board into 5 pieces. thre three shortest pieces are the same lenght and the two longer pieces are each 3 centimeters longer than the dhort piece. how long is eah piece of board

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Question 387537: Two trains are traveling in 60 kmph on same trace, towards each other. When the distance between them is 18 km, a fly is going to start, flying between them in 80 kmph speed. Find the traveling path distance of the fly up to when it is going to crush by the 2 trains?
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Question 387571: There is a honey bee and a train 100Kms apart. The train travels at 40Km/Hr and bee at 60Km/hr. Both start from opposite direction. If the honeybee returns back to the starting point after colliding with the train. It again returns back after meeting the starting position and this process continues till the train reach the position at which the honeybee started. Find the total distance travelled by the honeybee.
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Question 387547: During the first part of a trip a conoeist travels 65 miles at a certain speed. The conoeist travesl 11 miles on the second part of the trip at a speed of 5 mph slower. The total time for the trip is 5hr. What was the speed for each part of the trip?
Simplify your answer. Type an integer or a decimal. Round to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 387634: a train is going to a place B and the velocity is 80 km/h. After half an hour, another train leaves for B and its velocity is 100 km/h. both trains arrive in B at the same time. what is the lengh of the route ?
Please tell me if this solution is good enough!
S1: speed of train 1
S2: speed of train 2
D1 = distance travelled by train 1
D2 = distance travelled by train 2
t1 : time it took train 1 to get at B
t2 : time it took train 2(which was late by 1/2 h) to get at B
When both trains arrive at place B, they would have travelled the same distance and thus: D1 = D2
S1 * t1 = S2 * t2
80 * t1 = 100 * (t1 - 1/2)
80t1 = 100t1 - 50
t1 = 2.5 hours
so the D1 = 80 * 2.5 = 200 km
also D2 = 100 * (2.5 - 0.5) = 200 km
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Question 387669: Carlos and Robert leave Cabanatuan city at the same time. They are heading to BuLACAN. Carlos, driving his sports car, travels 65kph. Robert, on a motorcycle travels at 55 kph. How long will it be before they are 55km apart?
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Question 387691: A motorboat travels 441mi in 7 hours going upstream and 522mi in 6 hours going downstream. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
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Question 387876: A bicyclist leaves Bay Shore traveling at an average speed of 12 miles per hour.
Three hours later, a car leaves Bay Shore, on the same route, traveling at an
average speed of 30 miles per hour. How many hours after the car leaves Bay
Shore will the car catch up to the cyclist?
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Question 387856: A bicyclist leaves Bay Shore traveling at an average speed of 12 miles per hour. Three hours later, a car leaves Bay Shore, on the same route, traveling at an average speed of 30 miles per hour. How many hours after the car leaves Bay Shore will the car catch up to the cyclist?
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Question 387938: A ball is thrown upward with an initial speed of 24.5 m/s. When is it 19.6m high?

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Question 387957: Julio left Joe's house 2 hours before Bob. They traveled in opposite directions. Huong traveled at 25km/h for 3 hours. After this time they are 425km apart. What is julio's speed?
I wish i had any work to show. I just don't get it at all
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Question 387964: train a and b are traveling the same direction on parallel tracks. Train a is traveling at a rate of 100mph and train b at 125mph. Train a passes a station at 6:10am and train b passes the same station at 6;22am what time will train b catch up to train a?
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Question 387974: a family drove to an amusement park at 50 mph and returned on the same route at 40 mph. find the distance to the amusement park if the total driving time was 7.2 hours.
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Question 388005: if a person is going 80 miles an hour how long will it take him to go 3 miles

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Question 388006: 2 person A & B travel in opp direction for 6 km and then take their right for 8 km .. what is the distanew between A&B ?

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Question 388027: I walk 3.6 miles in 52 minutes. How fast am I going in miles per hour?
Is this right: (60/52) X 3.6 = 4.15 mph?
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Question 388070: A subway train travels 296 miels daily how far does the train travel in a week?
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Question 388069: Elvira made a trip on Tuesday, and David made the same trip on Wednesday. Elvira traveled at 14 mph. David traveled at 21 mph, so his time was 3 hours less than Elvira's time. How far did they travel?
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Question 388066: the angles of elevation to an airplane from two points A and B on level ground are 51 degrees and 68 degrees respectively. The points A and B are 2.5 miles apart, and the airplane is east of both points in the same vertical plane. Find the altitude of the plane.
thanks for the help! i've been stuck on this problem for like an hour now!
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Question 388062: the angles of elevation to an airplane from two points A and B on level ground are 51(degrees) and 68(degrees), respectively. The points A and B are 2.5 miles apart, and the airplane is east of both points in the same vertical plane. Find the altitude of plane.
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Question 388092: Shameeka ran 60 miles in 15 seconds. How far did she run in one hour?
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Question 388097: Rosario spent $8.28 for two bags of dog biscuits. If there are 36 biscuits per bag, find the unit cost per biscuits.
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Question 388097: Rosario spent $8.28 for two bags of dog biscuits. If there are 36 biscuits per bag, find the unit cost per biscuits.
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Question 388094: Alexis spent $8.28 for two bags of dog biscuits. If there are 36 biscuits per bag, find the unit cost per biscuit.
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