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Question 388013: A speedboat takes 4 hours longer to go 80 miles up a river than to return. If the boat cruises at 15 miles per hour in still water, what is the rate of the current?
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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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Question 388157: mary travels 7 miles north and 12 miles west. what is the diagonal distance from her starting point to where she stopped?
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Question 388157: mary travels 7 miles north and 12 miles west. what is the diagonal distance from her starting point to where she stopped?
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Question 388224: A car travels for 90 miles at an average speed 60mph. Due to traffic it then reduces its average speed to 30mph for a further 60 miles. How long does the journey take?

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Question 388235: how fast does a car travel if it travels 11 miles in 8 minutes
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Question 388346: You are flying a plane at 14.1 mph in the northeast direction (45 degrees) the wind is blowing at 4 mph from due north. what is you air speed?
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Question 388124: If fuel costs $1.40 per gallon, write the cost function, c(x), that expresses the cost of fuel for a 500 mile trip as a function of the speed. What driving speed will make the cost of fuel for the trip $250?
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Question 388576: Two cars travel the same distance. The first car travels at a rate of 40 miles per hour and reaches its destination in t hours. The second car travels at a rate of 55 miles per hour and reaches its destination 3 hours earlier than the first car. How long does it take for the first car to reach its destination? How long does it take for the second car to reach its destination?

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Question 388589: A and B are 30 km apart.If they leave at the same time and travel in the same direction, A overtakes B in
60 hours.If they walk toward each other, they meet in 5 hours. What are their rates?
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Question 388068: Roger made the trip on Sunday, and Judy made the same trip on Monday. Roger traveled at 12 mph. Judy traveled at 20 mph, so her time was 2 hours less than Roger's time. How far did they travel?
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Question 388616: speed of a boat in still wateris 9km/hr.It goes 12km down stream and comes back to the starting point in 3hrs.What is the speed of water in the stream?
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Question 388638: 2 passenger trains traveling in opposite directions meet and pass each other. Each train is 1/12 mi long and is traveling at 50 mph. How many seconds after front part of the trains meet will their rear parts pass each other?
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Question 388640: If you are traveling at a speed of 64 miles per hour, how long will it take to drive 430 miles?
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Question 388652: 19. A motorboat can go 16 miles downstream on a river in 20 minutes. It takes 30 minutes for this boat to go back upstream the same 16 miles.Let x = the speed of the boat.
Let y = the speed of the current.

a. Write an equation for the motion of the motorboat downstream.
b. Write an equation for the motion of the motorboat upstream.
c. Find the speed of the current.

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Question 388672: A person drives with constant speed and after some time he sees a milestone with 2 digits. Then travels for 1 hours and sees the same 2 digits in reverse order. 1 hours later he sees that the milestone has the same 2 digits with a 0 between them. What is the speed of the car?
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Question 388680: A car travels 100 km at a speed of 60 km/h and returns with a speed of 40 km/h. Find the average speed for the whole journey
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Question 388682: One car's headed south at 70mph. The other is headed north at 65mph. They leave from the exact same place. How long will it take the cars to get 270 miles apart?
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Question 388688: Please help me solve this

When a train carying poisonous gas derails, authorities order all people living within 5 miles to evacuate the area. The derailment has coordinates (-5,-5) and your location is at (4,1). How far are you from the derailment? Round your answer to two decimal places (coordinates are in miles).

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Question 388689: Please help me solve this
Find the distance between the points:
(-3,-3) and (-3,6).

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Question 388678: at 45 MPH I traveled 3 mile. what time did it take me.
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Question 388723: james drove 200 miles in 4 hours. at this rate, what is the total number of hours it will take him to drive 150 miles
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Question 388744: An automobile is travel1ing at 16 m/s. The driver perceives a need to stop and appIies the brakes producing a (negative) acceleration of 4.0 m/S^2. Take the reaction time of the driver, the time to move from the go pedal to the stop pedal, as 1,0 s.
How far does it take for the car to stop?
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Question 388768: How long in time to travel 281 miles going 80 per hour?
Hoq long in time to travel 300 miles going 90 per hour?
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Question 388782: who do you work those out

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Question 388842: two helicopters take off at the same time from the same airport and travel in opposite directions. The northbound aircraft travels at 350 km/h and the southbound aircraft is 25 km/h slower. In how many hours will the two helicopters be 2025 km apart?
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Question 388835: On Monday, Roger drove to work in 2 hours. On Tuesday, he averaged 15 miles per hour more, and it took him 30 minutes less to get to work. How far (in miles) does he travel to work?
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Question 388923: If it takes 8 hours to to drive 496 miles, what is the speed limit all the way there?
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Question 388922: If it takes 8 hours to drive 496 miles, what is the speed limit all the way there?
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Question 388922: If it takes 8 hours to drive 496 miles, what is the speed limit all the way there?
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Question 389014: Sam wants to swim in a river with a current of 2 miles an hour. He can travel 8 miles upstream and back in 3 hours. How fast is he in still water?
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Question 389041: Find the distance between the point P(5, 5) and Q(3, 3)
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Question 389040: Two cars leave Pima Community College traveling in opposite directions. One car travels at 80mph and the other at 54mph. How many hours will they be 938 miles apart?
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Question 389044: a and b are two station 300 km apert.Two train start simultaneously from a and b, each to the opposite station .The train from a reaches b 9 hours , the train from b reaches a 4 hours after they meet, Find the rate at which each train travels? slove the problem.

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Question 387690: A motorboat takes 4 hours to travel 320 km going upstream. the return trip takes 2 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 387664: An express train travels 150 km in the same time that a freight train travels 100 km. If the express train goes 20km per hour faster than the freight train, find the rate of each. Tnx!
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Question 388063: A boat is sailing due east parallel to the shore line at a speed of 10 miles per hour. At a given time, the bearing of the lighthosue is 70 degrees E and 15 minutes later, the bearing is 63 degrees E. The lighthouse is located on the shoreline. What is the distance from the boat to the shoreline.
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Question 389088: The fair's train ride covers a distance of 3 miles in 20 minutes. What is the speed for the ride in miles per minute?
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Question 389088: The fair's train ride covers a distance of 3 miles in 20 minutes. What is the speed for the ride in miles per minute?
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Question 389096: the fair's train ride covers a distance of 3 miles in 20 minutes. What is the speed for the ride in miles per hour?
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Question 389097: the fair's train ride covers a distance of 3 miles in 20 minutes. Write an equation you can use to determine how long it would take the train to cover any distance if it travels at this same speed.
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