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Question 402077: If you bike for 60km at 30km/h and return at 20km/h, what is your average speed for the whole trip?
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Question 402051: The river is moving at 5 miles per hour. A boat can travel 5 miles upstream in the same time that it takes to travel 15 miles downstream. How fast can the boat go in still water?

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Question 402091: Suppose a cannon is placed at the origin and elevated at an angle of 45 degrees. If the cannonball is fired with a muzzle velocity of 0.17 miles per second, it will follow the graph of the following function, where distances are measured in miles.
y=x-2000x^2/9537
What should I put in y1 on my calculator to graph this?
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Question 402306: Andreas drove for 8 hours at 45 miles per hour. How far did Andreas drive?
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Question 402306: Andreas drove for 8 hours at 45 miles per hour. How far did Andreas drive?
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Question 402415: A car started out from Memphis toward Little Rock at the rate of 60km/h. A second car left from the same point 2 hours later and drove along the same route at 75km/h. How long did it take the second car to catch the first car. Use the formula d= RxT, and also make a chart.
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Question 402503: ricardo drive 15 miles in 20 minutes what was his average rate in miles per hour
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Question 402443: A golf ball is launched upward with an initial speed of 30 m/sec by a golfer atop the Washington Monument, which is 160 m above the ground. How high above the ground will the ball be after 3 sec?
I'm not sure how to set this up. Should I use: distance = rate � time?

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Question 402551: A bug completes one lap along the edge of a
circular planter of radius 13.7 cm in 9.094 s.
How fast was it traveling?
Answer in units of cm/s.
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Question 402582: mary walked 5 feet to get her purse. How many inches did she walk?

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Question 401930: what is the average speed of a race car that traveled 250 miles in 2 hours
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Question 401952: a boat can go 20km down stream in 2h. the return trip takes 5h. what would the speed of the boat be if there were no current?

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Question 402839: If a person travels 30 m/s for 0.8 hours, how far will they go in kilometers.

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Question 402938: I have a word problem that says one person leaves at 2pm and is traveling 45 mph from point a to point b and the other person leaves at 2:15pm and is traveling 40 mph from point b to point a. The distance is 160 miles. The question is At what time do they pass each other on the road? I need help setting up a formula for this. I thought it might be 160=45x+40x but the answer to that didn't seem right. I know the formula d=rt, but I don't know exactly how to apply that to this problem.
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Question 402928: if a person is traveling at a rate of seventy five miles per hour in a straight line, how far would they travel in three seconds?

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Question 402967: a car travels at 60 miles per hour. At this rate how many miles can the car travel in 45 minutes?
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Question 402960: brent takes a trip in his car. he covers the first 30 miles in one-half hour and the last 50 miles in one hour. find his average speed in m/h?

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Question 402964: Two cyclists, 72 miles apart, start riding toward each other at the same time. One cycles 2 times as fast as the other. If they meet 4 hours later, what is the speed (in mi/h) of the faster cyclist?
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Question 402921: The force needed to keep a car from skidding on a curve varies inversely as the radius of the curve and jointly as the weight of the car and the square of the speed. If 242 lb. of force keeps a 2000-lb. car from skidding on a curve of radius 500 ft. at 30 mph, what force would keep the same car from skidding on a curve of radius 750ft. at 50mph?
Any help would be Great! Thanks
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Question 402978: Wendy took a trip from city A to city B, a distance of 350 mi. She traveled part of the way by bus, which arrived at the train station just in time for Wendy to complete her journey by train. The bus averaged 40 mi/h, and the train averaged 105 mi/h. The entire trip took 5.5 hours.How long did Wendy spend on the train?
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Question 403007: a boy rides a bike at 8 mph. if one hour later the father leaves and catches up to him in 15 minutes, how fast did the father go?
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Question 403031: Two runners start at the same time and proceed in opposite directions at the rates of 14km/h and 16km/h. In how many hours will they be 10 km kept apart?
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Question 402959: jim williamson began a 96 mile bike trip to build up stanima for a triathlete competition. unfortunately his bike chain broke so he finished the tip walking. the whole trip took 6 hours if jim walks at a rate of 4 miles per hour and bikes at the rate of 20 mph find the amount of time he spent on the bike. ??
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Question 403213: Here is another one I would need help with:
Kevin was swimming agains the current, it took him 8 min. to swim 200 meters. Swimming back with the current took half as long. What is his average swimming speed and the speed of the current?
Thank you for your help
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Question 403210: A car starts at the origin and moves with velocity = ( 13.0 , northeast).
How far from the origin will the car be after traveling for 45.0 ?
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Question 403256: The peregrine falcon has been clocked in the dive at 200 miles per hour. How many feet per seconds did the bird travel?
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Question 403256: The peregrine falcon has been clocked in the dive at 200 miles per hour. How many feet per seconds did the bird travel?
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Question 403223: A tractor travels 10 miles in the same amount of time it takes a car to travel 15 miles. The rate of the tractor is 15 mph less than the rate of the car. Find the rate of the tractor.
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Question 403195: The problem is:
Someone paddled upstream at 2mi/h relative to the riverbank. Returning downstream with the current, the speed was 3mi/h.
Find the paddling speed in still water, and the speed of the rivers current.
Could you please help me with this one?
Thank you
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Question 403251: A car can be stopped from initial velocity 84 km/h to rest in 55 meters. Assuming constant acceleration, find the stopping time.
is it 4.72 seconds?
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Question 403237: if i run 100 Meters in 12.0 seconds, how long would it take me to run 2 miles?
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Question 403418: One plane can travel 20 miles per hour faster than another. One of them goes 180 miles in same time it takes the other to go 150 miles. What are their speeds?

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Question 403395: Lois Lane leaves Metropolis driving 50 MPH. Three hours later, Superman leaves the city to catch her. If he is flying at 300 MPH, how long will it take for him to catch up with lois?
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Question 403555: a train travels 150 km in the same time that a plane covers 400 km. if the speed of the plane is 20 km per hr. less than 3 times the speed of the train, find both speeds.
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Question 403542: A young man is walking towards the front of a bus at a speed of 2 m/s. What is his speed with respect to the ground when the bus speed is 30 m/s? What is his speed relative to the ground if he is walking towards the back of the bus at 2 m/s?
Am I on the right track?
question one:30m/s + 2 m/s= 32m/s
question two: 30m/s-2m/s=28 m/s divided by the Earth's speed relative to the sun which is 3 m/s.
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Question 158128: A woman driving a car 14 ft long is passing a truck 30 ft long. The truck is traveling at 50 mi/h. How fast must the woman drive her car so that she can pass the truck completely in 6 s, from the position shown in figure (A) to the position shown in figure (B)?
(A)
---CARI --->
---------I
---------IT-R-U-C-K -->
---------I
(B)
-------------I
-------------ICAR -->
-------------I
T-R-U-C-KI --->
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Question 403605: during one year the larson's real estate bill included $525 for local schools. Of this amount $120 went to the high school district. What percent did the Larsons pay to the high school district?Round your answer to two decimals places.
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Question 403604: the length of a rectangular frame is 53cm.for what widths would the perimeter be greater than 160cm?

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Question 403524: billy and miranda are training at the track. billy can complete a lap in 40 seconds. miranda and billy begin at the same start/finish line and at the same time, but run in opposite directions. Although different, their individual speeds remain constant and they pass each other every 15 seconds. miranda stops after finishing 12 laps. billy continues to run at the same rate.
-my task is to determine how many times miranda and billy passed each other exactly at the start/finish line during the time they were both running and how many more minutes and seconds and exactly how many morelaps billy will need to run to have run exactly the same distance that miranda ran.
*i tried to draw a diagram and i had miranda run the 12 laps and during those 12 laps i marked evert 15 seconds where they met, however i got diferent answers everytime i tried.
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Question 403636: A train leaves the station heading north at 125 mph, a second train leaves 2 hours later on a parallel track heading north at 175 mph how far from the station will they meet?
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Question 403353: Hello again thank you for the help. Here is my question:
According to Froude's Law, the speed at which an aquatic animal can swim is proportional to the square root of its lenght.
a. if a 75-foot blue whale can swim at a maximum speed of 20 knots, write a function that relates its speed(s) as a function of its lenght (1)
b. How fast would a similar 60-ft long blue whale be able to swim?
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Question 403552: A mosaic has 600 tiles. There are 80 more square tiles than triangular tiles. How many of each tile are there?

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Question 403576: a car is going 35 mph, how fast is it going in cm per second?
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Question 403718: if a train travels at 20mph for 6 hrs. How many miles has it traveled?

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Question 403742: Stephen left at 6:00am and traveled 470 miles at a rate of 55mph. About when will he arrive at his destination?
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