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Question 403672: A passenger jet travels from Los Angeles to Bombay, India, in 22h. The return flight takes 17 h. The difference in flight times is caused by winds over the Pacific Ocean that blow primarily from west to east. If the jet's average speed in still air is 550 mi/h what is the average speed of the wind during the round trip flight? Round to the nearest mile per hour. Is your answer reasonable?
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Question 403839: A boat travelled 80 km up a river at a speed of x km/hr, what was the time taken for the journey up the river?
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Question 403688: A slow jogger runs 2.5 miles in 29 minutes. How many km/hr is that?
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Question 403876: The distance from King Street to Prince Street is 21 km. It takes 30 minutes.
What is the average speed of the bus between these two places?
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Question 403978: Stan and Hilda can mow the lawn in 40 minutes if they work together. If Hilda works twice as fast as Stan, how long would it take Stan to mow the lawn alone?
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Question 404092: You are driving 68 mil/hr on I-26 to Columbia. This speed is ________ m/s?
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Question 404209: B is 50% faster than A. If A starts at 9 A.M. and B starts at 10 A.M. A travels at a speed of 50 km/hr.
If A and B are 300 kms apart, The time when they meet when they travel in opposite direction is ?
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Question 404228: A ball is thrown vertically upward. After t seconds its height h (in feet) is given by the function h(t)=104t-16t^2. What is the maximum height that the ball will reach? Do not round answer.
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Question 404102: Going down the river a boat went 11 mph. Going up the river it only went 3 mph. What is the speed of the current? How fast would the boat go if there were no current?
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Question 404386: Janice can mow the lawn in 2 hours. Her friend can mow the same lawn in 2 hours. How long would it take them to mow the lawn if they had two lawn mowers and worked for the same length of time?
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Question 404271: Distance and time: Two athletes are jogging in the same direction along an exercise path. After x minutes the first athletes distance in miles from a parking lot is given by 1/6x and the second athletes distance is given by 1/8x + 2.
(a) When are the athletes the same distance from the parking lot?
(b) When is the first athlete farther away from the parking lot than the second?

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Question 404428: If a bullet travels at 625.0 m/s, what is its speed in miles per hour?
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Question 404393: A ball is thrown upward from ground level with an initial velocity of 108 ft per sec. Its height h in feet after t seconds is given by the equation h=-16t(squared)+108t.
At what time will the ball hit the ground?
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Question 404438: Hi. I need help with a word problem please. One plane flys 20mph faster than another plane. One planes goes 255 miles and the other 285miles. How fast was each plane flying? Thanks so much for your help! My email address is rmillsfamily@comcast.net
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Question 404452: If a car's time to acelerate from 0-60 was 12, what would be it's miles per gallon?
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Question 404384: If you drove at average speed of 33 miles per hour, what distance, in miles, did you drive in 99 minutes?
99/60=1.65
1.65*33=54.45
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Question 404477: A bird can fly 25km/h. How long does it take to fly 15km?
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Question 404332: I have machine that travels at a max speed of 45" per minute.
How long will it take to go 2".
Thanks in advance
LT
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Question 404497: A car and a motorcycle both leave from the same point and travel in the same direction. The car travels at an
average rate of 65mph and the motorcycle at an average rate of 30mph. How long will it take before the vehicles
are 5 miles apart?
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Question 404408: a passenger train leaves a train station four hours after a train leaves the same station. The freight train is traveling ten mph slower than the passenger train. Find the rate of the passenger train if the passenger train overtakes the fright train in 20 hours.
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Question 404486: A sprinter accelerates from rest to 10.0m/s in 1.35s. What is her acceleration (a) in m/s^2 and (b) in km/h^2?
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Question 404484: A sports car accelerates from rest to 95km/h in 6.2s. What is the average acceleration in m/s^2?
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Question 404487: A car accelerates from 13m/s to 25m/s in 6.0s. What was its acceration? How far did it travel in this time? Assume constant acceleration.
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Question 404491: A light plane must reach a speed of 33m/s for takeoff. How long a runway is needed if the (constant)acceleration is 3.0m/s^2?
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Question 404656: for your job you often fly between seattle and miami. The distance between these cities is 2,724 miles. You earned a free flight after you accumulate 25,000 miles of travel. How many round trips (back and foth0 must you make between seattle and miami in order to ear a free flight

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Question 404622: A plane can fly 480 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 160 miles. If the car travels 80 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane.

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Question 404707: At a high school cross country meet, Jared jogged 8 mph for the first part of the race, then increased his speed to 12 mph for the second part. If the race was 21 mi. long and Jared finished in 2hr., how far did he jog the faster pace?
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Question 404731: points A and B are 70 km apart on a highway. a car starts from A and another car starts from B at the same time. If they travel in the same direction, they meet in 7 hours, but they travel in opposite direction they meet in one hour. what are their speeds
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Question 404678: At 9:00 a.m. a truck leaves the truck yard and travels west at a rate of 50 mph. At 11:00 a.m., a second truck leaves along the same route, traveling at 75 mph. When will the second truck catch up to the first?
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Question 404702: An airplane can travel 1350 miles with the wind in 6 hours and can travel the same distance against the wind in 9 hours. What is the speed of the aircraft? What is the speed of the wind?

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Question 404872: A person travels by car from one city to an-
other. She drives for 24.9 min at 74 km/h,
10.4 min at 105 km/h, 42.6 min at 45.9 km/h,
and spends 19.1 min along the way eating
lunch and buying gas.
Determine the distance between the cities
along this route.
Answer in units of km.
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Question 404852: �It took Peter sixteen more minutes to drive to work today than it did yesterday. Tomorrow he wants it to take five minutes less than yesterday so that his average drive time for the three days is no more than 30 minutes. How long did it take Peter to get to work each day?�

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Question 404881: a boat takes 2 hours to go 30 km downstream and 3 hours to go the same distance upstream. finds its speed in still water.
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Question 404894: It takes joan 3 times longer than jane to file reports. together they can do it in 12 minutes. How long would it take each woman to file the reports alone?
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Question 404954: Sue lives 2.5 miles from school. How long will it take her to get to school while traveling 3 miles per hour?
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Question 404972: If you travel 840 light years in 7 days at 120 light years per day...how fast would you have to travel to make the same trip (840 light years)in 12 hours or half day?
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Question 405126: A bag of fertilizer covers 6000ft2.
How many bags are needed to cover an area of 32000ft2?
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Question 405120: If a 3ft stick in the ground casts a shadow of 1.2ft find the length of the shadow of a 48.4ft tree.

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Question 405193: Two trucks leave from the same truck stop at the same time. One travels east on interstae 80 and the other travels west. The eastbound truck averages 40 miles per hour, and the westbound truck averages 50 miles per hour. In how many hours will the trucks be 300 miles apart?
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Question 405165: X person start walking a 6 miles per hr y person start walking 3 hours later a 10 m/hr how long before they cross paths?

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Question 405131: one conveyor belt requires 20 minutes to fill a large truck with ore. A second conveyor belt requires 30 minutes to fill the same truck with ore. how long would it take if both conveyor belts were working together to fill the truck with ore?
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Question 405335: Sydney rode her bike to school at an average speed of 15 miles per hour. What was her speed in feet per minute?

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Question 405322: If my speend is 60mph and my distance is 10 ft what is my time and how do I solve it by showing work
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