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Question 407440: susan is riding her bicycle. She takes 5 hours to ride 62.5 kilometers. What is her speed?
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Question 407643: brother and sister left house at same time.
brother heads east on bike at 13 mph
sister heads west on skateboard at 5 mph
how long will it take them to be 9 miles apart
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Question 407634: It takes a freight train 3 hours more to travel 200 miles than it takes an express train to travel 120 miles. The rate of the express is 20 miles per hour faster than the rate of the freight train. How do I find the rates of both trains.
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Question 407702: A cyclist leaves his training base for a morning workout, riding at the rate of 16 mph. One hour later, his support staff leaves the base in a car going 30 mph in the same direction. How long will it take the support staff to catch up with the cyclist once the car leaves the base?
I just wanna fid out how to set it up cause I know the formula(r*t=d)
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Question 407757: A woman can bicycle 28 miles in the same time as it takes her to walk 8 miles. She can ride 10 mph faster than she can walk. How fast can she walk?

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Question 407834: If you drive 5 miles in 6 minutes is your speed over 55 mph, and what is your speed?
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Question 407877: Noan and Ben are running in the Walker Street Fun Run. Noah runs at 7 mph, Ben at 5 mph. If they start at the same time, how long (in minutes) will it be before they are 1/6 mile apart?
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Question 407879: how far have you traveled if you ran 15 minutes at 5 miles per hour
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Question 407879: how far have you traveled if you ran 15 minutes at 5 miles per hour
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Question 407879: how far have you traveled if you ran 15 minutes at 5 miles per hour
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Question 407886: pls culd someone help out with dis: it costs a manufacturer x dollars per component to make the first 1,000 components. all subsequent components cost x/3 eac. when x=$1.5. how much will it cost to manufacture 4,000 components

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Question 407880: A skater increases her volocity from 4m/s to 12m/s in 5 secounds ,what is her acceleration?
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Question 407950: An aircraft flew 7 hours with the wind. The return trip took 8 hours with the wind. If the speed of the plane in still air is 630 miles per hour more than the speed of the wind, find the wind speed and the speed of the plane in still air.
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Question 407755: Brianna can paddle her kayak 5 miles per hour in still water. It takes her as long to paddle 9 miles upstream as it takes her to travel 21 miles downstream. Determine the speed of the river's current.

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Question 408008: A car averaged 40 mph for part of a trip and 50 mph for the remainer. If the 5-hour trip covered 210 miles, for how long did the car average 40 mph?
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Question 408032: I have a word problem here that I cant figure out the question says
A car and a bus set out at 3 p.m. from the same point headed in the same direction. The average speed of the car is twice the average speed of the bus. in 2 hours the car is 68 miles ahead of the bus. find the rate of the car
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Question 408034: a long distance trucker traveled 72 miles in one direction during a snow storm. The return trip in rainy weather was accomplished at double the speed and took 2 hours less time. find the speed going
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Question 408033: If I am traveling 35mph going somewhere 8 miles away. How long will it take me to get there? What's the equation for this answer?
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Question 408038: A passenger train leaves a train depot 2 hours after a freight train leaves the same depot. The freight train is traveling 20 mph slower than the passenger train. Find the rate of each train if the passenger train overtakes the freight train in 3 hours.
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Question 408108: How far will you go in 3.0 min. traveling 60 km/hr. I have attemted to convert the min. to hours but I don't understand.
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Question 408142: A family is going on a trip. If they travel at 65 mph for one hour, and then their speed increases to 75mphfor 45 minutes, and then the speed decreases to 65mph for the next 45 minutes how many
miles would they have driven?
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Question 408154: a new schedule for a train requires it to go 270 miles in 26 minutes less time than before. To do thsi it must average 4 mpoh faster. What must its new average speed be?
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Question 408171: Carl can walk from his home to school in 30 minutes. It takes his sister 35 minutes to walk the same distance. How long would it take them to meet, if one started from school and the other at home at the same time and they walked toward each other at their usual speeds.
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Question 408091: Jack and Tim were standing in the main street. The distance between the boys was x metres. At the same moment the boys started to move. Jack was running at a m/s and Tim walked at b m/s.
Find the time when the boys met if
a) they moved towards each other,
b) they moved in the same direction, walker in front.

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Question 408281: a car travels at an average speed of 64miles per hour. How long does it take to travel 240 miles?
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Question 408285: How much water must be evaporated from 28 ounces of a 5% salt solution to make a 7% salt solution
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Question 408241: 2 cyclists leave a city at the same time.One going east and one going west. The west bound cyclist bikes at 3mph faster than the east bound cyclist. After two hours, they are 90 miles apart. how fast is each cyclist riding?
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Question 408363: At 2:00pm a runner heads north on a highway, jogging at 10mph. At 2:30pm a driver heads north on the same highway to pick up the runner. If the car travels at 55mph, how long will it take the driver to catch the runner?
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Question 408496: two planes start from the same point, and fly in opostie directions, the first Plane is flying 25mph slower than the second plain. In two hours the planes are 470 miles apart. Find the rate of speed of each plane.
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Question 408497: A runner's best time for the mile was:
4 min 53 sec in 2004
4 min 38 sec in 2005
4 min 20 sec in 2006
find the average rate of change in seconds per year.

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Question 408433: traveling at a rate of 60 miles per hour , Teo drives past the Meadville rest area. Thirty minutes later Sierra drives past the same rest area at a rate of 70 miles per hour. If Teo and Sierra continue to travel at their current rate , how long will it take Sierra to catch up with Teo?
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Question 408747: Liz drove the first half of a trip at 36 mi/h. At what speed should she cover the remaining half in order to average 45 mi/h for the whole trip?
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Question 408764: Liz drove the first half of a trip at 36 mi/h. At what speed should she cover the remaining half in order to average 45 mi/h for the whole trip
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Question 408630: 1. When travelling at a fixed speed, travel time is directly proportional to distance travelled. If you go 120 miles in 3 hours, how long would a trip of 200 miles take?
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Question 408559: Two trains leave a station at the same time. One travels east at 50 miles per hour and the other travels west at 55 miles per hour. In how many hours will the two trains be 315 miles apart?
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Question 408911: A car travels 48 miles an hour how long does it take to travel 204 miles?
In hours and minutes?
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Question 408948: Jim drove the 120 miles to Grandmother's house in 3 hours. He increased his speed by 10 miles per hour on the way home. How long did it take him to drive home?
"Changing Rates"
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Question 408943: If it takes 1 hour to build something. How long would it take if I sped it up by 10%?
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Question 409014: One car travels 10mi/h faster than the other car. the cars are 500 mi apart in 5 h. how fast is each car driving
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Question 408917: At the beginning of the walk, Robert and Juanita are 5.5 miles apart. If you leave at the same time and walk in the same direction, Robert over takes Juanita in 11 hours. If they walk towards each other, they meet in 1 hour. What are their speeds?
Roberto Speed____ mph
Juanita Speed_____mph
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Question 409062: driving at an average speed of 50 miles an hour the trip will take 22 hours
calculate the number of miles one way
convert the one way distance from miles to KM
find the total distance from miles to kilometers
the family car uses 6.3 L of gas per 100km. how many litres of gas are needed for the round trip?
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Question 408963: A train leaves Fairbanks going 30 mph. at the same time a train leaves Anchorage going 35 mph. If the distance between Fairbanks and Anchorage is 325 miles how long after leaving will the trains meet? Give your answer in hours and minutes.
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Question 409162: the average speed of a high-speed train in japan is 162 miles per hour.at this rate,how many miles would a high-speed train travel in 45 minutes?
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