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Question 426623: a truck traveling 45 miles a hour and a car traveling 55 miles a hour cover the same distance. The truck travels 4 hours longer than the car. How far did they travel
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Question 426561: A plane is traveling at 270 feet per second. When the plane takes off, the angle of elevation is 17 degrees. How many minutes will it take for it to reach 13,000 feet?
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Question 426673: A barge moves at 7kmh in still waters. If it travels 45 km up stream and 45 km downstream in a total of 14 hours. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 426723: a bicyclist leaves a point and then a car leaves the same point 2 hours later going 12mph faster. After 90 miles the car catches the bicyclist. Find the speed of both the car and the bicyclist.
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Question 426859: How far does a plane fly in three hours and thirty minutes going 1000km/hr
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Question 426904: I need to know how to calculate the following:
If I traveled 92 miles in 104 minutes, what is my average speed?
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Question 426915: Nestor finished a 42-kilometer race in 1 hour and 45 minutes. What was his average speed in kilometers per hour?
Please explain how to get the answer.
Thanks, Sparrow
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Question 426858: A person traveling 4 hours by plane and 25 hours by ship covers 1580 miles. If the speed of the plane had been one-half of the actual speed and the speed of the ship had been 0ne-fourth greater, the person would have traveled only 1315 miles in the same length of time. What is the speed of the plane and the ship?
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Question 427046: Hello, My question is:
"The H.M.S. Dreadnaught is 10 miles north of Montauk and steaming due north at 15 miles/hour, while the U.S.S. Mona Lisa is 70 miles east of Montauk and steaming due east at an even 40 miles/hour. How fast is their distance apart increasing?"
I know that will be the sum of miles that they are
(10*15) + (70*40) = 2950
But, I don't the rest. I think it will be divided by something, but I don't know what. I'm stuck on that question. Can you please help me on that?
Thanks,
Cristian
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Question 427204: This may seem like a crazy question, but every book I have consulted gives a vague answer, I am a teacher and this these questions are not in my area of expertise, I have asked several other people for suggestions including math teachers and everyone is stumped. I would like to be able to explain this to my students clearly:
When solvinga problem of distance involving 2 vehicles,where is the beginning and ending point to measure on the vechile in order to figure out how many miles they went? DO you start to measure at the back end of the vehicle and end at the beginning of it? Do you measure them front to front or what? Thank you so much for your help.....Inquiring minds want to know.
This can be printed if you want. "T"
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Question 427291: a train moving at a constant speed travels 180 miles in 4 hours. how far does the train travel in 7 hours?
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Question 427284: A hiker begins a 25 km(point B) hike from point A at 7am travelling at a rate of 4km per hour. At 9:30, a bike rider leaves point B travelling at a rate of 16 km per hour. What time will the hiker and biker cross paths (meet)? At what kilometer will they meet?
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Question 426820: A boat goes upstream 600 m, moving 30 m/min through the water. The boat travels back downstream to the starting point, this time only going 20 m/min through the water. The total time spent is 75 minutes. How fast was the current flowing?
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Question 427315: I need to find how long it takes to travel 158km at a speed of 100km per hour. I also need to show how I worked this out.
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Question 427401: a car travels 300 km in 6 hours what is the average speed of the car in km/hr??
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Question 427401: a car travels 300 km in 6 hours what is the average speed of the car in km/hr??
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Question 427404: Jessie and Philip are on opposite side of a road that is 5 miles long. Jessie is walking toward Philip at 4mph and Philip is riding his bike at 6mph toward Jessie. In how many minutes will they meet each other?
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Question 427505: After robbing the ban in Yuma City, the Dalton brothers galloped away at 24km/h. Fifteen minutes later the posse left at 28 km/h. How long did it take the posse to overtake the Daltons?
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Question 427609: a biker can travel at a speed of x km/h over a distance of 15km. if the biker reduces his speed by 2km/h he will only manage to travel 10km for the same time Calculate x
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Question 427615: a car travels at 30mph how far does it travel in 5 hours?
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Question 427544: the speed of a stream is 3 mph. A boat travels 3 miles upstream in the same time it takes to travel 9 miles downstream. What is the speed of the boat in still water?

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Question 427724: Suzette must commute a total of 34 miles to work. She first drives her car 10 miles to the train station and then rides the train the rest of the way to work. The average speed of the train is 15 mi/h faster than the average speed of Suzette's car.
a) Express the time Suzette spends driving and the time she spends on the train as rational expressions
b) It takes Suzette a total of 1 hour to get to work. Write and solve an equation to find the average speed of Suzette's car.
c) does Suzetter spend a greater amount of time driving or on the train? explain
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Question 427802: swimming with the current for 36 minutes, i traveled 1.5 miles. Swimming back to where i started against the current it took 1 hour. what is the rate at which i swam in still water? What is the rate of the current?
----- i cannot figure out how to start this problem.
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Question 427726: Jake has a Car with an 8-Gallon fuel tank. Jake fills his tank with gas and then drives 60 miles to a friend's house. when he gets to his friend's house he has 6 gallons left in his fuel tank. how many miles can jake travel on a full tank of gas?
I have tried it several ways:
8*60
and
6*60/2
but i'm sure that those wont give me the full tank amount.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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Question 428032: A pilot flies 500 miles against a
20-mile-per-hour wind. On the next day, the pilot
flies back home with a 10-mile-per-hour tail wind.
The total trip (both ways) takes 4 hours. Find the
speed of the airplane without a wind.
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Question 428048: If you walking on a one mile road for one hour and eight seconds how many miles is that
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Question 428027: An airplane flew for 6 hours at a speed of 455 miles per hour and then
for 5 more hours at a speed of x miles per hour. The average speed of
the airplane was 495 miles per hour. Write an equation that could be
used to find x.
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Question 428137: A ship was traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. It traveled 1,700 kilometers at a rate of 40 kilometers per hour. How long did it take the ship to travel this distance?

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Question 428243: Two motorbikes leave Atlanta, Georgia at the same time, one traveling north at the speed of 50 miles per hour and the other south at a rate of 55 miles per hour. After how many hours will they be 420 miles apart?

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Question 428269: Two automobiles leave the same location traveling in opposite directions. The blue car travels x mph; the red car travels y mph. How long will it be before the cars are 200 miles apart, if the red car is traveling 10 mph slower?
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Question 428272: A vintage car leaves Des Moines,Iowa traveling at the rate of 45 miles per hour.One hour later a faster car sets out from the same town to overtake the first.At what rate must the faster car travel in order to overtake the first in 5 hours?
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Question 428292: Please help me with this problem! : the length of a rectangular garden is 7ft more than the width. The perimeter is 50 feet. What's the width?
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Question 428315: My wife and I exercise on a running course that is 2.25 miles long. If we both started at the same spot but traveled opppsite directions on the course and she walks 3 mph and I run 6mph, at what point in the course will we meet in distance and in time?
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Question 428498: A van travels 220 miles on 10 gallons of gas. Find how many gallons the van needs to travel 550 miles
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Question 428496: A van travels 220 miles on 10 gallons of gas. Find how many gallons the van needs to travel 550 miles
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Question 428493: Two cars leave towns 750 kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One car's rate is 10 kilometers per hour less than the other's. If they meet in 5 hours, what is the rate of the slower car?
I have no idea how to even start this problem. Is there an equation or what do I do to solve this?
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Question 428531: 4. A small plane flew 600 mi with the wind in 2 hours. Against the wind, it took 3 hours to travel the same distance. Find the rate of the plane in calm air.
a. 250 mph b. 300 mph c. 50 mph d. 200 mph
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Question 428744: Maria runs through the countryside at a rate of 10 mph. She returns along the same route at 6 mph. If the total trip took 1 hr and 36 minutes, how far did she run total?
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Question 428743: Bill can fly 350 miles in 1.5 hours, how far can he travel in 4 hours?
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Question 428929: Please provide formula.
If a plane is flying at a constant of 550 mph for 6 hours and then returns in 5 hours what is the wind speed. The answer is 50 mph. But need formula
Thanks
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Question 428931: A cars tires are moving at 550 revolutions per minute while the car travels at 55mph. What is the radius (in inches) of the wheels?
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Question 428918: A car owner has her tank filled and notices that the odometer reads 14,368.7 kilometers. After a trip in the country, it takes 34.5 liters to fill the tank, and the odometer reads 14,651.6. How many kilometers per liter is this car getting?
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