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Question 438750: How long will it take for a train to travel 348 miles?

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Question 438790: the average(mean) of two numbers is A. If one number is x, what is the other number written as an mathematical expression of A and x
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Question 438789: two cars leave the same location at 2.p.m . if one car travels north at the rate of 30 mphs and the other car travels east at the rate of 40 mph. how many miles apart are the two cars at 4 p.m.
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Question 438784: When a ball is thrown upward at a speed of 19m/s, its height s above the ground (in meters) after t seconds is given by the formula
s=19t-24.01t
find the height of the ball after 3 seconds
I just can't figure out how to solve
Kim
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Question 438915: An airplane travels 1200 miles in 180 minutes. What is the average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 438899: how long is 5 miles in time in a car
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Question 438953:
Tara drove 3 hours on the freeway, then decreased her speed by 20 miles per hour and drove 4 more hours on a country road. If her total trip was 375 miles, what was her speed on the freeway ?
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Question 439044: Trains A and B are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. Train A is traveling at 40 miles per hour and train B is traveling at 48 miles per hour. Train A passes a station at 12:20 PM. If train B passes the same station at 12:35 PM, at what time will train B catch up to train A?
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Question 439132: A=1/2h(b1+b2) solve for h
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Question 439228: In a 16 km cross-country ski race Brett skied the first 7 km at a constant speed and then increased his speed by 3 km/h for the last 9 km. If he finished the entire race in 1 hour and 20 minutes, what was his speed for the first 7 km?
my teacher gave me the answer 10.5 km/hr but i cant set it up right. i know that d = r X t but for some reason when i set up the problem i get a different answer everytime and its never the right one. thanks for your help!
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Question 439292: A college crew team can maintain a speed equivalent to 15 km/hr in still water. If it takes the team 50 minutes to row 6 km upstream and back, what is the rate of the current in the river?
my teacher gave me the answer 3km/hr but i cant figure out how to set it up. could you also explain as you go through? thank you very much :D
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Question 439335: What is the speed of a plane traveling 1.530 kilometers in 2 hours and 45 minutes?

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Question 439253: A driver averaged 49 miles per hour and took 6 hours to travel between two cities. What is the distance between the two cities?
Thank you!
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Question 439297: A car went 70 miles in 4 hours. If it continues going the same speed how long will it take to go 175 miles?
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Question 439297: A car went 70 miles in 4 hours. If it continues going the same speed how long will it take to go 175 miles?
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Question 439375: if i am driving 55 mph and have to drive 406 miles how long will it take to get to the end? ..... i am not trying to cheat on a test or anything just cannot figure it out if at all possible can you give me the formula to solve that by myself thank you have a good day i have to make that trip on the 30th of this month (april 2011) so please let me know soon thanks
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Question 439366: A car travels at an average speed of miles 56 per hour. How long does it take to travel 182 miles?
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Question 439413: Two trains leave the station at the same time, one heading west and the other east. THe westbound train travels 14 miles per hour faster than the eastbound train. If the two trains are 760 miles apart after 4 hours, what is the rate of the westbound train?
DO NOT ROUND
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Question 439448: if a man travels to his friends house at 100km/h and arives with in a hour. his wife travels at 120km/h,how fast will she get there

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Question 439442: if someone is travelling at 75mph and another person was travelling at 80mph 5 miles behind the other how long will it take the other person the catch up with the other
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Question 439527: An express and local train leave GraysLake at 3 P.M. and head for Chicago 50 miles away. The express travels twice as fast as the local and arrives 1 hour ahead of the local. Find the speed of each train.
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Question 439630: If 4x + 10 = 34, then x - 4 =
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Question 439637: Two runners jog around an oval track at constant rates, but in opposite directions.one runner completes a lap in 10 min and the other in 12 min. How many minutes elapse between consecutive meetings of the runners (expressed as mixed number)
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Question 439668: Alex jogged 8 miles due north, then turned due west and jogged 6 more miles.
How many miles is Alex from his starting point? (shortest distance)

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Question 439572: Erica flys her plane 200 mi against the wind in the same time it takes her to fly 300 mi with the wind. If the wind blows at 30mph what is the speed of the plane in still air?
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Question 439747: A rectangle has 200 feet of fencing with which to enclose two adjacent rectangle corrals. What dimensions should be used so the enclosed area will be a maximum? what is the maximum area?
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Question 439753: how long does it take to drive 245 miles at 70 miles per hour

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Question 439763: two cyclist start at the same time and travel toward the same direction. at the end of two hours, they are 50 meters APART . if the speed of the cyclist is twice of that the slower one , how fast did each travel?
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Question 439797: if a plane leaves at 200 miles per hour at 7 am then three hours later a jet leaves at 500 mph how long does it take for the jet to reach the plane?
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Question 439837: Hal rides 6 hours total on a bicycle trip into the country and back. He rode out at the rate of 19 mph and returned at the rate of 25 mph. How far into the country did Hal ride (round to the nearest hundredth)?

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Question 439915: please help me solve this word problem: a plane flies 450 miles with the wind and 330 miles against the wind in the same lenghth of time. If the speed of the wind is 20 mph, what is the speed of the plane in still air ?
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Question 440018: Jane and Mary are 12 miles apart hiking toward each other. How long will it take them to meet if Jane walks at 3mph and Mary walks 1 mph faster than Jane?
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Question 440061: The Amtrak auto train travels nonstop from lorton, Virginia to sanford, Florida. June wishes to bring two cars down to Florida for the winter, so she decides to send one by auto train and drive the other one down. The train travels 600 kilometers in the time it takes June to drive 400 kilometers. If the average speed of the train is 40 kilometers faster than the speed of junes car, find the speeds of the train and car.
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Question 440188: Traveling at a rate of speed of 70 miles per hour. Traveling 125 miles what is my expected arrival time equal
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Question 440233: An airplane flying headwind travels the 1800 mile flying distance between two cities in 3 hours and 36 minutes. One the return flight, the distance is traveled in 3 hours. Find the air speed of the plane and the speed of the wind, assuming that both remain constant.
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Question 440250: Two planes leave Pittsburgh and Philadelphia at the same time, each going to the other city. One plane flies 25 miles per hour faster than the other. find the air speed of each plane if the cities are 275 miles apart and the planes pass one another after 40 minutes of flying time.
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Question 440341: tom and latoya take turns cleaning the kitchen after dinner. When tom cleans, he finishes the job in 24min. Latoya cleans the kitchen in 30 min. how long would it take the two of them, working, together, to clean the kitchen?
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Question 440406: A diver is standing on a platform 24 ft above the pool. He jumps from the platform with an initial upward velocity of 8 ft/s. How long will it take for him to hit the water.
Thank YOU.
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Question 440438: How many minutes will it take to travel 1/2 mile going 50 miles per hour?
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Question 440451: If you are going 40 MPH how many miles would you drive in one hour?
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Question 440440: plane flies 490 mi. with the wind and 350 mi. agaisnt the wind in the same length of time. speed of wind 22 mph, what is speed of plane in still air?
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Question 440475: two hikers on a stright trail are 22 miles apart and walking toward each other. After 4 hours they meet. If one hiker walks 2 miles per hour slower than the other hiker, find both walking speeds.
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Question 440674: two cars leave an intersection. One car travela north the other east. When the car traveling north had gone 9 mi, the distance between the cars was 3 mi more than the distance traveled by the car heading east. How far had the eastbond car travled?
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