- A pilot flies 630 miles with a tail wind (#2646)
A pilot flies 630 miles with a tail wind of 35 miles per hour. Against the wind, he flies only 455 miles in the same amount of ...
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- A software development company is getting ready (#3053)
A software development company is getting ready to release a new product. The QA Director is notified the following: A Junior Verification Engineer takes 1 hour longer to fix a bug than it takes a Senior Engineer. If they can fix the bug in 5 hours working ...
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- Bob, driving a new Ford (#200)
Bob, driving a new Ford, travels 330 miles in the same amount of time it takes John, driving and old Chevy and traveling 10 miles per hour faster, to travel 390 ...
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- Flex drove 800 miles in x hours (#832)
Flex drove 800 miles in x hours on Monday
a) write a rational expression for his average speed.
b) On tuesday he drove for 6 hours at the same average ...
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- If a certain number is added to both the numerator and denominator (#2663)
If a certain number is added to both the numerator and denominator to the fraction 7/9, the result is 5/7...
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- Sally can paint a house in 4 hours (#1790)
Sally can paint a house in 4 hours. John can paint the same house in 6 ...
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- Shelly can paint a fence in 8 hours (#2107)
Shelly can paint a fence in 8 hours. Karen can do it in 4 ...
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- Two taps turned on together (#1286)
Two taps turned on together can fill a tank in 15 mins. Separately, one tap takes 16mins longer than the other tap to fill the ...
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