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A cattle train left Miami and traveled toward New York. 14 hours later a diesel train left traveling at 45 km/h in an effort to catch up to the cattle train. After traveling for four hours the diesel train finally caught up. What was the cattle train's average speed?
10 km/h
Fatima’s chemistry lab stocks an 8% acid solution and a 20% acid solution. How many ounces of each must she combine to produce 60 ounces of a mixture that is 10% acid?
50 oz of 8% and 10 oz. of 20%
Jean is six years older than her brother Wayne. Three years from now, the sum of their ages will be thirty-eight. Find their present ages.
Jean is 19 and Wayne is 13
The perimeter of a rectangle is 44 cm and its width is 6 cm longer than its length. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
8 X 14 cm
Three consecutive odd numbers have a sum of 1575. What is the sum of 3 times the largest and half the smallest?
1842.5
Jose traveled to the town hall and back. The trip there took five hours and the trip back took four hours. He averaged 35 km/h on the return trip. Find the average speed of the trip there.
28 km/h
A piggy bank has 40 nickels and dimes. The total amount of money in the bank $2.50. Find the amount of each coin.
30 nickels and 10 dimes
A pewter bowl is 8 years old, and a silver bowl is 22 years old. In how many years will the silver bowl be twice the age of the pewter bowl?
6 years
In a triangle, the second angle is 2 times the measure of the first angle and the third angle is 3 times the measure of the first angle. What are the three angles?
30, 60, and 90 degrees
A train leaves Cleveland heading due west to Boise at 9:30am traveling at 120 mph. A second train leaves Boise heading due east to Cleveland going 100 mph at 11 am. If Boise and Cleveland are 2050 miles apart, what time do the trains cross?
7:30pm
Jimmy drove to his cabin on the lake and back. It took 0.6 hours longer to go there than it did to come back. The average speed on the trip there was 46 km/h. The average speed on the way back was 52 km/h.If Jimmy started his trip at 10:45 am, what time was it when he got back?
3:57 pm
How many pounds of a 15% aluminum alloy must be added to 500 pounds of a 22% alloy to make a 20% alloy?
200 lbs.
Brandon is 9 years older than Ronda. In four years the sum of their ages will be 91. How old are they now?
Ronda is 37 and Brandon is 46
If the area of a circle is 25𝜋 𝑚2 , what is its circumference?
10𝜋 m
Amanda wants to put a decorative border around her kitchen. Her kitchen is rectangular in shape and although she does not remember the exact dimensions, she does remember that the width of the kitchen is 5 feet more than the length.The perimeter of her kitchen is 70 ft. IF she wants to buy new flooring, that costs $2.80 per square foot, how much will she pay for new flooring in her kitchen?
$840
Chelsea left the White House and traveled toward the capital at an average speed of 34 km/h. Jasmine left at the same time and traveled in the opposite direction with an average speed of 65 km/h. Find the number of MINUTES Jasmine needs to travel before they are 59.4 km apart.
36 minutes
The owner of a fruit stand combined cranberry juice that cost $4.60 per gallon with 50 gallons of apple juice that cost $2.24 per gallon. How much cranberry juice was used to make the cranapple juice if the mixture costs $3.00 per gallon. Round to the nearest tenth.
23.8 gallons
Mike is 4 years older than Ron. In two years, the sum of their ages will be 84. How old are they now?
Ron is 38 and Mike is 42
In a quadrilateral, the measure of the second angle is 15° more than the measure of the first angle, the measure of the third angle is 27° more than the measure of the first angle and the measure of the fourth angle is 38° more than the measure of the first angle. What are the angles of the quadrilateral?
70, 85, 97, and 108 degrees
Bob is 15 years younger than Chris. Chris is three years older than Jeff. If five years ago, Bob was half of Chris's age, what is the sum of their ages now?
87
Ryan left the science museum and drove south. Gabriella left three hours later driving 42 km/h faster in an effort to catch up to him. After two hours Gabriella finally caught up. Find Ryan's average speed.
28 km/h
Sean has $3.70 with quarters, nickels and dimes. The number of dimes is one less than the number of nickels, and the number of quarters is 3 less than the number of dimes. How much of each does he have?
12 nickels, 11 dimes, 8 quarters
The sum of the ages of Nicole and Kristin is 32. In two years, Nicole will be three times as old as Kristin. How old are they now?
Nicole is 25 and Kristin is 7
The ratio of the legs of a right triangle is 3 : 4. If the hypotenuse of the triangle is 45 in., what is the perimeter of the triangle?
108 in.
Sean has a pool in his backyard that is 16 X 18 ft. There is a pool deck around all four sides of the pool that is the same distance around. If the perimeter of the pool deck is 102 ft, how wide is the pool deck?
4.25 feet.