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Bob can build a house in 3 days. Gary can build a house in 5 days. How long does it take them to build a house together?
If an airplane is flying 225mph about how long will it take the plane to go 600 miles?
If an object takes 10 minutes to go 3 miles, how fast is the object going?
If a car travels 60 mph for 2 hours, 55 mph for 1.5 hours and 30 mph for 45 minutes, how far has the car traveled?
Two electric cars begin moving on circular tracks at exactly 1:00pm. If the first car takes 30 minutes to complete a loop and the second car takes 40 minutes, what is the next time they will both be at the starting point?
Two brothers, Jake and Fred, have a pool in which 9 laps is 1 mile. Jake swims 2 laps in 1 minute, and Fred swims 4 laps in 1 minute. How far has Jake swum when Fred has finished swimming 2 miles?
Every 3 minutes, 4 liters of water are poured into a 2,000-liter tank. After 4 hours, what percent of the tank is full?
Laura owns a large property. Her lawn is rectangular. It is 500 meters long, and 350 meters wide. If Laura mows the lawn at a rate of 20,000 meters squared per hour, how many hours will it take Laura to finish mowing the lawn?
Car X used 4 gallons of gas in one week, and gets 10 miles to the gallon. If car Y went the same number of miles but only gets 8 miles to the gallon, how much gas did car Y use?
A water tank holds 500 gallons of water. There is a hole in the tank that leaks out the water at rate of 100 mL/min. In how many days will the water tank contain only half of the water it holds originally? Note: 1 gallon = 3.785 L