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The first step in a distance, rate and time problem, after reading it, is to:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the same-distance casesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the motion wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the speed numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the motion wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Equal or added distancesRead the answer and worked solution →Sort rate, time and distanceRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Motion bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Pete can paint a room in 10 hours. Working steadily, how much of the room does he paint in one hour?Read the answer and worked solution →Alicia would take 8 hours to paint the same room alone. Her share of the job in one hour is:Read the answer and worked solution →Pete needs 10 hours and Alicia 8 hours for the same room. Together their hourly share of the job is:Read the answer and worked solution →One gardener mows a golf course in 4 hours and another takes 6 hours. Together they finish in:Read the answer and worked solution →Carrie can weed the garden in 7 hours and her mother in 3 hours. Together they take:Read the answer and worked solution →Tom paints the den in 45 minutes and Bobby in 60 minutes. Together they need about:Read the answer and worked solution →A job on Press #1 takes 6 hours. In one hour that press completes:Read the answer and worked solution →With both presses running the job takes 4 hours. Press #1 alone takes 6 hours, so Press #2 alone takes:Read the answer and worked solution →Corey shovels the snow in 4 hours. With his twin Casey they finish in 2 hours, so Casey alone would take:Read the answer and worked solution →Two workers finish a job in exactly the same time each. If one alone takes 8 hours, together they take:Read the answer and worked solution →Judy pilots her powerboat 5 miles into a 7 mph wind in the time she covers 12 miles with a 7 mph tailwind. Her boat's own speed is:Read the answer and worked solution →Hamilton rides 12 miles downhill, then back uphill at 8 mph slower, taking 2 hours longer. His downhill speed is:Read the answer and worked solution →Tony drives 4 hours in all, 208 miles on the interstate and 40 on country roads, going 15 mph faster on the interstate. His country road speed is:Read the answer and worked solution →A plane's ground speed with a tailwind of 30 mph, if the plane itself flies at 150 mph, is:Read the answer and worked solution →In work problems, the parts of the job done by each worker in one hour add up to:Read the answer and worked solution →Converting two fifths of an hour into minutes gives:Read the answer and worked solution →A worker finishing in 5 hours and another in 20 hours together do what share of the job each hour?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the work ratesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the faster finishersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the rate gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the rate wordsRead the answer and worked solution →

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The first step in a distance, rate and time problem, after reading it, is to:

  1. Guess the answer
  2. Divide by sixty
  3. Square the rate
  4. Draw a diagram
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Correct answer: D. Draw a diagram

1. A sketch shows what is happening. 2. Then build a table of rate, time and distance. 3. That organises the information. _Source: OpenStax Elementary Algebra 2e, Chapter 3, Uniform Motion Applications (CC BY 4.0)._

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Catch the same-distance cases

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Two trains
  2. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Walk or bike
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Two buses
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Same route
  5. Matches the category
    No
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    Meet midway
  6. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Two trucks
  7. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Charlie Violet
  8. Matches the category
    No
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    Drive apart
Category
Same distance
Instructions
Catch the trips where both travellers cover the same distance. Let the meeting trips fall.
_Source: OpenStax Elementary Algebra 2e, Chapter 3, Uniform Motion Applications (CC BY 4.0)._

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Pop the motion words

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Other terms
  1. Triangle
  2. Perimeter
  3. Vertex
  4. Area
Matching terms
  1. Rate
  2. Time
  3. Distance
  4. mph
  5. Hours
  6. Diagram
Instructions
Pop the words used in distance, rate and time problems. Leave the geometry words.
_Source: OpenStax Elementary Algebra 2e, Chapter 3, Uniform Motion Applications (CC BY 4.0)._

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