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Travel and distance problems

One boat, train, bird, person or meteor.

A forty-eight mile trip takes 30 minutes. How long would a seventy-two mile trip take traveling at the same speed?

Joan takes a walk at 4 mph and then gets a ride back at 16 mph. The entire trip took 1/2 an hour. How far did Joan walk?

A twelve mile trip takes 2 hours upstream but only one hour downstream. What is the speed of the current and the boat?

Two boat, train, bird, person or meteor.

Two boats took 3 hours to travel 129 miles in opposite directions. One boat travels 9 mph faster than the other. How far did each boat travel?

A slow train leaving at 5 AM and traveling at 30 mph is overtaken by a fast train leaving at 8 AM traveling at 40 mph. What distance did each travel?

Two meteors start 175,000 miles apart and collide after five minutes. One travels at 2/3 the speed of the other. How far did each travel?