A car can travel from city A to city B in 8 hours. If its speed during the return journey was decreased by 7 mph, it would take 9 hours to get back to city A. How far apart are the two cities?

A car travels from city A to city B in 12 hours. It then travels from city B to city C at the same speed, in 8 hours. If the car was traveling 5 mph faster, it would have traveled from city A to city B in 10 hours.  What is the distance from city B to city C?

I have four books, each with n pages, and I can read them all in four hours.

I have four more books, each with each 120 fewer pages than my original four books. I can read them all in three hours.

I have five more books, each with 120 more pages than my original four books. How long would it take me to read all five books?

A clock adjusts its timing each night by contacting a satellite at 2:00 AM to find out the official standard time. Since it has a mechanical action with physical minute, second and hour hands, if the clock finds out it is out of sync, it will move at 12 times normal speed in order to "catch up" with the actual time. (If it is ahead of the correct time, it will still move forward, until it wraps around to the correct time.)

In the fall, when Daylight Savings Time happens, at 2:00 the satellite tells the clock that it is actually 1:00. Thus, the clock has to move forward at high speed until it wraps around to the correct time.

How long will it take the clock to be displaying the correct time again?

Owen can read a 100 page book, which had 500 words per page. It took him 2 hours less time than it takes him to read a 150 page book with 600 words per page. How long would it take him to read a 400 page book which had 400 words per page?