SOLUTION: Air Travel An airplane flew for 4 hr with a 20-mph tailwind. the return flight against the same wind took 5 hr. Find the speed of the plane in still air d + r (t)

Question 152958: Air Travel
An airplane flew for 4 hr with a 20-mph tailwind. the return flight against the same wind took 5 hr. Find the speed of the plane in still air
d + r (t)

distance rate time
with wind r + 20
d

Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
d=rt
rt=rt because the distance is the same coming and going.
Let r be the speed in still air.
4(r+20)=5(r-20)
4r+80=5r-100
-r=-180
r=180 mph
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Ed
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