SOLUTION: Solve and verify your answer. A plane can fly 300 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 140 miles. If the car travels 80 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of th

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Question 1130448: Solve and verify your answer.
A plane can fly 300 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 140 miles. If the car travels 80 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane.

Answer by ikleyn(52831)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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ANSWER.  The plane speed is  p = 150 miles per hour.



CHECK.  Left  side of the equation is   = 2.

        Right side of the equation is   = 2.     ! Correct !


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