SOLUTION: Solve and verify your answer. A plane can fly 295 miles downwind in the same amount of time as it can travel 225 miles upwind. Find the velocity of the wind if the plane can fly

Question 1130456: Solve and verify your answer.
A plane can fly 295 miles downwind in the same amount of time as it can travel 225 miles upwind. Find the velocity of the wind if the plane can fly 260 mph in still air.
Answer by ikleyn(52814) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The "time equation" is 


 = .


Solve for x, which is the wind velocity.



Answer.  The wind velocity is 35 miles per hour.

1 hour each way.

Solved.

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