SOLUTION: A plane headed due east is traveling with an airspeed of 280 miles per hour. The wind currents are moving with constant speed in the direction 240�. If the ground speed of the plan

Question 1017785: A plane headed due east is traveling with an airspeed of 280 miles per hour. The wind currents are moving with constant speed in the direction 240�. If the ground speed of the plane is 140 miles per hour, what is its true course?
I tried drawing it out and finding the angles, so i can use the laws of cosine or sine, but once i did that it was wrong.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A plane headed due east is traveling with an airspeed of 280 miles per hour. The wind currents are moving with constant speed in the direction 240�. If the ground speed of the plane is 140 miles per hour, what is its true course?
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It's not possible get a groundspeed of 140 with the given data.
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