SOLUTION: an air traffic controller sees two aircraft flying at the same altitude on his screen. One, a boeing 747 Jumbo, is headed Eastbound at 375 miles per hour. The other, a UFO, is loca

Question 791001: an air traffic controller sees two aircraft flying at the same altitude on his screen. One, a boeing 747 Jumbo, is headed Eastbound at 375 miles per hour. The other, a UFO, is located 57 miles directly South of the 747, and is directly Northbound at 1750 miles per hour.
Assuming they continue on this flight path, how close (in miles) will the two aircraft come to each other?
Answer by lwsshak3(11628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
an air traffic controller sees two aircraft flying at the same altitude on his screen. One, a boeing 747 Jumbo, is headed Eastbound at 375 miles per hour. The other, a UFO, is located 57 miles directly South of the 747, and is directly Northbound at 1750 miles per hour.
Assuming they continue on this flight path, how close (in miles) will the two aircraft come to each other?
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travel time=distance/rate of speed
Time UFO will be directly in the path of the 747=57/1750 hrs
Distance 747 will have traveled during this time=375*57/1750≈12.21 mi
How close (in miles) will the two aircraft come to each other? 12.21 mi
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