SOLUTION: An airplane flies 5670 miles into the wind for 18 hours. The return trip takes 14 hours. Find the speed of the airplane without a wind and the speed of the wind.

Question 1002556: An airplane flies 5670 miles into the wind for 18 hours. The return trip takes 14 hours. Find the speed of the airplane without a wind and the speed of the wind.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Put the information into a data table and use the basic uniform travel rates rule RT=D.

                     rate      time     distance
INTO WIND            r-w        18       5670
RETURN WITH WIND     r+w        14       5670

Skipping a step,...

This system is well fit for the Elimination Method.

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