SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem : Two plans travel at right angels to each other after leaving the same airport at the same time . One hour later they are 260 miles apart .If one

Question 1075691: Please help me solve this problem : Two plans travel at right angels to each other after leaving the same airport at the same time . One hour later they are 260 miles apart .If one travels 140 miles per
hour faster than the other .What is the rate of each ?

Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = time in hrs the planes have been flying
Let = the rate in mi/hr of the slower plane
= the rate in mi/hr of the faster plane
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and

Their rates are:
100 mi/hr and
240 mi/hr
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check:

OK

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