SOLUTION: A plane with a tail wind make a 650 mile trip in one hour. It would take 2 hours to make the return trip against the same wind. Find the rate of the plane in the still air.
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Question 1024235: A plane with a tail wind make a 650 mile trip in one hour. It would take 2 hours to make the return trip against the same wind. Find the rate of the plane in the still air.
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A plane with a tail wind make a 650 mile trip in one hour. It would take 2 hours to make the return trip against the same wind. Find the rate of the plane in the still air.
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Find the 2 groundspeeds upwind & downwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
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