SOLUTION: An airplane travels at a constant rate. Flying with the wind, it takes 3.3 hours to travel 1980 miles. It takes 5 hours going against the wind. If there was no wind, how fast would
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Question 1046352: An airplane travels at a constant rate. Flying with the wind, it takes 3.3 hours to travel 1980 miles. It takes 5 hours going against the wind. If there was no wind, how fast would the airplane be flying?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the speed of the plane and 
represent the speed of the wind.
\ =\ 1980)
\ =\ 1980)
Solve for
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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