SOLUTION: a trip to a nearby island takes 3 hours by boat and half an hour by airplane. How many times as fast as the boat is the plane?
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Question 1089105: a trip to a nearby island takes 3 hours by boat and half an hour by airplane. How many times as fast as the boat is the plane?
Answer by ikleyn(52905) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The speed of the plane is 6 times the speed of the boat.
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