SOLUTION: A plane has a speed of 300 miles per hr in still.air. the plane travels a distance of 680 mules with a tail wind in the same time it takes to travel 520 miles into a headwind. Find

Question 1112102: A plane has a speed of 300 miles per hr in still.air. the plane travels a distance of 680 mules with a tail wind in the same time it takes to travel 520 miles into a headwind. Find the speed of the wind

Answer by ikleyn(52914) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Your basic equation is


 = 


to find "v", the speed of wind.


Answer.  It is 40 miles per hour.

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    - Wind and Current problems
    - Wind and Current problems solvable by quadratic equations
    - Selected problems from the archive on a plane flying with and against the wind
in this site.

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The referred lessons are the part of this textbook under the section "Word problems", the topic "Travel and Distance problems".

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