SOLUTION: a small plane can fly 600 miles with the wind in 3 hours. on the return, flying against the wind the same distance is traveled in 4 hours. find the speed of the plane in calm air a
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Question 1113476: a small plane can fly 600 miles with the wind in 3 hours. on the return, flying against the wind the same distance is traveled in 4 hours. find the speed of the plane in calm air and the speed of the wind.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the 2 groundspeeds, downwind and upwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
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Windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.
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