SOLUTION: A plane flies into the wind (against the wind current) for 3.5 hours for a distance of 1,260 miles. The return trip with a tailwind (with the wind current) only takes 3 hours. Find

Question 1127565: A plane flies into the wind (against the wind current) for 3.5 hours for a distance of 1,260 miles. The return trip with a tailwind (with the wind current) only takes 3 hours. Find the average speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind current.
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39799) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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---------speed of wind

--------speed of plane in absence of wind
Answer by MathTherapy(10810) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

A plane flies into the wind (against the wind current) for 3.5 hours for a distance of 1,260 miles. The return trip with a tailwind (with the wind current) only takes 3 hours. Find the average speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind current.

Let the speed of the plane, in still air, and the speed of the wind, be S and W, respectively
Then we get the following TIME equations:
2S = 780 ------- Adding eqs (ii) & (i)
S, or speed, in still air =
W, or windspeed:
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