SOLUTION: As shown in the video, the flight from Seattle to New York, with a tailwind, takes 5 hrs 15 min, and the return flight take 6 hrs 35 minutes. Since the flight time includes time to

Question 1186167: As shown in the video, the flight from Seattle to New York, with a tailwind, takes 5 hrs 15 min, and the return flight take 6 hrs 35 minutes. Since the flight time includes time to taxi from and to the gate, we should subtract 45 minutes from each time to account for this. Not shown, I was able to find out the plane was scheduled to fly a 2319 mile flight path. Assuming the plane and wind speeds are constant during both flights, estimate the wind speed, to 1 decimal place.

Answer by ikleyn(52855) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Similar problems (TWIN problems) were posted to this forum and solved several times several years ago.

See these links

https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Trigonometry-basics/Trigonometry-basics.faq.question.1150597.html

https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Trigonometry-basics/Trigonometry-basics.faq.question.1140079.html

https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Trigonometry-basics/Trigonometry-basics.faq.question.1149885.html

Having these TEMPLATES, you can easily solve the current problem.

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Reading the problem, you may think that it is somebodies' personal message.

It is not so : these problems are generated by adapting one single number: the length of the flight path
from Seattle to New York, which is the only parameter changing from one problem to another.

( . . . Notice that the words and other numbers were NEVER changed . . . )

So, if you know how to solve one such problem, you just know everything, and there is nothing new to learn.

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