SOLUTION: A plane leaves Toronto for Montreal. The cities are 500 km apart. During the trip there is a tail wind and it takes 2
ours The return trip against the same wind takes 2.5 hours. W
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Question 1190892: A plane leaves Toronto for Montreal. The cities are 500 km apart. During the trip there is a tail wind and it takes 2
ours The return trip against the same wind takes 2.5 hours. What is the average speed of the plane? What is the
verage speed of the wind?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A plane leaves Toronto for Montreal. The cities are 500 km apart. During the trip there is a tail wind and it takes 2
ours The return trip against the same wind takes 2.5 hours. What is the average speed of the plane? What is the
verage speed of the wind?
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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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