SOLUTION: Two planes leave Chicago - one traveling due east and the other due west. The first travels 100 miles per hour faster than the second. How long will it be until they are 2000 miles

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Question 189995: Two planes leave Chicago - one traveling due east and the other due west. The first travels 100 miles per hour faster than the second. How long will it be until they are 2000 miles apart?
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The planes are flying away from eachother at the speed
of both added together
Let = the speed of the one going west
The one going east will have speed =


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