SOLUTION: Two airplanes begin 1000 miles apart and fly along lines that intersect at a right angle. One plane flies an average of 100 MPH faster than the other. If the planes meet after 2 ho

Question 232482: Two airplanes begin 1000 miles apart and fly along lines that intersect at a right angle. One plane flies an average of 100 MPH faster than the other. If the planes meet after 2 hours, how fast do the airplanes fly?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Two airplanes begin 1000 miles apart and fly along lines that intersect at a right angle.
One plane flies an average of 100 MPH faster than the other.
If the planes meet after 2 hours, how fast do the airplanes fly?
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the distance between the planes represent the hypotenuse of the right triangle
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Let s = speed of the slower plane
then
(s+100) = speed of the faster plane
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The distance to the intersection can we written:
2s for the slower plane; one leg of the right triangle
2(s+100) for the faster which is: (2s + 200); the other leg of the right triangle
;
(2s)^2 + (2s+200)^2 = 1000^2
:
4s^2 + (4s^2 + 800s + 40000) = 1000000
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8s^2 + 800s + 40000 - 1000000 = 0
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8s^2 + 800s - 960000 = 0
Simplify divide by 8
s^2 + 100s - 120000 = 0
Factor this to
(s - 300)(s + 400) = 0
Positive solution
s = 300 mph is the slow plane
and
300 + 100 = 400 mph is the fast plane
:
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Check this using a^2 + b^2 = c^2
600^2 + 800^2 = 1000^2
360000 + 640000 = 1000000
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