SOLUTION: With a tailwind, a plane traveled 600 mile in 4 hours. With a headwind, the plane traveled the same distance in 7 hours. Write a system of equations that could be used to solve thi

Question 254739: With a tailwind, a plane traveled 600 mile in 4 hours. With a headwind, the plane traveled the same distance in 7 hours. Write a system of equations that could be used to solve this problem to determine the wind speed?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Rate*Time=Distance
Vp-Velocity of the plane in still air
Vw-Velocity of Wind
With the wind, the velocities add,

Against the wind, the velocities subtract,

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