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

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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) About Me  (Show Source):
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Rate*Time=Distance
Vp-Velocity of the plane in still air
Vw-Velocity of Wind
With the wind, the velocities add,
%28Vp%2BVw%29%2A4=600
Against the wind, the velocities subtract,
%28Vp-Vw%29%2A7=600