SOLUTION: A jet travels 4494 miles against the wind in 6 hours and 4975 miles in the same amount of time with the wind. What is the rate of the jet in still air and what is the rate of the w
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Question 585380: A jet travels 4494 miles against the wind in 6 hours and 4975 miles in the same amount of time with the wind. What is the rate of the jet in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the 2 groundspeeds, upwind and downwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average.
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The windspeed is the difference between groundspeed and airspeed.
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