SOLUTION: In a flight of 6000 km,an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather.Its average speed for the trip was reduced by 400km/h and the time increased by 30 min. Find the original dur
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Question 621393: In a flight of 6000 km,an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather.Its average speed for the trip was reduced by 400km/h and the time increased by 30 min. Find the original duration of flight
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In a flight of 6000 km,an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather.
Its average speed for the trip was reduced by 400km/h and the time increased by 30 min.
Find the original duration of flight
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Weather has to be real bad to slow the plane down 400 km/hr, anyway:
:
Let s = original effective speed
then
(s-400) = speed in bad weather
:
Write a time equation; time = dist/speed
Bad weather time - normal time = 1/2 hr
- = .5
multiply by s(s-400) to clear the denominators; results:
6000s - 6000(s-400) = .5s(s-400)
6000s - 6000s + 2400000 = .5s^2 - 200s
A quadratic equation
.5s^2 - 200s - 2400000
solve this using the quadratic formula
You should get a positive solution of:
s = 2400 km/hr is the normal speed
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Find the duration of the flight
6000/2400 = 2.5 hrs
Check this by find the duration when speed reduced by 400 km/hr
6000/2000 = 3 hrs, a half hour longer
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