SOLUTION: An airline starts off on a trip with all engines running. It is going at a rate of 900 km per hour, after x hours it shuts down one engine and reduces its speed to 700 km per hour.

Question 64717: An airline starts off on a trip with all engines running. It is going at a rate of 900 km per hour, after x hours it shuts down one engine and reduces its speed to 700 km per hour. The trip is a total of 3 hours long
How lonng should the pilot fly before shutting down one engine in order to go a total distance of 2352 in 3 hours.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The plane should fly 1.26 hrs before shutting down one engine
to go 2352 km in 3 hrs.
check

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