SOLUTION: With a tailwind, a plane travels 800 miles in 1 hour 50 minutes. Going against the same wind (a headwind), the 800 mile return trip was 2 hours long. What is the wind speed and the

Question 662771: With a tailwind, a plane travels 800 miles in 1 hour 50 minutes. Going against the same wind (a headwind), the 800 mile return trip was 2 hours long. What is the wind speed and the plane's speed?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
With a tailwind, a plane travels 800 miles in 1 hour 50 minutes. Going against the same wind (a headwind), the 800 mile return trip was 2 hours long. What is the wind speed and the plane's speed?
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Find the 2 groundspeeds, upwind and downwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average.
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The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.

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