SOLUTION: A traveler is walking on a moving walkway in an airport. The traveler must walk back on the walkway to get a bag he forgot. The traveler's ground speed is 2 ft/s against the walkwa

Question 705385: A traveler is walking on a moving walkway in an airport. The traveler must walk back on the walkway to get a bag he forgot. The traveler's ground speed is 2 ft/s against the walkway and 6 ft/s with the walkway. What is the traveler's speed off the walkway? What is the speed of the moving walkway?

Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
= traveler's speed in ft/sec
= walkway's speed in ft/sec
given:

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Add the equations

and

The traveler's speed off the walkway is 4 ft/sec
The speed of the moving walkway is 2 ft/sec

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