SOLUTION: An airplane travels 1200 miles from san francisco to hawaii in 8 hours against the wind. On it's return trip, wit the wind, it takes only 6 hours. Find the rate of the airplane wit
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Question 883300: An airplane travels 1200 miles from san francisco to hawaii in 8 hours against the wind. On it's return trip, wit the wind, it takes only 6 hours. Find the rate of the airplane with no wind. Find the rate of the wind.
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Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the 2 groundspeeds using
d = r*t
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The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2 groundspeeds.
The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.
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PS it's = it is
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