SOLUTION: An airplane travels 4340 km against the wind in 7 hours and 5110 km with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the
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Question 887349: An airplane travels 4340 km against the wind in 7 hours and 5110 km with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
find the 2 groundspeeds up and downwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
the windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.
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