SOLUTION: Two airplanes are 6,000 miles apart and their speeds differ by 200mph. They travel toward each other and meet in 5 hours. Find the speed of the slower plane?

Question 899703: Two airplanes are 6,000 miles apart and their speeds differ by 200mph. They travel toward each other and meet in 5 hours. Find the speed of the slower plane?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Think of one plane as not moving and the other
one flying at the sum of their speeds
Let = the speed of the slower plane

the speed of the slower plane is 500 mi/hr
check:

OK

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