SOLUTION: a plane traveled 4344 miles with the wind in 8 hours and 3768 miles against the wind in the same amount of time . find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of wind

Question 933572: a plane traveled 4344 miles with the wind in 8 hours and 3768 miles against the wind in the same amount of time . find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of wind
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a plane traveled 4344 miles with the wind in 8 hours and 3768 miles against the wind in the same amount of time . find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of wind
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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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