SOLUTION: An airplane flying with the wind can cover a certain distance in 2 hours. The return trip against the wind takes 3 hours 36 minutes. How fast is the plane and what is the speed o

Question 957935: An airplane flying with the wind can cover a certain distance in 2 hours. The return trip against the wind takes 3 hours 36 minutes. How fast is the plane and what is the speed of the wind, if one-way distance is 1800 miles.
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An airplane flying with the wind can cover a certain distance in 2 hours. The return trip against the wind takes 3 hours 36 minutes. How fast is the plane and what is the speed of the wind, if one-way distance is 1800 miles.
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Find the 2 groundspeeds, downwind and upwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
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Windspeed is the difference between groundspeed and airspeed.

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