SOLUTION: Against the wind a commercial airline in South America flew 588 miles in 3.5 hours.With a tailwind the return trip took 3 hours. what was the speed of the plane in still air? what

Question 973035: Against the wind a commercial airline in South America flew 588 miles in 3.5 hours.With a tailwind the return trip took 3 hours. what was the speed of the plane in still air? what was the speed of the wind?
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Against the wind a commercial airline in South America flew 588 miles in 3.5 hours.With a tailwind the return trip took 3 hours. what was the speed of the plane in still air? what was the speed of the wind?
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Find the 2 groundspeeds, upwind and downwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of them.
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The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.

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