document.write( "Question 30097: When ace airlines changed to planes that flew 100 km/h faster than its old ones, the time of its 2800 km Dallas-Seattle flight was reduced by 30 minutes. Find the speed of the new planes\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Let the speed be x (orignal)
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "a=0.5, b=50, c=-280000\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Simplfy and you get two solutions:
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