document.write( "Question 371399: a plane can travel 480 miles with the wind in two hours. It takes about 3 hours to travel the same distance against the wind. How fast can the plane go and how fast is the wind?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "Let the plane speed be \"P\" and the wind speed by \"W\".
\n" ); document.write( "With the wind,
\n" ); document.write( "\"%28P%2BW%292=480\"
\n" ); document.write( "1.\"P%2BW=240\"
\n" ); document.write( "Against the wind,
\n" ); document.write( "\"%28P-W%293=480\"
\n" ); document.write( "2.\"P-W=160\"
\n" ); document.write( "Add eq. 1 and eq. 2,
\n" ); document.write( "\"P%2BW%2BP-W=240%2B160\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"2P=400\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight%28P=200%29\"mph
\n" ); document.write( "Then from eq. 1,
\n" ); document.write( "\"200%2BW=240\"
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