document.write( "Question 943843: AIRSPEED It takes a private airplane 8.75 hours to make the
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It takes a private airplane 8.75 hours to make the
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\n" ); document.write( "Find the 2 groundspeeds, upwind and downwind using
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\n" ); document.write( "You get mi/hr if you divide the miles by the hours.
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\n" ); document.write( "The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2 groundspeeds.
\n" ); document.write( "The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed. \n" ); document.write( "
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