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document.write( ": <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Hello, this word problem is from Gold's Math 40\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A Piper Cub airplane has an average air speed that is 10mph faster than a Cessna 150 airplane.  If the combined distance traveled by these two small planes is 690 miles after 3 hours.  What is the average speed of each plane?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cessna 150 DATA:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "rate = x mph; time = 3 hrs; distance = rt = 3x miles<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Piper Cub DATA:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "rate = x+10 mph; time = 3 hrs; distance = rt = 3(x+10) = 3x+30 miles<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "distance + distance = 690 miles<BR>\n" );
document.write( "3x + 3x+30 = 690<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6x = 660<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x= 110 mph (speed of the Cessna)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x+10 = 120 mph (speed of the Piper Cub)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3x + <BR>\n" );
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