document.write( "Question 1103580: A light aircraft travels 3 miles per hour less than twice the speed of a van. If the van can travel 122 miles in the same time it takes the aircraft to travel 238 miles, then what is the average speed of each? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let \"r\" be the speed of the van.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the speed of the aircraft is 2r-3 miles per hour.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Your \"time\" equation is\r\n" );
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document.write( " = .    (Each side is the time of the corresponding travel)\r\n" );
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document.write( "Solve for \"r\". Your first step is to make multi-cross multiplication to rid off the denominator.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The rest is easy.\r\n" );
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