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document.write( "A private jet flies the same distance in 15 hours that a commercial jet flies in 10 hours. If the speed of the commercial jet was 98mph less than 2 times the speed of the private jet, find the speed of each jet. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "the speed of the private jet be x mph<BR>\n" );
document.write( "the speed of commercial jet = 2x-98<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Distance same=y<BR>\n" );
document.write( "y/x=15<BR>\n" );
document.write( "y=15x\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "y/(2x-98)=10 <BR>\n" );
document.write( "15x/(2x-98)=10\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "15x = 10(2x-98)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "15x = 20x -980\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "5x=980\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x= 196 speed of private jet\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "speed of commercial jet = 2x-98 <BR>\n" );
document.write( "2*196-98\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "392-98= 294 mph speed of commercial jet\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "196*15=2940<BR>\n" );
document.write( "294*10 = 2940\r<BR>\n" );
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