document.write( "Question 1197567: An airplane averages 150 mph. If a trip from Atlanta to Charleston takes 2 hours 48 minutes going against the wind, and 2 hours on on the return flight going with the wind, what is the speed of the wind \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #830908 by ikleyn(52787)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! .\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The solution by @josgarithmetic is conceptually TOTALLY wrong.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "It is wrong, since this airplane averages 150 mph in STILL AIR \n" ); document.write( "(the part of the condition, which is \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Again : 150 mph is the average speed of the plane in STILL AIR, \n" ); document.write( "but NOT IN THIS round trip: 150 mph relates to TOTALLY DIFFERENT conception.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " The post itself has a HUGE DEFICIENCY: it missed \r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " to determine correctly all the participating values/conditions.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Taking it into the consideration, the problem, as it is worded in the post,\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "is ambiguous, which is not allowed for Math problems.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Therefore, my advise to the visitor is to throw this \" problem \" to the closest garbage bin\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "and to \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " Each correct mathematical problem is a piece of art.\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " What is not piece of art - is not a correct mathematical problem.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Exactly as the wife of an emperor should be beyond suspicions,\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "every Math problem must be ideally and absolutely correct - always.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |