SOLUTION: An airplane averaged 160 miles per hour with the wind and 112 miles per hour against the wind. Determine the speed of the plane and the effect of the wind resistance. Please he

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Question 1025861: An airplane averaged 160 miles per hour with the wind and 112 miles per hour against the wind. Determine the speed of the plane and the effect of the wind resistance.
Please help me with equation! Thanks!
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Let be the airspeed of the plane and be the wind speed.





Solve the 2X2 system for and

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it