SOLUTION: If a plane can travel 500 miles per hour with the wind and 440 miles per hour against the wind, find the speed of the plane without a wind and the speed of the wind? The speed of

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Question 764607: If a plane can travel 500 miles per hour with the wind and 440 miles per hour against the wind, find the speed of the plane without a wind and the speed of the wind?
The speed of the plane in still air is ________ miles per hour.
the sped of the wind is ________miles per hour.

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If a plane can travel 500 miles per hour with the wind and 440 miles per hour against the wind, find the speed of the plane without a wind and the speed of the wind?
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The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2 groundspeeds.