SOLUTION: Flying with the wind, a small plane flew 360 mi in 2 h. Against the wind, the plane could fly only 330 mi in the same amount of time. Find the rate of the plane in calm air and the

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Question 1054325: Flying with the wind, a small plane flew 360 mi in 2 h. Against the wind, the plane could fly only 330 mi in the same amount of time. Find the rate of the plane in calm air and the rate of the wind
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Flying with the wind, a small plane flew 360 mi in 2 h. Against the wind, the plane could fly only 330 mi in the same amount of time. Find the rate of the plane in calm air and the rate of the wind
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It's called airspeed.
It's the average of the 2 groundspeeds.
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Windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.