SOLUTION: A company president flew 1110 miles in a corporate jet but returned in a smaller plane that could fly only half as fast. If the total travel time was 9 hours, find the speeds of th
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Question 1166676: A company president flew 1110 miles in a corporate jet but returned in a smaller plane that could fly only half as fast. If the total travel time was 9 hours, find the speeds of the planes.
Speed is two times as fast -----> the flying time is half as much.
Hence, of the total 9 hours of flying time 3 hours was spent in a corporate jet and 6 hours in the smaller plane.
So the speed of the corporate jet was = 370 mph
the speed of the smaller plane was = 185 mph
