SOLUTION: with the wind a jet takes 3hours to fly 1890 miles.against the wind, itt akes 4 hours for the same trip. find the winds speed and the planes speed

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Question 619011: with the wind a jet takes 3hours to fly 1890 miles.against the wind, itt akes 4 hours for the same trip. find the winds speed and the planes speed
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with the wind a jet takes 3hours to fly 1890 miles.against the wind, itt akes 4 hours for the same trip. find the winds speed and the planes speed
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Find the 2 groundspeeds.
The plane's airspeed is the average of those.
The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.