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Question 1019966: Ok. The problem is: Two aircraft start at the same time to fly 4,800 miles. One goes 120 miles an hour and arrives 2 hours later. Find the average speed of each plane.
I'm having trouble setting up the equation. Once I have it set up I'll know what to do from there, but I'm not sure what to do to set it up. Answer by ikleyn(52775) (Show Source):
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Ok. The problem is: Two aircraft start at the same time to fly 4,800 miles. One goes 120 miles an hour and arrives 2 hours later. Find the average speed of each plane.
I'm having trouble setting up the equation. Once I have it set up I'll know what to do from there, but I'm not sure what to do to set it up.
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Your equation is
- = 2.
where x is an unknown speed of the second aircraft.
