SOLUTION: A small plane flew 1050 miles in 5 hours with the wind. Then on the return trip, flying against the wind, it traveled only 640 miles in 5 hours. What were the wind velocity and the

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Question 1031270: A small plane flew 1050 miles in 5 hours with the wind. Then on the return trip, flying against the wind, it traveled only 640 miles in 5 hours. What were the wind velocity and the speed of the plane? (Note: The "speed of the plane" means how fast the plane would be flying with no wind.)
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A small plane flew 1050 miles in 5 hours with the wind. Then on the return trip, flying against the wind, it traveled only 640 miles in 5 hours. What were the wind velocity and the speed of the plane?
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Find the 2 groundspeeds, upwind and downwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
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Windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.