Question 1062783: Flying against the wind, a jet travels 9450 mi in 9 hours. Flying with the wind, the same jet travels 10,320 mi in 8 hours. What is the rate of the jet in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Flying against the wind, a jet travels 9450 mi in 9 hours. Flying with the wind, the same jet travels 10,320 mi in 8 hours. What is the rate of the jet in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
----------
Find the 2 groundspeeds, upwind and downwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
---------
windspeed = difference between airspeed & groundspeed.
|
|
|
