SOLUTION: A light aircraft travels 4 miles per hour less than three times the speed of a motorcycle. If the motorcycle can travel 102 miles in the same time it takes the aircraft to travel 2

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Let x be the speed of the motorcycle.

Then the speed of the aircraft is 3x-4.


Your "time equation" is THIS:

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102*(3x-4) = 294*x


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