SOLUTION: A plane has a speed of 300 miles per hr in still.air. the plane travels a distance of 680 mules with a tail wind in the same time it takes to travel 520 miles into a headwind. Find

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Question 1112102: A plane has a speed of 300 miles per hr in still.air. the plane travels a distance of 680 mules with a tail wind in the same time it takes to travel 520 miles into a headwind. Find the speed of the wind
Answer by ikleyn(52914) About Me  (Show Source):
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Your basic equation is


680%2F%28300%2Bv%29 = 520%2F%28300-v%29


to find "v", the speed of wind.


Answer.  It is 40 miles per hour.

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To see many other "tailwind and headwind" word problems solved and explained,  look into the lessons
    - Wind and Current problems
    - Wind and Current problems solvable by quadratic equations
    - Selected problems from the archive on a plane flying with and against the wind
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this textbook under the section "Word problems",  the topic "Travel and Distance problems".


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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
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to your archive and use it when it is needed.