SOLUTION: You ride a bike to restore 4 miles away to pick up things for dinner when there is no wind you ride at 10 mph today your trip to the store and back took one hour what was the speed

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Question 1123074: You ride a bike to restore 4 miles away to pick up things for dinner when there is no wind you ride at 10 mph today your trip to the store and back took one hour what was the speed of the wind today
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, Alan3354:
Answer by ikleyn(52835) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In School Math there is NO mathematical model to solve such problem.


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I am just 3+ years at this forum.

Every year this problem comes again and again.

Every year I explain that it can not be solved, that it is incorrectly posed problem.

Nevertheless, every year it comes again and again.


The problem here is not in the bike.


Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You have to specify the relation between bike speed and wind speed, if there is one.
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It is not the same as for boats and current, or for planes and wind.
If the wind is 20 mi/hr from behind you and you don't pedal, you don't move 20 mi/hr.
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The author of the problem never had a bike, maybe?