SOLUTION: Plane A flies 2125 miles in the same amount of time it takes Plane B to fly 2375 miles. Plane B is flying 50mph faster than Plane A. Find the amount of time it takes for each plane
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Question 1127686: Plane A flies 2125 miles in the same amount of time it takes Plane B to fly 2375 miles. Plane B is flying 50mph faster than Plane A. Find the amount of time it takes for each plane to travel their respective distances Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, MathTherapy:Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source):
Your time equation is
= .
Cancel the common factor 125 in both sides to get
=
Solve it to find x, the speed of the plane A.
Your next step in the solution is cross-multiplying.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Plane A flies 2125 miles in the same amount of time it takes Plane B to fly 2375 miles. Plane B is flying 50mph faster than Plane A. Find the amount of time it takes for each plane to travel their respective distances
Let time taken by each be T
Then we get the following SPEED/RATE equation: , which can be reduced to:
Solve this for T, the time each takes, which by the way is the same.
