Question 1186167: As shown in the video, the flight from Seattle to New York, with a tailwind, takes 5 hrs 15 min, and the return flight take 6 hrs 35 minutes. Since the flight time includes time to taxi from and to the gate, we should subtract 45 minutes from each time to account for this. Not shown, I was able to find out the plane was scheduled to fly a 2319 mile flight path. Assuming the plane and wind speeds are constant during both flights, estimate the wind speed, to 1 decimal place.
Answer by ikleyn(52851)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
Similar problems (TWIN problems) were posted to this forum and solved several times several years ago.
See these links
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Trigonometry-basics/Trigonometry-basics.faq.question.1150597.html
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Trigonometry-basics/Trigonometry-basics.faq.question.1140079.html
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Trigonometry-basics/Trigonometry-basics.faq.question.1149885.html
Having these TEMPLATES, you can easily solve the current problem.
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Reading the problem, you may think that it is somebodies' personal message.
It is not so : these problems are generated by adapting one single number: the length of the flight path
from Seattle to New York, which is the only parameter changing from one problem to another.
( . . . Notice that the words and other numbers were NEVER changed . . . )
So, if you know how to solve one such problem, you just know everything, and there is nothing new to learn.
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