SOLUTION: A plane leaves Toronto for Montreal. The cities are 500 km apart. During the trip there is a tail wind and it takes 2 ours The return trip against the same wind takes 2.5 hours. W

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Question 1190892: A plane leaves Toronto for Montreal. The cities are 500 km apart. During the trip there is a tail wind and it takes 2
ours The return trip against the same wind takes 2.5 hours. What is the average speed of the plane? What is the
verage speed of the wind?
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A plane leaves Toronto for Montreal. The cities are 500 km apart. During the trip there is a tail wind and it takes 2
ours The return trip against the same wind takes 2.5 hours. What is the average speed of the plane? What is the
verage speed of the wind?
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Find the 2 groundspeeds, downwind and upwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
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Windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.