SOLUTION: can yo help me solve this: An airplane was at a crusing altitude, then descended 3,500ft. If the airplane is at 28,500 now, what was the crusing altitude?
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Question 54725: can yo help me solve this: An airplane was at a crusing altitude, then descended 3,500ft. If the airplane is at 28,500 now, what was the crusing altitude? Answer by rchill(405) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If the plane is at 28500 now and descended, then you need to add the number of feet descended (3500 in this case) to get the original altitutde. The equation is . So the airplane was originally at 32000 feet.
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