SOLUTION: A plane left an airport and flew with the wind for 4 hours, covering 2000 miles. It then returned over the same route to the airport against the same wind in 5 hours. Find the rate
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Question 553311: A plane left an airport and flew with the wind for 4 hours, covering 2000 miles. It then returned over the same route to the airport against the same wind in 5 hours. Find the rate of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind. Answer by prateekagrawal(56) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! in both the cases distance is same.
for case 1 speed is 2000/4 = 500mph
and for case 2 speed is 2000/5 = 400mph.
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average of sum of these will provide speed of plane.
so, speed of plane =
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and speed of wind= 500 - 450 = 50mph.
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