SOLUTION: I need some help with this please thank you so much one high-speed jet travels 100 miles per hour faster than another. When one plane travels 2000 miles, the other travels 1500

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Question 636164: I need some help with this please thank you so much
one high-speed jet travels 100 miles per hour faster than another. When one plane travels 2000 miles, the other travels 1500 miles. Find the speed of each plane
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Distance equals rate times time, so time is equal to distance divided by rate.

The slow plane takes hours.

The fast plane takes hours.

Since hours is the same as hours, we can write:



Cross-multiply and solve for . Then calculate

John

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