SOLUTION: against the wind a small plane flew 175 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes. The return trip took only 50 minutes. What was the speed of the wind? What was the speed of the plane is sti
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Question 715175: against the wind a small plane flew 175 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes. The return trip took only 50 minutes. What was the speed of the wind? What was the speed of the plane is still air?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! against the wind a small plane flew 175 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes. The return trip took only 50 minutes. What was the speed of the wind? What was the speed of the plane is still air?
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Find the 2 groundspeeds using d = r*t
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The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.
