SOLUTION: with the tail wind a small airplane traveled 420 miles in 1 hour and 30 minutes the return trip against the same wind took 30 minutes longer find the wind speed and the air speed o

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Question 761508: with the tail wind a small airplane traveled 420 miles in 1 hour and 30 minutes the return trip against the same wind took 30 minutes longer find the wind speed and the air speed of the plane
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with the tail wind a small airplane traveled 420 miles in 1 hour and 30 minutes the return trip against the same wind took 30 minutes longer find the wind speed and the air speed of the plane
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d = r*t
r = d/t
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Find the 2 groundspeeds. The airspeed is the average of the 2.
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The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.