SOLUTION: An aircraft can fly 714 miles from city a to city b in 3 hours with the wind and makes the return trip in 7 hours against the wind. What is the speed of the wind?
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Question 762084: An aircraft can fly 714 miles from city a to city b in 3 hours with the wind and makes the return trip in 7 hours against the wind. What is the speed of the wind? Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! An aircraft can fly 714 miles from city a to city b in 3 hours with the wind and makes the return trip in 7 hours against the wind. What is the speed of the wind?
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Find the 2 groundspeeds.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.
