SOLUTION: An Airplane leaves Kennedy Airport in New York headed for Los Angeles at a speed of 550 miles per hour. Another airplane leaves Los Angeles an hour later headed for Kennedy airport
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Question 775258: An Airplane leaves Kennedy Airport in New York headed for Los Angeles at a speed of 550 miles per hour. Another airplane leaves Los Angeles an hour later headed for Kennedy airport, flying at a speed of 600 miles. If the two planes are 2375 miles apart, when will the two planes pass each other? I am looking to find a point slope equation. Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You can think of this as one plane standing still
and the other one approaching at the sum of their
speeds.
Let = time in hours until they pass each other
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They will pass each other in 2 hrs 4 min
