SOLUTION: A small plane flies 810 miles from Los Angeles to Portland, Or. with an average speed of 270 mph. An hour and half after the planes leaves, a Boeing 747 leaves Los Angeles for Port
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Question 921570: A small plane flies 810 miles from Los Angeles to Portland, Or. with an average speed of 270 mph. An hour and half after the planes leaves, a Boeing 747 leaves Los Angeles for Portland. Both planes arrives in Portland at the same time. What was the average speed of the 747?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! ____________________rate___________time____________distance
SMALL_______________270_________________________810
BG747________________r______________________________810
Most important is to understand the data shown in the table.
Use the basic travel uniform rate rule RT=D; and use the SMALLL data to find t, and use this result to find r in the Boing747 data.
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A small plane flies 810 miles from Los Angeles to Portland, Or. with an average speed of 270 mph. An hour and half after the planes leaves, a Boeing 747 leaves Los Angeles for Portland. Both planes arrives in Portland at the same time. What was the average speed of the 747?
Time small airplane traveled for: , or 3 hours
Boeing 747 takes 1.5 hours less, or 3 – 1.5, or 1.5 hours
Speed of 747: , or mph
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