SOLUTION: An airplane travels 3564km against the wind in 6 hours and 4524km with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the r

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Question 991102: An airplane travels
3564km
against the wind in
6
hours and
4524km
with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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An airplane travels
3564km
against the wind in
6
hours and
4524km
with the wind in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the plane in still air and what is the rate of the wind?
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Find the 2 groundspeeds, upwind and downwind.
The plane's airspeed is the average of the 2.
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The windspeed is the difference between airspeed and groundspeed.