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Flying to Kampala with a tailwind a plane averaged 158km per hr ... The the return trip the plane only averaged 112 km per . . while flying back into the same wind. Find the speed of the wind and the speed of the plain in still air. Yo ik the answer is 23 kmph but how

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w=wind
p + w=158...p=158-w
p-w=112...p=112+w
SO 158-w=112+w
46=2w
23=w
SO in conclusion you have the correct answer of wind being 23km/h while the plane is going 135 km/h

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