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A plane traveled 1232 miles each way to New York City and back. The trip there was with the wind. It took 11 hours. The trip back was into the wind. The trip back took 22 hours. Find the speed of the plane
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A plane traveled 1232 miles each way to New York City and back. The trip there was with the wind. It took 11 hours.

The trip back was into the wind. The trip back took 22 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.

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The speed in which the plane was traveling with the wind was 112 mph. On the way back, the plane traveled 56 mph.

The way you find this out is by taking the miles traveled and dividing it by the by the time it took to travel that distance
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