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Air Traffic Control workers at the Philadelphia International Airport use systems of equations with their flight patterns. Why do you think using a system of equations would be helpful regarding Air Traffic?

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Every airplane in air traffic can follow an equation of motion. Certain solutions related to the system of equations of motion can be collision points of airplanes, so it is important to know the solutions of these systems of equations to avoid an air accident.

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