Problem of the Week
for the week of January 30, 2006

Dulles to Denver

My wife and I flew to Colorado for Christmas. Our flight left Dulles Airport at 2:34 PM and arrived in Denver at 4:33 PM.   On the return trip, our flight back home left Denver at 6:44 PM and arrived at Dulles at 11:44 PM.
Assume that the plane's airspeed was constant and that the wind speed was constant (and that the wind was blowing in the same direction).

If the distance between the airports is 1,473 miles, determine the airspeed of the airplane and the windspeed correct to two decimal places.

Don't forget to figure in the time change!


Send your solution by Friday 4:00 PM to:
David Pleacher

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