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Question: An airplane travels at 1800km at a speed of 1000km/h. It then encounters a headwind that slows it down to 850km/h for the next 2300km. What was the average speed of the plane for this trip?
The answer according to the sheet is 550km/h, it doesn't explain how this answer was achieved but when I tried it my answer was 909.921671 Km/h. Can anybody get 550km/h? or was I actually right? |
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First attempt I got 909, too, but that's just by doing total distance/total time, so nobody else try that. =)
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hmm, well, logically, the average can't possibly be 550 since the plane doesn't go any slower than 850 mph XD
It's wrong. Your answer is correct.
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When I checked it I got 911, it's a conspiracy.
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lol at Reach.... but yea... this is some pretty easy ****.
what I want to know is how the plane magically went from 1000km/s to 850km/s without any kind of period of acceleration change. y'know, that 2nd part of the 3 part question with "the plane decelerated from 1000 to 850 over 1000 miles at a fixed rate of deceleration." then again, the average speed if it was a fixed deceleration would be the average of the two... meh. I know! The plane's engines died and freefell for 6 seconds. lol. now THAT would make the problem amusing. wonder if they'd make you calculate the terminal velocity of the plane. assuming air resistance is 0, of course. but, alas, it wouldn't change the horizontal velocity. :-/. where are our fun problems with parabolic trajectories and ledges and crap.
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it would still be gradual.... unless we have like, the Wind of God pushing into it or something.
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There's a reason straight lines are banned from graphs of functions in mathematics. That's instantaneous motion assuming the X-axis represents time. |
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Straight lines are BANNED?
lmao. They just don't exist, since a slope of infinity is not possible. B&
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