Question

An airplane flies 3024 miles into the wind for 14 hours. The return trip takes 9 hours. Find the speed of the airplane without a wind and the speed of the wind.
If the plane's speed is p and the wind speed is w, then we have

14(p-w) = 3024
9(p+w) = 3024

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