Anyone who could me with this problem it would be most appreciated, along with those who can also add a step-by-step explanation. these types of problems always confuse me because i don't know where to start, and most of the time i can get going if i know what to do from the beginning.
"an airplane flying into the wind travels 1809 miles between two cities in 3 hours and 36 minutes. on the return flight, the same distance is traveled in 3 hours. find the ground speed of the plane and the speed of the wind in miles per hour, assuming both remain constant. (ground speed is the speed of the plane if there were no wind.)"
- kathryn irene
(15 pts)

step-by-step explanation:

equation

you are asked to write the equation

  expression = 0

using the given expression. when you do that, you have

  2x^2-2x-12 = 0

factoring

you can see that each of the coefficients is even, so a factor of 2 can be removed immediately.

  2(x^2 -x -6) = 0

if you multiply the binomials (x+a)(x+b), you get

  (x +a)(x +b) = x^2 +(a+b)x +ab

this tells you the coefficient of x is the sum of two factors of the constant term. here, that means -1 is the sum of two factors of -6. we want to know those factors so we can factor the trinomial.

  -6 = -1×6 = -2×3 = -3×2 = -6×1

the factor pair that sums to -1 is {-3, 2}, so our factorization is

  2(x -3)(x +2) = 0

solutions

the solutions to this equation are the values of x that make the product zero. a product is zero only when only of the factors of the product is zero. here, that means

  x - 3 = 0

  x = 3 . . . add 3 to both sides of the equation

or

  x +2 = 0

  x = -2 . . . add -2 to both sides of the equation

the solutions to the equation are x=3 or x=-2. both of these values of x satisfy the equation—they make it be true.

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