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3 Nov 2021

Given information

A plane is flying  1 mile above the ground .

With Speed:

we need to express the  horizontal distance the plane has travelled i.e.  at time 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

It is known that when , is also horizontal distance traveled is also  .

 

We know that  

Therefore, if the airplane is moving at speed=

So, the horizontal distance  (in miles) that the plane has flown at an time  is as follow:

Hence,     

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