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What was the average speed over the whole journey?

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An aeroplane maintains an average speed of 180 miles per hour from one airport to another airport.
It then returns to the first airport over exactly the same distance at an average speed of 144 miles per hour.
What was the average speed over the whole journey?

posted Oct 14, 2021 by Anuradha Tabyal

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