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A traveler is walking on a moving walkway in an airport The Traveler must walk back on the walkway to get a bag he forgot the Travelers ground speed is 2ft/s against the walkway and 6ft/s with the walkway what is the Travellers speed off the walkway what is the speed of the moving walkway

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CastleRook
let the speed off the walk way be x and speed of the walkway be y
x+y=6....i
x-y=2....ii
adding the above equation we get:
2x=8
thus
x=4 ft/s
and
y=6-4=2 ft/s
thus the speed off the walk way is 4 ft/s
the speed of the moving walkway is 2 ft/s

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