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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Ronnie Rojas

8 June, 05:09

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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Lorelei Rasmussen · Answer 1

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