Question

An anemometer recorded yesterday's wind speeds. The strongest wind gust was 43 miles per hour. The second strongest wind gust was 39 miles per hour. How much stronger was the first gust than the second? Show your work in the space below. Don't forget to label the units on your answer.

Answer 1

In order to find how much stronger was the first gust than the second, we just need to subtract their values.

So we have that:

$43-39=4$

So the strongest wind gust was 4 miles per hour stronger than the second strongest wind gust.