Downgrading 2009 13" Macbook Air from maverick to OSX

I bought a used macbook air today from a lady to use for school. She mentioned that she upgraded to maverick but it had slowed down the machine some. I noticed the difference when using the laptop and needed to know how to downgrade back to OSX.

You will need the Snow Leopard installation media.  Use this as a guide:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6162
Ciao.

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