Question
A freight train and an express train leave towns miles apart at the same time, traveling toward one another. The freight train travels slower than the express train. They pass one another hours later. What are their speeds?
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1 of 4Let be the speed of freight train, and let be the speed of express train.
We know that the speed is:
where is distance and is time.
From (1) we get . So the freight train in 3 hours passed and express train passed
- both trains travel 3 hours and together they covered 390 miles, so we get
- we also know that freight train travels 30 mph slower than express train, so we get:
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