SOLUTION: The speed of a passenger train 20 mph faster than the speed of a freight train. The passenger train travels 340 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 240 mile
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Question 324276: The speed of a passenger train 20 mph faster than the speed of a freight train. The passenger train travels 340 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 240 miles. Find the speed of each train.
Passenger train? MPH
Freight train? MPH
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Rate*Time=Distance
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Let Vf be the speed of the freight train.
Let Vp be the speed of the passenger train.
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Substitute into eq. 1,
mph
Then from eq. 1,
mph
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