SOLUTION: Two trains stations are 1250km apart. At midnight a passenger train and a freight train leave these stations and start toward each other. The passenger train travels 30km/h than th

Question 1073481: Two trains stations are 1250km apart. At midnight a passenger train and a freight train leave these stations and start toward each other. The passenger train travels 30km/h than the freight train but the passenger train stops for one hour while the freight train travels non stop. the two trains pass each other at 5:00. Find the rate of each train.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The passenger train traveled for 4 hours and freight train for 5 hours.

               SPEED     TIME       DISTANCE
PASSENGER      r+30        4        4(r+30)
FREIGHT         r          5         5r
TOTAL                               1250

Equation to solve,

To nearest whole numbers
Passenger train, 156 km/hour
Freight train, 126 km/hour
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