SOLUTION: A train leaves the station at 9:00 pm traveling east at 36 miles per hour. A second train leaves the station at 10:00 pm traveling west at 42 miles per hour. At what time will both
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Question 624777: A train leaves the station at 9:00 pm traveling east at 36 miles per hour. A second train leaves the station at 10:00 pm traveling west at 42 miles per hour. At what time will both trains have traveled the same distance?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the time traveled by the faster train (the one that left later). The other train left one hour earlier, so the time that train was moving is 
.
Since distance equals rate times time, the distance traveled by the faster train is 
and the distance traveled by the slower train is )
Set these two quantities equal to each other and solve for .
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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