SOLUTION: If 2 trains leave a station in opposite directions and one is going 65 mph and the other 55 mph, how long will it be before they are 720 miles apart? Please EXPLAIN the process. I
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Question 632876: If 2 trains leave a station in opposite directions and one is going 65 mph and the other 55 mph, how long will it be before they are 720 miles apart? Please EXPLAIN the process. I totally forget, and I need to know before the end of the day.
Answer by MathTherapy(10557) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If 2 trains leave a station in opposite directions and one is going 65 mph and the other 55 mph, how long will it be before they are 720 miles apart? Please EXPLAIN the process. I totally forget, and I need to know before the end of the day.
Their time to be a certain distance apart will be the distance, divided by the sum of their speeds, OR
, with T being time
T, or time taken to be 720 miles apart = hours
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