SOLUTION: Need help please ,
Two trains travel round toy railway track, one takes 40 secs per circuit, the other takes 55 secs.
How long before they are back in the station together?
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Question 634130: Need help please ,
Two trains travel round toy railway track, one takes 40 secs per circuit, the other takes 55 secs.
How long before they are back in the station together?
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Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, josmiceli:
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Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since the length of the track isn't given,
I'll say it is units.
So the faster train's speed is unit/sec
The slower train's speed is units/sec
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I think of the round track as straightened out
with a mark on the track every units.
Then the problem becomes:
"What is the smallest time when they both
end up on a mark?" The mark is really the same point
repeated.
The faster train:
(1)
The slower train:
(2)
( j and k are whole numbers )
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Solving for ,
(1)
(2)
so,
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This tells me the faster train goes around 11 times,
and the slower train goes around 8 times in time
, meeting back at the start
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(1)
(1)
(1) sec
and, checking
(2)
(2)
(2) sec
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