document.write( "Question 221563: I need help with the following:\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "A freight train leaves a station traveling 60 miles per hour. Thirty mintues later a passenger train leaves the station in the same direction on a parallel track at a speed of 72 miles per hour. How long will it take the passenger train to catch the freight train? \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I either get 42 mintues or 75 minutes not sure.
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train A is 30 miles ahead of train B
\n" ); document.write( "B is overtaking A at 12 mph
\n" ); document.write( "30/12=2.5 hrs=2 hrs 30 min
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