document.write( "Question 255405: a freight train leaves a station traveling 60 miles per hour. thirty minutes 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? \n" ); document.write( "

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first train is 30 miles ahead
\n" ); document.write( "overtake speed is 12 mph
\n" ); document.write( "30/12=2.5 hrs= 2 hrs 30 min \n" ); document.write( "

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