document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=308214>Question 308214</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A freight train leaves a sterling traveling east at 40 miles per hour. Two hours later a passenger train also headed east, leaves Sterling on a parallel track at 60 miles per hour. How FAR are the trains from Sterling will the passenger train catches up to the freight train. </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #220368 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=mananth><B>mananth(16946)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=mananth><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=mananth><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=220368\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A freight train leaves a sterling traveling east at 40 miles per hour. Two hours later a passenger train also headed east, leaves Sterling on a parallel track at 60 miles per hour. How FAR are the trains from Sterling will the passenger train catches up to the freight train.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Freight train rate = 40 mph<BR>\n" );
document.write( "in 2 hours it will have traveled 80 miles.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Let this point be A\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let the point they meet be Y\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let the distance from A to B be x miles\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Passenger train rate = 60 mph<BR>\n" );
document.write( "It has to travel x+80 miles to catch up with the freight train<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The time taken by this train to go to B  will be x+80/60<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "When the freight train is at point A passenger train is at the sterling.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The freight train  travels x miles in the same time as the passenger train takes to travel x+80 miles<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "time taken by freight train to travel x miles = x/40<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x/40 = x+80/60\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "60x=40(x+80)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "60x=40x + 3200<BR>\n" );
document.write( "20x= 3200<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x=160 miles\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The point they meet is x+80 miles<BR>\n" );
document.write( "=160+80 miles = 240 miles\r<BR>\n" );
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