document.write( "Question 324276: The speed of a passenger train 20 mph faster than the speed of a freight train. The passenger train travels 340 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 240 miles. Find the speed of each train.
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Rate*Time=Distance
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\n" ); document.write( "Let Vf be the speed of the freight train.
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\n" ); document.write( "\"Vp%2AT=340\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"T=340%2FVp\"
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\n" ); document.write( "\"Vf%2AT=240\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"T=240%2FVf\"
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\n" ); document.write( "\"340%2FVp=240%2FVf\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"340Vf=240Vp\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"Vf=%28240%2F340%29Vp=%2812%2F17%29Vp\"
\n" ); document.write( "Substitute into eq. 1,
\n" ); document.write( "\"Vp=%2812%2F17%29Vp%2B20\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"%2817%2F17-12%2F17%29Vp=20\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"%285%2F17%29Vp=20\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"Vp=%2817%2F5%2920\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"Vp=68\"mph
\n" ); document.write( "Then from eq. 1,
\n" ); document.write( "\"Vf=68-20=48\"mph
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