document.write( "Question 389200: A passenger train traveled at a sped of 72km/h. A man on the passenger train observed a goods train traveling at a speed of 54km/h in the opposite direction. If the goods train passed him in 8 seconds, find the length of the goods train. \n" ); document.write( "
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Relative to the man on the train, the 2 trains are moving apart
\n" ); document.write( "at the sum of their speeds, or \"72+%2B+54+=+126\" km/hr
\n" ); document.write( "Let \"s\" = the length of the other train.
\n" ); document.write( "In \"8\" sec, \"s+=+126%2A%288%2F3600%29\"km
\n" ); document.write( "(note that \"3600\" is the number of seconds in an hour)
\n" ); document.write( "\"s+=+.28\"km
\n" ); document.write( "\"s+=+280\" m
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