document.write( "Question 982839: A train leaves Houston at midnight traveling north at 44mph. An hour later, a passenger train, going 55mph, travels north from Houston on a parallel track. How long will it take the passenger train to overtake the freight train? \n" ); document.write( "
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Let t be the time the second train leaves the station, the first train will already have traveled 44 miles.
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\n" ); document.write( "\"D%5B2%5D%28t%29=55t\"
\n" ); document.write( "Find \"t\" when \"D%5B1%5D=D%5B2%5D\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"44t%2B44=55t\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"11t=44\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"t=4\"
\n" ); document.write( "In 4 hours.
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