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document.write( "   A passaenger train can travel 325 miles in the sametime a freight train takes to travel 200 miles. If the speed of the passenger train is 25 miles/h faster than the speed of the freight train . Find the speed for each.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "   Let the speed of the frieght train be = x  miles/hr<BR>\n" );
document.write( "    Then the speed of the passenger train = x+25   miles/hr<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Distance travelled by frieght train is    = 200 miles<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Distance travelled by passenger train is  = 325  miles\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "  time taken by both the trains is same .<BR>\n" );
document.write( "   therefore time taken by frieght train = time taken by passenger train<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "               time taken = distance travelled/speed\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "                      i.e, 200/x = 325/(x+25)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "                       200(x+25) = 325(x)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "                      200x+5000  = 325x\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "                      325x-200x = 5000<BR>\n" );
document.write( "                           125x = 5000    or  x = 5000/125<BR>\n" );
document.write( "                                              x = 40 miles/hr\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "   Therefore the speed of Frieght train = 40 miles/hr<BR>\n" );
document.write( "             the speed of passenger train = 40+25 = 65 miles/hr </SPAN>\n" );
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