SOLUTION: A train leaves the station at 6pm traveling west at 80 miles per hour. On a parallel track, a second train leaves the station 3 hours later also traveling west at 100 miles per hou
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Question 1000510: A train leaves the station at 6pm traveling west at 80 miles per hour. On a parallel track, a second train leaves the station 3 hours later also traveling west at 100 miles per hour. At what time with the second train catch up to the first. Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
How far will the first train have gone during the three-hour head start? How long will it take the second train at 20 miles per hour (the difference between the two trains' speeds) to cover that distance? Add that amount of time to 9 pm, the time the second train left.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
