SOLUTION: A passenger train leaves Norfolk, Virginia, 1.2 hours after a freight train leaves. The passenger train is traveling 18 mph faster than the freight train on a parallel set of track
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Question 310693: A passenger train leaves Norfolk, Virginia, 1.2 hours after a freight train leaves. The passenger train is traveling 18 mph faster than the freight train on a parallel set of tracks. The trains are traveling IN THE SAME DIRECTION. The two trains will be at the same location 3 hours after the passenger train leaves. Find the speed of each train. Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Rate*Time=Distance
Freight train is train 1, passenger train is train 2.
Both go to the same destination, travel the same distance.
Train 2 is 18 mph faster than Train 1.
Train 2 takes 3 hours, train 1 1.2 hours longer. mph mph
