SOLUTION: A Train leaves Boston at 2:00pm. A second train leaves the same city in the same direction at 8:00pm. The second train travels 150mph faster than the first. If the second overtakes
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Question 730555: A Train leaves Boston at 2:00pm. A second train leaves the same city in the same direction at 8:00pm. The second train travels 150mph faster than the first. If the second overtakes the first at 10pm, what is the speed of each of the two trains.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Speed of first train ---------------x
speed of train II-----------------x+150
Second train leaves after 6 hours
the first train has traveled 6x miles before train II starts
catch up speed = 150
catch up distance = 6x
catch up time =8 hours
8=6x/150
x=200 mph speed of first train
200+150 = 350 mph is the speed of train II
