Problema Solution
At 3 P.M. a freight train leaves Chicago traveling at 40 miles per hour. At 5 P.M., a passenger train leaves the same station traveling in the same direction at 60 miles per hour. How long will it take the passenger train to overtake the freight train?
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First train is 80 miles ahead.
(40 miles per hour)*(2 hrs)
Overtake speed is 20 mph
(60-40)
80/20 = 4
It will take 4 hrs