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Zachary is an engineer and studies trains. He found this interesting problem involving a passenger train and a freight train:

A passenger train left New York and traveled North while a freight left from the same place, at the same time and traveled South. After traveling for 6 hours the trains were 720 miles apart. If the passenger train was traveling at 80 mph, how fast was the freight train traveling

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Answer:

40 m/hr

Explanation:

6 hours * 80 m/hr + 6 hours * x m/hr = 720 miles

6 * 80 + 6 * x = 720

x = 40 m/hr

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