Question

The sped of a passenger train is 14mph faster than the speed of a freight train. The passenger train travels 280 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 210 miles. Find the speed of each train.

Answer 1

In these written questions the hard part is to find the equations.
Let x be the speed of the slower train, than the faster trains speed is x+14.
Now the distance travelled is speed*time. So we have two equations (t is time)
x*t=210
(x+14)t=280
dividing the two equations give
(x+14)/x=280/210
Hope you can solve this.