The speed of a passenger train is 16mph faster than the speed of a freight train. The passenger train travels 300 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 220 miles.

What is the speed of the passenger train?
What is the speed of the freight train?

Question

The speed of a passenger train is 16mph faster than the speed of a freight train. The passenger train travels 300 miles in the same time it takes the freight train to travel 220 miles.

What is the speed of the passenger train?
What is the speed of the freight train?

phi · Answer

Do you have a clue how to start??

anonymous · Answer

no

phi · Answer

You know the formula speed times time = distance or rate x time = distance
or velocity x times = distance?
Call the speed of the passenger train p and the speed of the freight train f
Can you write an expression that equates p and f?  Don't say NO!

anonymous · Answer

I will say no, but I will attempt it. 

p(f) ?

phi · Answer

OK, let's give this a whirl.  But you have to think like a math person and not a poet.
if you know the speed of the freight train, what is the speed of the passenger train. 
as an equation:  p = f + ??

phi · Answer

You going to try?