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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A train travelling at the rate of 18.5 miles an hour started at 7 am on a journey of 148 miles. A second train started from the same station and arrived 15 minutes after the first one. If the ratio of the speed of the second train to that of the first is 8 : 5, when did the second train start?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

148/18.5=8 hours

OpenStudy (anonymous):

3 pm--> first train reach 3.15pm->second train

OpenStudy (anonymous):

8x:5x

OpenStudy (anonymous):

5x=18.5 x=3.7

OpenStudy (anonymous):

148/29.6=5 so it starts at 10am

OpenStudy (anonymous):

15min lates so 10:15 am

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