2 hours after a freight train leaves Delhi a passenger
train leaves the same station travelling in the same
direction at an average speed of 16 km/hr. After travelling
4 hrs the passenger train overtakes the freight train. The
average speed of the freight train was?

Answer Posted / biswa deepak tripathy

DISTANCE BETWEEN DELHI STATION AND OVERTAKE POINT=DISTANCE
COVERED BY FREIGHT TRAIN=16*4=64KM
TIME TAKEN BY FREIGHT TRAIN=4+2=6HRS
AVG.SPEED=64/6=10.66K/HR

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