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Ramesh travels 760Km to his home partly by train and partly by car. He takes 8hr, if he travels 160Km by train and the rest by car. He takes 12 minutes more, if he travels 240Km by train and the rest by car. Find the speed of the train and of the car.


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Detailed Solution

Let the speed of train be xkm/hr
and the speed of the car is ykm/hr respectively.
Question ImageThus, Question ImageFirst, Distance traveled by train = 160km
Distance traveled by car = (760-160)km = 600km Time taken by train+Time taken by car = 8 hours
Hence the equation becomes,
Question ImageSecond, Distance traveled by train = 240km
Distance traveled by car = (760-240)km = 520km
Time taken by train+Time taken by car = 8 hours+12 minutes
Hence the equation becomes,
Question ImageQuestion ImageLet, Question Image, and Question ImageHere, we solving the equations,
We get:
Question Image and Question ImageTherefore, Question Image and Question ImageNow, solving we get,
x= 80 and y =100
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