Apassenger train traveled 240 miles in the same amount of time it took a freight train to travel 160 miles. the rate of the freight train was 20 miles per hour slower than the rate of the passenger train. find the rate of the passenger train.

You must have the distances mixed up when you typed it because it does not work out equation-wise the way you have it. The distance comes out negative, and distance NEVER should come out negative. If you switch the distances traveled you get that the passenger train is going 60 and the freight train is going 40, which makes sense because if the passenger train is going 60 and the freight train is going 40 which is the 20 mph difference we were told exists between the 2 trains.

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