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?

A. 30 B. 40 C.58 D. 60

• let the speed of freight train be xkm/hr
  distance covered by freight train in 6 hours=distance covered by passenger train in 4 hrs
  6x=16*4
  x=10.66
  x=11 km/hr
  
  ans is not given
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• The data in the problem is incorrect. The speed of the passenger train should have been 60 km/hr. And the correct answer is 40.
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• The correct answer is not provided.
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• Its to be 10.6km/hr
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• distance covered by pass train is 16*4 equal to 64 km
  avg speed of freight train is x-16 (let x is speed of freight train)
  than x-16 = 64/4
  x=32 km/hr
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