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Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2020, 04:29
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Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway line. One hour after the north bound super fast train N leaves station A for Station B, a south bound passenger train S reaches station A from station B. The speed of the super fast train is twice that of a normal express train E, while the speed of a passenger train S is half that of E. On a particular day N leaves for station B from Station A, 20 minutes behind the normal schedule. In order to maintain the schedule both N and S increased their speed. If the super fast train doubles its speed, what should be the ratio (approximately) of the speed of passenger train to that of the super fast train so that passenger train S reaches exactly at the scheduled time at station A on that day.

(A) 1 : 3
(B) 1 : 4
(C) 1 : 5
(D) 1 : 6
(E) 1 : 7


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Re: Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway [#permalink] New post   09 Jan 2020, 22:40
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Bunuel wrote:
Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway line. One hour after the north bound super fast train N leaves station A for Station B, a south bound passenger train S reaches station A from station B. The speed of the super fast train is twice that of a normal express train E, while the speed of a passenger train S is half that of E. On a particular day N leaves for station B from Station A, 20 minutes behind the normal schedule. In order to maintain the schedule both N and S increased their speed. If the super fast train doubles its speed, what should be the ratio (approximately) of the speed of passenger train to that of the super fast train so that passenger train S reaches exactly at the scheduled time at station A on that day.

(A) 1 : 3
(B) 1 : 4
(C) 1 : 5
(D) 1 : 6
(E) 1 : 7


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So, the current ratio between the super fast train N and Passenger train S = 1:4
Time taken by train S = 4/5*60 = 48 mins
Time taken by train N =1/5*60 = 12 mins

On a certain day, when N leaves 20 mins behind the schedule, it doubles its speed,
Now it will take 12/2 = 6 mins to cover the distance

This means that it is 14 mins behind schedule (20*6=14 mins)
So, Train S will be late by 14 mins as well = 48-14=34 mins

Now, the ratio changes to 6:34 = 1:6
Thus, the correct ans is Option D.

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Re: Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway [#permalink] New post   09 Jan 2020, 05:56
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IMO its 1 : 5

considering the trains leave with no waiting once one train reaches opposite station,

total time take for super fast and passenger = 1hr = 60 min

\(\frac{D}{s} + \frac{D}{p} = 60\) min. give s=4p , \(\frac{D}{4p} + \frac{D}{p}= 60\) , \(\frac{5D}{4p} = 60\) --1 ,

During the delay, the trains increase speeds to be on right time, so total time taken here is 60-20=40 min

gives super fast increases speed by twice. let passengers new speed is xp

D/2s + D/xp = 40 min , D/8p + D/xp = 40 -- 2

diving equation 1 and 2 ,

\(\frac{[fraction]5}{4p} / \frac{1}{8p} + \frac{1}{ xp}[/fraction] = \frac{3}{2}\)

p/xp = 17 /24

the questions the ratio os xp / 2s = 3/17 = 1 : 5 APPROX
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Re: Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway [#permalink] New post   09 Jan 2020, 07:11
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Ratio of speed of N to that of S= 4:1

Average speed of both trains= \(\frac{2*4x*x}{(4x+x)}= 1.6x\)

Time to cover the distance on a particular day is reduced from 1 hour to 40 minutes.

Time is reduced to 2/3 times of regular time taken by both train; hence, average speed is increased to 3/2 times of regular average speed in order to maintain the schedule.

Average speed on that particular day= \(1.6x*(\frac{3}{2})= 2.4x\)

Speed of N train on that particular day= 4x*2=8x

\(2.4x= \frac{2*8x*v}{(8x+v)}\)

\(v=\frac{24x}{17}\)

\(\frac{v}{8x}=\frac{24x}{17*8x}= \frac{1}{5.67 }\) ≈ \(\frac{1}{6}\)

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Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway line. One hour after the north bound super fast train N leaves station A for Station B, a south bound passenger train S reaches station A from station B. The speed of the super fast train is twice that of a normal express train E, while the speed of a passenger train S is half that of E. On a particular day N leaves for station B from Station A, 20 minutes behind the normal schedule. In order to maintain the schedule both N and S increased their speed. If the super fast train doubles its speed, what should be the ratio (approximately) of the speed of passenger train to that of the super fast train so that passenger train S reaches exactly at the scheduled time at station A on that day.

(A) 1 : 3
(B) 1 : 4
(C) 1 : 5
(D) 1 : 6
(E) 1 : 7


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Re: Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway [#permalink] New post   12 Jan 2020, 08:36
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The question stem should have mentioned that the passenger train S departs as soon as the super-fast train N reaches Station B because any delay affects the answer. For example, a delay of 10 minutes (logical under the circumstances because N would have to get out of the way for S to get in position since it is a single track) would cause the ratio to be exactly 1:5.
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Re: Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2020, 21:45
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Thank you for your explanation.
One little question, how 6:34 = 1:6?
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Re: Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2020, 21:58
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DevangiK
Thank you for your explanation.
One little question, how 6:34 = 1:6?



Hi !
So, 6:34 = 1:5.66667 which is approximately equal to 1:6. I hope it clearer now, we don't have a aproximate symbol so I used equal to.
But, thank you for the question. :thumbup:
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Re: Only a single rail track exists between station A and B on a railway [#permalink] New post   19 Feb 2020, 12:06
The question stem should be clarified further. Please specify whether more than one train can use the track at the same time. If yes, the answer is 1/5, if no, then 1/6

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