Question: A freight train leaves the train station 1 hour before a passenger train. The two trains are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks.

A freight train leaves the train station 1 hour before a passenger train. The two trains are traveling in the same direction on parallel tracks. If the rate of the passenger train is 5 mph faster than the freight train, how fast is each train traveling if the passenger train pases the freight train in 11 hours?

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