Train a and train b leave a central station at the same time. they travel the same speed, but in opposite directions, with train a heading towards station a, and train b heading towards station b. train a reaches station a after 2 1/2 h. train b reaches station b after 4 h. station a and station b are 585 mi apart. what is the rate of the trains? enter your answer in the box.

Your ANSWER would be 75

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the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )