UKMT Cayley Olympiad, 2015

Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

A train travelling at constant speed takes five seconds to pass completely through a tunnel which is 85 m long, and eight seconds to pass completely through a second tunnel which is 160 m long. What is the speed of the train?

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