Let’s say a thief is running on a train with 12 km/h. The police car is moving with 80 km/h. If speed of the train is 60 km/h. What is the speed of thief w.r.t police car?

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Speed of train = 60 km/h
Speed of theif = 12km/h

Since theif is running inside the train

Speed of thief in train = 60 + 12 = 72 km/h

Speed of police car = 80km/h

speed of thief w.r.t police car = 80-72 = 8km/h.

This is done assuming everyone are moving in the same direction

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Let's say a thief is running on a train with 12km/hr the police car is moving with 80km/hr if the speed of the train is 60km/hr what is the speed of the thief w. r. t police car

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Let’s say a thief is running on a train with 12 km/h. The police car is moving with 80 km/h. If speed of the train is 60 km/h. What is the speed of thief w.r.t police car?

Speed of train = 60 km/h Speed of theif = 12km/h Since theif is running inside the train Speed of thief in train = 60 + 12 = 72 km/h Speed of police car = 80km/h speed of thief w.r.t police car = 80-72 = 8km/h. This is done assuming everyone are moving in the same direction

Speed of train = 60 km/h
Speed of theif = 12km/h

Since theif is running inside the train

Speed of thief in train = 60 + 12 = 72 km/h

Speed of police car = 80km/h

speed of thief w.r.t police car = 80-72 = 8km/h.

This is done assuming everyone are moving in the same direction