Question of the century!!!!!?

Question

Train A is in San Diego. It is departing at 5am, and moving at 120 mph.

Train B is in New York. It is departing at 6am, and moving at 98 kph.

Assuming that both trains are on the same track, in a straight line, what time will the trains crash?

Answer 1

I'm in England but I thought that California and New York had different time zones so you'd have to equalise that and then you have one train in miles per hour and one in kilometres per hour so one of those would need to be converted too. However if the times were the same and you changed 120 mph to kmh you'd get:-

120/5 x 8 knh = 24 x 8 = 192 kmh

Thus each hour the trains would be nearer to each other by 192 + 98 = 290 kilometres.

Divide the distance between San Diego and New York in kilometres by 290 and you have the time in hours but remember to subtract 192 kilometres from the distance as that is how far the San Diego train will have travelled before the New Your train sets off. Add that time to 6 am and there's your answer

Answer 2

LOL!!!!     Good one!    I would assume that they will both crash right over and into the Mississippi River at high noon.

Answer 3

72 Apples

Answer 4

Train A will crash before it even gets up to 120mph....Train B must be in europe somewhere because we don't use the evil metric system here...

Answer 5

You  need to know the distance d from SD to NYC:

t=hours since 6 am

120(t+1) +98t =d

120 t +120 +98t =d

218t +120 =d

Subract 120 from d and then divide by 216. Add answer on to 6 am.