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Anonymous Sat Oct 15 02:00:16 2011 No.3904196 [Reply] [Original]

Trains A and B, 700 miles apart, are heading toward each other on a straight piece of track. Train A is going 85 mph while train B is going 55 mph. At the same moment, a bee that flies 110 mph is sitting on the nose of train A and begins flying toward train B. When it reaches train B it makes an instantaneous reversal of direction, flies back toward train A and transfers some of it's momentum to the train it hits, lowering the train speed by 5% and increasing its own speed by 2%. It continues to change direction every time it runs into a train until both trains and the bee meet in a spectacular crash. What total distance did the bee fly before the big collision?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 02:03:16 2011 No.3904210 I geuss, something close to infinity (since the trains will probably never meet).

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 02:04:16 2011 No.3904213 Forget the distance. That's a fucking huge bee. Run for your life.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 02:05:30 2011 No.3904216 File: 181 KB, 376x285, too mainstream bro.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw i thought it was a hw ?, then i read the paragraph

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 02:11:16 2011 No.3904227 >>3904213 I laughed way more then i should have

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 02:13:16 2011 No.3904235 You pose an interesting math problem, but I can't take it seriously because of trollface.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 02:21:16 2011 No.3904254 File: 28 KB, 415x347, tr face1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3904235 How about now?

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