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To: Red Badger

If a train, traveling 125 mph, leaves Point A at eleven o’clock, breaks into two parts at noon...how many passengers arrive at Point B by one o’clock?


39 posted on 02/06/2018 11:20:39 AM PST by moovova
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To: moovova
"If a train, traveling 125 mph, leaves Point A at eleven o’clock, breaks into two parts at noon...how many passengers arrive at Point B by one o’clock?"

We were told that there would be no math.

71 posted on 02/06/2018 12:25:02 PM PST by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'm younger than that now.)
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To: moovova
If a train, traveling 125 mph, leaves Point A at eleven o’clock, breaks into two parts at noon...how many passengers arrive at Point B by one o’clock?

Depends how many pax are seated aft of the breakup point, whether they're wearing seat belts, and how close they are to Point B at the time of the breakup.

87 posted on 02/06/2018 4:44:52 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: moovova
If a train, traveling 125 mph, leaves Point A at eleven o’clock, breaks into two parts at noon...how many passengers arrive at Point B by one o’clock?

1.25

95 posted on 02/07/2018 12:41:19 AM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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