Two trains enter a tunnel 200 miles long, traveling at 100 mph at the same time from opposite directions. As soon as they enter the tunnel a supersonic bee flying at 1000 mph starts from one train and heads toward the other one. As soon as it reaches the other one it turns around and heads back toward the first, going back and forth between the trains until the trains collide in a fiery explosion in the middle of the tunnel. How far did the bee travel?
See Solution : Supersonic beeThis puzzle is a little tricky one. One’s thinking about solving this problem goes like this “ok, so i just need to sum up the distances that the bee travels…” but then you quickly realize that its a difficult (not impossible) summation.
The tunnel is 200 miles long. The trains meet in the middle traveling at 100 mph, so it takes them an hour to reach the middle. The bee is traveling 1000 mph for an hour (since its flying the whole time the trains are racing toward one another) – so basically the bee goes 1000 miles.
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Distance travelled by bee= time elapsed (time taken by two trains to collide x speed of bee(1000mph))
=(Length of tunnel/ speed of train1+speed of train 2) x speed of bee
=(200/(100+100))x1000
=1000m
really…nice solution, i was trying to solve it but it was getting tougher…thanks