Logic puzzle

[johnckirk]

Over at the Microsoft Press blog, they've been promoting Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying. As well as the blurb about the book itself, they have a logic puzzle:

Two trains race toward each other on a railway segment that’s 100 miles long. The trains are traveling at 100 mph. A mosquito flying at 200 mph flies from one train toward

Comments

[bazzalisk]

Can't fault your logic on that one.

[pozorvlak]

Yep. That's exactly the cunning trick that the problem requires.

I'm really struggling to see how an SQL query would help...

[johnckirk]

In fairness, I'm only guessing at the reason it was included in the book; it might be for some other reason completely. They said on the blog that they'd reveal the answer next week, so hopefully that will clarify things.

[sammoore]

This is a well known "lateral thinking" problem, I think first presented by Edward de Bono in the 60s.

If you are interesting the the sort of puzzles/tricks/techniques that Microsoft use for recruiting I can recommend this book.

How Would You Move Mount Fuji