SAT flashbacks

[madlori]

On the latest Ask Lori a Science Question, annearchy got all clever and asked me one of those "If a train leaves the station..." SAT questions. (it wasn't that hard, by the way, Anne)

I have not done one of those since the eighth grade, but I'm glad to say that my subsequent education has apparently preserved my ability to think logically, and I completed

Comments

[pattinthehatt]

But did you take into account that nothing said the trains were on the same track, which meant to me that they would not inevitably collide. :o)

[madlori]

Sure. Go all outside-the-box on me. Be that way. ;-)

[pattinthehatt]

... there is no spoon, there is no box ...
:o)
I'm just a geek in an alternate universe.

[annearchy]

*thrashes you* Of course the trains were on the same track! Otherwise they couldn't collide. And the collision is the whole point of the problem :D

[pattinthehatt]

Always gotta be on the look-out for a trick question! I had this whole looney-tune image in my head of two trains with ferocious expressions bearing down on each other... and passing because they weren't on the same track at all. :o)