A Math Problem About Love

Alex Baia
Slackjaw
Published in
4 min readDec 19, 2022

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A train carrying a long-distance boyfriend leaves the station at 5 PM, going 50 mph.

Three hundred miles away, a train carrying a long-distance girlfriend leaves the station at 5:15 PM, on the same track, going in the other direction at 45 mph.

After the trains depart, the boyfriend calls the girlfriend on his iPhone and says, “Hey. Are you on the train?”

Alex Baia
Slackjaw

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