Can this 3-Question Quiz Predict Whether You Believe in God?

Decades ago I saw a math problem that was a major setup. I'm not going to do the setup right here. You have 2 trains that start 25 miles apart. They are heading towards each other on the same track same track. The first one is going 15 miles per hour and a bee with great acceleration and a cool trick of bouncing off train cattle guards takes off from the cattle guard of the first train. After a half hour the bee meets the second train after going 20 miles. It pounces off the cattle guard of that train and heads back toward the first train always maintaining a speed of 40 MPH. (The right setup gives the time and distance for this trip also). The bee keeps doing this until the trains collide in a great wreck killing all on board and the bee of course.

How far does the bee travel in total?

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...analytic thinking may undermine intuitive support for religious belief.

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keith99 said:

Decades ago I saw a math problem that was a major setup. I'm not going to do the setup right here. You have 2 trains that start 25 miles apart. They are heading towards each other on the same track same track. The first one is going 15 miles per hour and a bee with great acceleration and a cool trick of bouncing off train cattle guards takes off from the cattle guard of the first train. After a half hour the bee meets the second train after going 20 miles. It pounces off the cattle guard of that train and heads back toward the first train always maintaining a speed of 40 MPH. (The right setup gives the time and distance for this trip also). The bee keeps doing this until the trains collide in a great wreck killing all on board and the bee of course.

How far does the bee travel in total?

Surprisingly a cleaver schoolboy can get the answer where many college math majors simply give up.

I can do the answer in my head. I made the numbers here so that it would be easy.

Hint: If you look at this the right way every single person on this site can do the math in their head.

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