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Love Conundrum

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K Mark Schofer

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A Tuesday Morning Puzzle

A young man, living in Manhattan, New York, has two girlfriends. One lives to the North, in the Bronx, and the other lives to the South, in Brooklyn. He is not quite the young man he used to be and he knows he has to grow up and have a good relationship with his life. He loves both of them dearly.

He likes both girls equally but can only visit one each weekend. He therefore leaves it to chance and takes the first train that arrives when he reaches the train station.

Even though the man arrives at a totally random time every Saturday morning and the Brooklyn and Bronx trains arrive equally often (every ten minutes), he finds himself visiting the girl in Brooklyn on average nine times out of ten. Is love blind or bad at math. How could the odds so heavily favor taking the Brooklyn train?

3 responses to “Love Conundrum”

  1. vermavkv Avatar
    vermavkv

    Interesting 😊😊

  2. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    One point for magnetism. 🙂

  3. K Mark Schofer Avatar
    K Mark Schofer

    The rider in the train never realized the trains run with the same frequency, yet the second train runs ten minutes after the first. Which changes the odds of which train he gets on. He only has a one in six chance of getting on the other train.

    In the book Puzzlers, i argue with the author of this puzzle who claims it to be one in ten. I think it should be one in six.

I would love to hear you opinion as well

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I’m Mark

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