Are You Smart Enough To Solve This?

[EmilyAdkins1]

A nonstop flight from Los Angeles, CA, To New York, NY, takes 5 hours and 35 minutes. The flight gets to New York, NY, by 2:40 PM. What time did it leave Los Angeles, CA?

This is a hard question that I had to think about for about 30 minutes.

[JimF]

06:05

[Buenchico]

Easy peasy, surely?

It arrives at 1440 NY time, therefore it must have left at 0905 NY time.

However NY is 3 hours ahead of LA, so the actual take-off time was 0605.

[bobbinwales]

Take off 5 hours 35 minutes from 2:40pm so thats 9:05 am then adjust for any time zone diffrence

[cashier]

6.05 am

[EmilyAdkins1]

Ok that was pretty fast. You guys must be geniuses. That took me forever

[bobbinwales]

Benchico is indeed a genius on Answerbank. jimF and cashier are compared to me. Genius is not a term any one would use for me tho!!

[Jackdaw33]

Nothing 'genius' about knowing that vast countries like the USA have different time zones.

[Jackdaw33]

If you took a quick flight across the English Channel from France to England you would arrive before you left.

[JimF]

There's no genius involved here! It's just simple maths, subtraction to be precise.

[ToraToraTora]

so what made this so difficult? the arithmetic or the knowledge of the time zones?

[ToraToraTora]

In the days of Concorde, London to New York, you used to arrive in New York 3 hours before you left!

[bhg481]

You can still leave Calais on a train and arrive in Folkestone half an hour before you left.

[piggynose]

Emily, is math(s) not your strongest subject at school?

[AuntPollyGrey]

Emily did they teach you nothing at Jacksonville High School? :-)

[EmilyAdkins1]

Excuse me I didn’t go there

[Paigntonian]

No.

[EmilyAdkins1]

No about what

[AuntPollyGrey]

Sorry Emily I must have been mistaking you with the FB profile of Emily Adkins from Ohio -easy mistake -apologies.