Question 140938
let's say you are on Hawaii, you watch a Tokyo ship pass a San Francisco ship


the next Tokyo ship is a day behind this one, but the San Francisco ship is moving


in half a day, the San Francisco ship has moved half the original distance to the next Tokyo ship
__ while the next Tokyo ship has also moved half the original distance
__ so they meet, half a day after the San Francisco ship passed the previous Tokyo ship


ships will pass every half day, so on an 8 day voyage there will be 15 meetings at sea


a Tokyo ship arrives at the same time that the San Francisco ship departs
__ and the San Francisco ship arrives at the same time that a Tokyo ship departs
__ if these are considered meetings, then 2 more must be added