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One rope, two flagpoles... (Posted on 2018-09-18)

A puzzle from James F. Fixx’s More Games for the Superintelligent, 1976:

A rope 150 feet long is strung between the tops of two flagpoles, each 100 feet high. At its lowest point the rope sags to within 25 feet of the ground.
*original question* What is the distance between the poles?

*my question* How long did it take you to get the correct answer?

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON

Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)

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about 30 min

| Comment 1 of 4

never mind - I got it wrong. Soon after I got it right.

Edited on September 18, 2018, 11:50 pm

Posted by Steven Lord on 2018-09-18 08:29:00

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