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Electric car (Posted on 2002-08-29) Difficulty: 4 of 5
You have an electric car that you want to use to transport some batteries 1,000 miles. You have 3,000 batteries, but your car can only carry 1,000 of them at once. In addition, for each mile that it travels, the car will need to use up one battery in order to power itself.

How many unspent batteries will you be able to transfer to your destination?

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unrelated... | Comment 11 of 16 |
if you were to drive an electric car that used up one battery/mi driven... it would be very inefficient... unless the batteries were very small and cost less than gass that would get you an equal distance
  Posted by calla tah-n on 2003-05-18 21:28:00
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