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The test of the suits (Posted on 2005-06-07)

An engineer must test three space suits in two test chambers. Each suit must be tested for 1 hour at each of two pressures.

He takes 10 minutes to load a suit in a chamber, set the pressure, and start the test; 4 minutes to change the pressure in the chamber; and 10 minutes to unload a suit from a chamber.

Knowing that each chamber could contain only one suit at once, and since he can only do one load/unload at a time, can he manage to test the suits in less than 4 hours ?

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Chamber 1 Chamber 2

0:00 Load Suit A

0:10 Start test (A @ P1) Load Suit B

0:20 Start test (B @ P1)

1:10 Adjust pressure

1:14 Start test (A @ P2)

1:20 Unload Suit B

1:30 Load Suit C

1:40 Start test (C @ P1)

2:14 Unload Suit A

2:24 Load Suit B

2:34 Start test (B @ P2)

2:40 Adjust pressure

2:44 Start test (C @ P2)

3:34 Unload Suit B

3:44 Unload Suit C

3:54 Eat sandwich, drink beer

Edited on July 18, 2023, 12:53 am

Posted by K Sengupta on 2023-07-18 00:52:29

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