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Don't drink and run (Posted on 2006-04-03) Difficulty: 2 of 5
A man runs n times round a circular track with radius t miles.
He drinks s quarts of beer for every mile that he runs.
Prove that he will only need one quart!

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Solution Algebraically | Comment 2 of 6 |
Number of quarts
= s times the distance
= s times n times the circumference
= s n 2 pi t
= 2 pi n t s
=1 Quart!


Edited on April 3, 2006, 9:33 am
  Posted by Federico Kereki on 2006-04-03 09:32:24

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