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Don't drink and run (Posted on 2006-04-03)

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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Once aroumd the track would require 2*pi*t pints.

N times around the track would require 2*pi*n*t *s of beer.

This can be written as 2 pints, which I s equal to 1 qwart of beer.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2023-05-08 23:46:13

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