CYCLING AND WALKING.
Fully understanding a problem by reading carefully tho statement of it, is always an essential factor helping one to a quick solution, and the following simple little calculation is ono in point. A cyclist travelling from X to V walked half the distance and, cycled the other half, and returning by the same routo ho cycled half the time and walked tlio rest. Now, assuming that he maintained uniform rates of speed by the respective methods of travelling both going and returning, can the reader say which journey occupied the longer time- and what is the distance between the two places if the outward trip took seven and a-half hours, tho traveller walking at tho even rate of a furlong every one and a-half minutes, the speed of the cycle being eight hundred and eighty feet per minute?
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 17
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141CYCLING AND WALKING. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 17
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