TIME AND DISTANCE.
If the reader will niake.a sketch; of a rectangular block of; land; fr^m the I description, given'j: he will readily solve the following interesting; and .useful problem.* ../ .".■ \:;; ■'•-;•..'..'■•• '■': ."■;■'". i- '■■ .; The northern boundary A B.ands the southern DvC are "each,seven .niiles-in' length, and-'run.from west to east, the'| two short boundariea A D and BC being each ;fiv ">' miles, long. There .-is -/a- boun-. 'dary line' rnniiikg west to east from E.: 1 tp':F, which divides the blpcks' into two.] sections,. the • northern :> one,1 -.'. N,! •• being seven .miles ■by three, and the'southern part, S,: seven inilesi by-two. ■N. is^all good solid ground that could be walked at'a rate twice:aa fast as the;southern part, which" was »U locmq sand. ! Amaii had to, walk from ;D to B, and, although; heknew the character'bf'the land, took the direcib diagonal route between i these two.. .points," and tho question; is ;that, j although it is actually ,th'e-sh'OTtse.t'-'dis-!;tance, .what is .the shortest routb nveaI surod-by. tiine 1 ;froin'D -to' B/'assumingj that a- uniform. gait, -.is maintained throughout ?•■;:';- !'.' ;■■.;■. 1y...' ■: -l.::::.<;>>:-,.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 27
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TIME AND DISTANCE.
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 27
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