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It's a relay race, runners take turns. All the people are not running together, after a runner completes 1 lap the next runner from the team runs. At any given time, only two runners are running on the track - one from Team A and one from Team B.
Team A and Team B have completed \(3*(240+60\pi)\) of distance at 137 seconds and 143 seconds, respectively.
Now the last member of Team A took 41 seconds - they completed race at 178 seconds, at this time Team B's last member has just ran for 35 seconds, now if we find how much distance he has covered in this 35 seconds we subtract that from \(240+60\pi\) and get our answer.
Heyy
Why is my approach incorrect
Team A and Team b Completed their race in 178 and 185 secs respectively.
So distance covered by A in 178 secs - distance covered by B 178 secs = is what is asked
distance covered by A
Total Distance 4 *( 60pi + 240)
distance covered by B
4 *( 60pi + 240) | 185 secs |
? | 178 secs |
Hence cross multiplying we don't get clean integers
4 *( 60pi + 240)*178 / 185
Total time and distance won't be proportional since each runner has a different constant speed, one lap is \(240+60\pi\), you can see every runner takes different time to complete a lap. Hence, cross multiplying to find distance covered by B won't work.
To find the distance covered by B, you will have take last runners time and speed into account, when last runner from team A completes \(240+60\pi\), the last runner from team B has ran for 35 seconds, his speed is \(\frac{240+60\pi}{42}\). Distance covered by B in 35 seconds = \(35*\frac{240+60\pi}{42}\). So he has covered 5/6th of \(240+60\pi\), Team A beat team B by 1/6th of \(240+60\pi\) = \(40+10\pi\)
Hope it helps.