Solve this Riddle IF you can! (1 Viewer)

[krayzie_]

I need help with this riddle. =\

You might need a pencil and paper, I'm stuck!

"A well known explorer left his camp early one morning and walked straight south for exactly ten miles. He then turned left and walked another ten miles straight east. By this time he was becoming tired, so he stopped for lunch. After he ate and rested he bagan walking straight north. After nine miles of walking he was so weary he could hardly move. As he stopped to rest he told himself, "I'm glad camp is only one mile farther, because I'm so tired I couldn't go on much more than that.""

How could this famous explorer be correct in saying his camp was only one mile away?

Prize goes to the first person who solves it!

 

[krayzie_]

I donnt understand lol,

He walked east after he walked south?!

 

[shannonm]

his camp is on the north pole......

 

[watatank]

gawd i duno ay...

uhmmm uhmm it's a trick question! he has two camps!

 

[Gavvvvvin]

He lugs around his tent on his back and camps wherever the fuck it pleases him.

 

[just-a-stranger]

10m south
10m west
10m east
9m north

d^2 = (10-10)^2 + ( 10-9) ^2

d = 1

maybe this guy's right?
as by "left" maybe it means our "left" not the explorer's..
left(west) for ten.. and another ten for east...
then north again..?

..just a thought.

 

[krayzie_]

Hahah, in the riddle he walks south then east then he walks directly north. Hence if he walked north after he walked east/west he would still be more then 1Mile away from his base camp.

If he walked towards our left he would be walking west, however in the riddle it says he walked ten miles directly east.

Its a hard one, however saying that - this is my little year 7 brother's homework for english. =s

 

[just-a-stranger]

Its a hard one, however saying that - this is my little year 7 brother's homework for english. =s

hahhahha! i sure hope this doesn't come out in the HSC for math! :rofl:

 

[shannonm]

as i mentioned previously

 

[Triangulum]

his camp is on the north pole......

I concur with shannonm.

 

[origami hero]

what about an equilateral triangle?
that is, the guy walked south from the camps perspective and east from the perspective of the turning point and then north from the perspective of looking on a map

 

[watatank]

the equilateral triangle idea can only happen if the camp is at the north pole, as previously mentioned

 

[krayzie_]

Haha, apparently so.. Shitty yr7 curriculam