SOLUTION: Kim and Ken traveled at the same time at the rate of 20 m/min, from the same point on a circular track of radius 600 m. If Kim walks along a circumference and Kim towards the cente

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Question 1178358: Kim and Ken traveled at the same time at the rate of 20 m/min, from the same point on a circular track of radius 600 m. If Kim walks along a circumference and Kim towards the center, find their distance after 10 minutes.
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Kim and Ken traveled at the same time at the rate of 20 m/min, from the same point on a circular track of radius 600 m. If Kim walks along a circumference and Ken towards the center, find their distance after 10 minutes.
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After 10min at 20m/min, they have eached walked 10min*20m/min = 200m.
Let A denote Kim's final position
Let B denote Ken's final position
and C be the center of the circular track
Draw triangle ABC.
The distance between Kim and Ken is |AB|
|AC| is just a radius, 600m
|BC| is just the radius minus the distance Ken traveled in towards the center:
600m-200m = 400m
We know Kim swept out an angle equal to x, where we can set up a proportion of her distance along the circumference with the total circumference:
or
radians
Using the Law of Cosines:

Plug in all the values to get:


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