document.write( "Question 762824: In a potato race, 10 potatoes are placed 6m apart in straight line, the first being 10m apart from a basket. A runner starts from the basket and puts one potato at a time in the basket.
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For each potato, the runner goes from the basket
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\n" ); document.write( "so, the distance for each potato is doubled
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\n" ); document.write( "After the 1st potato, $\"+10+\"$ is added to the
\n" ); document.write( "one-way distance to each potato. There are
\n" ); document.write( " $\"+10+\"$ potatoes, so $\"+10%2A10+=+100+\"$ is
\n" ); document.write( "added to the sum of the one-way distances
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\n" ); document.write( "The sum of all these additions is then doubled
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\n" ); document.write( "Let $\"+d+\"$ = total distance covered by runner
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\n" ); document.write( " $\"+d+=+20+%2B+2%2A%28+270+%2B+100+%29+\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"+d+=+20+%2B+2%2A370+\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"+d+=+20+%2B+740+\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"+d+=+760+\"$ m\r
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