document.write( "Question 1059911: train leaves a depot traveling one mile per hour. Every mile that the train travels, it increases speed by one mile per hour. How long will it take the train to travel 60 miles? Please leave your answer in hr-min-seconds form. \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "train leaves a depot traveling one mile per hour. Every mile that the train travels, it increases speed by one mile per hour.
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document.write( " = 1 hour for the 1-st mile.\r\n" );
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document.write( " hours for the 2-nd mile.\r\n" );
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document.write( " hours for the 3-rd mile.\r\n" );
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document.write( " hours for the 4-th mile.\r\n" );
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document.write( ". . . . \r\n" );
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document.write( " hours for the 60-th mile.\r\n" );
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document.write( "In total,   hours.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Calculate by any way you can (for example, using Excel in your computer).\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Not very much sense in the problem in whole.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The educational value of it is ZERO (if not negative).\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "It is a bright example on how the math problem SHOULD NOT be designed.\r
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