SOLUTION: 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 ba
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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.
What is the distance covered in order to put the last potato in the basket? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! For each potato, the runner goes from the basket
to the potato, and back to the basket
so, the distance for each potato is doubled
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After the 1st potato, is added to the
one-way distance to each potato. There are potatoes, so is
added to the sum of the one-way distances
traveled by the runner
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The sum of all these additions is then doubled
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Let = total distance covered by runner m
