SOLUTION: 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? Pl

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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.
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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.
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1%2F1 = 1 hour for the 1-st mile.

1%2F2 hours for the 2-nd mile.

1%2F3 hours for the 3-rd mile.

1%2F4 hours for the 4-th mile.

. . . . 

1%2F60 hours for the 60-th mile.

In total,  1+%2B+1%2F2+%2B+1%2F3+%2B+1%2F4+%2B+ellipsis+%2B+1%2F60 hours.

Calculate by any way you can (for example, using Excel in your computer).

Not very much sense in the problem in whole.

The educational value of it is ZERO (if not negative).

It is a bright example on how the math problem SHOULD NOT be designed.