SOLUTION: A frog is at the bottom of 200 foot well. Each day it crawls up 5 feet and each it slips back 2 feet. The day begins at sunrise and ends when night begins at sundown. On which d
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Question 172806: A frog is at the bottom of 200 foot well. Each day it crawls up 5 feet and each it slips back 2 feet. The day begins at sunrise and ends when night begins at sundown. On which day will the frog first reach the top of the well? Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 5-2=3feet gain per day...200/3=66.66 this number gives us a reasonable place to start....remember it jumps 5 feet before it loses 2.
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lets start at day 64 just to give our selves room 64 times 3=192 which is 8 feet from reaching our goal. day 65 starts like this 92+5=97(oh, so close)but then we lose 2 at the end of the day...97-2=95...Damn......
at the end of 65 days the frog will have climbed up 195 feet. On day 66 will the frog finally reach its goal?... the frog leaps and what to his wonder 195+5=200. He made it......damn that must have been tiring....turdles pace..lol
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