Recent content by Bagbo

I see what I was doing wrong. I was misinterpreting the problem. I assumed he was passing each time saying "hello" and heading to opposite end of the path. It does not say he turns around when he meets you just that he meets you. and that he turns around when he reaches the end of the path.

With the numbers you give the runners will pass at 1 hour, 1.333 hours, and 2 hours, just as I said. ANY s1 between 0 and 0.5 will yield 3 meetings at 1 hour, 1/(1 - s1), and 2 hours respectively on a path of unit distance. With your numbers plugged in only twenty minutes pass between the first...

On project Eureka the following problem was posted: You and a friend like running, but your friend is much faster than you. So you can run together, you two have arranged the following system. You both start out at the beginning of a path and run at constant speeds. Your friend runs to the...