Friday, March 16, 2007

Well i started the day by doing a little accelerated math, so i finished an exercise and for some reason it wouldn't scan. So after a little bit we figured out that was an old exercise i already did and so i wasted about 45 mins of my time. Some people were asking about the questions with the fly and the spider. So here we go.

Ex. The length and width of a room are both 12m. The height is 3m. A fly, on the ceiling in a corner, sees a crumb on the floor in the diagonally opposite corner. If the crumb does not moves, what is the shortest distance, to the nearest tenth of a meter, the fly can travel to reach the crumb?

Well i would start buy doing the a^2+b^2=c^2 with the base and the do it with the side and the diagonal of the base to get the answer which is 17.2.

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