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if we have 200, four-hundred-pound men in a 1975 bus going 180 miles per hour, and 200 of these men are mooning out the window, how long will it take this bus to go 200 miles if one of these men falls out, and the bus speed drops to 110 miles per hour??
this is figuring the mooning bus member fall out at the 100 mile mark...

2006-11-10 15:42:00 · 4 answers · asked by bigsky 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

4 answers

Distance = 100
Rate = 180
Time for the first half = t

100 = 180t
t = 100/180
t = 5/9 hours

Second half:
100 = 110T
T = 100/110
T = 10/11 hours

Adding the time together:
5/9 + 10/11 = 55/99 + 90/99 = 145/99 hours

145/99 hours ≈ 1 hour 27 minutes 52.72 seconds

And if you want the average speed it is:
200 miles = R * 145/99
R = 200 * 99 / 145
R ≈ 136.6 mph

Time = 1 hour 27 minutes 52.72 seconds (*assuming you could instantaneously drop your speed from 180 to 110 at the halfway point)

2006-11-10 15:48:37 · answer #1 · answered by Puzzling 7 · 0 0

Well, eventually, the bottom will fall out and then, so much for the laws of physics...

I guess a body in motion, only counts when the floor and the wheels are double galvanized steel, and triple belted radials and the people in the moving object were not rotund!

2006-11-10 15:51:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i could not understnad what u want to know properly

2006-11-10 16:03:28 · answer #3 · answered by Naveen 2 · 0 0

I have no idea, but it still made me laugh!!!

2006-11-10 15:50:16 · answer #4 · answered by tigglys 6 · 0 0

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