you drop one penny per hour.The plane is travelling at 720 mph. How long does it take you to drop all 100 pennies. Assume plane refuels at speed in mid-air and you do not pick up the pennies as they drop, and also you you start dropping pennies as soon as the plane reaches speed.
2007-07-08 09:50:13 · 4 answers · asked by Book of Changes 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
ps, the plane is travelling @ 15,000 feet
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2007-07-08 09:57:33 · update #1
how many hours relative to your actual place in time relative to thetime on earth, this is a sequence
2007-07-08 10:03:45 · update #2
you reset the watch at each new time zone. thanks also plane reaches speed 10 minutes into an time zone
2007-07-08 10:13:00 · update #3
how is it related to the airplane ?
i drop one penny an hr ...
so it will take 99 hrs after i have dropped the first penny to drop all the pennies ...
if you are looking for the distance the plane will travel ... it is 99*720 = 71280 mile
2007-07-08 09:55:30 · answer #1 · answered by Yash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes 99 hours at a particular watch setting to drop the pennies
Now are you resetting your watch all the time and if so when?
2007-07-08 17:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
99 hours
you drop the first one at the beginning
the second at one hour
etc until 99 hours are reached and you run out of coins
2007-07-08 16:57:51 · answer #3 · answered by Aslan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 hours.
2007-07-08 16:55:05 · answer #4 · answered by RickB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋