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coolnfundu
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QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
« on: Nov 7th, 2004, 7:47am » |
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A rope ladder was left down from a ship. 12 steps of the ladder were exposed at 10:00 am. The queen, who was going to visit the ship, said she would visit at 1:00 pm as she would have to climb lesser number of steps then. The tide in the sea increases from morning to afternoon at the rate of 1.2 meters per hour. The distance between any 2 steps of the ladder is 0.4 mts. How many steps will the queen have to climb?
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Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
« Reply #1 on: Nov 7th, 2004, 10:58am » |
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Fewer than 12. You don't think the queen would lie do you?
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Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
« Reply #2 on: Nov 8th, 2004, 11:28am » |
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Is she boarding from a pier or from another ship?
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Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
« Reply #3 on: Nov 9th, 2004, 2:09am » |
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I think queen lies, no matter how the tide rises, the ship rises too, exposing same amount of rope unless the ship is held fixed in a position somehow 
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Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
« Reply #4 on: Nov 9th, 2004, 4:46am » |
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Is it about the bar called "the Ship" during a flood?
If it is a real ship, will all the passenger move to the same side of the ship to see the queen board it?
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Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
« Reply #5 on: Nov 9th, 2004, 8:16am » |
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If the ship's mass (distribution) doesn't change and it is floating at both times, then the same length of the rope ladder must be exposed after the tide has risen further.
For the Queen to climb fewer steps, either at least one of the above conditions must fail, or I've missed a condition, or the rope ladder is a red herring.
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Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
« Reply #6 on: Nov 9th, 2004, 10:05am » |
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on Nov 7th, 2004, 7:47am, coolnfundu wrote:| A rope ladder was left down from a ship. 12 steps of the ladder were exposed at 10:00 am. The queen, who was going to visit the ship, said she would visit at 1:00 pm as she would have to climb lesser number of steps then. The tide in the sea increases from morning to afternoon at the rate of 1.2 meters per hour. The distance between any 2 steps of the ladder is 0.4 mts. How many steps will the queen have to climb? |
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Obviously, no capitain in his right mind would ask the Queen to climb a rope ladder to board a ship! The Queen expresses herself in a very tactful way, but what she is saying is that the rope ladder is a problem and that she is giving the captain exactly 3 hours for him to move his fat ass and find something more proper than a lousy rope ladder if he expects her to board his fucking piece of junk. She is not going to climb a single step.
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Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
« Reply #7 on: Nov 9th, 2004, 11:15pm » |
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i think one should list all probabilities in the answers given if asked like this
if it is not of variable mass and floats at both times - no change
if both the ship and rope are fixed and only tide changes - 02 ...
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