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(Message started by: coolnfundu on Nov 7^th, 2004, 7:47am)

Title: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
Post by coolnfundu on Nov 7^th, 2004, 7:47am

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?

P.S. There maybe a trick so read again :(

Title: Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
Post by rmsgrey on Nov 7^th, 2004, 10:58am

Fewer than 12. You don't think the queen would lie do you?

Title: Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
Post by John_Gaughan on Nov 8^th, 2004, 11:28am

Is she boarding from a pier or from another ship?

Title: Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
Post by coolnfundu on Nov 9^th, 2004, 2:09am

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 ::)

Title: Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
Post by Grimbal on Nov 9^th, 2004, 4:46am

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?

Title: Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
Post by rmsgrey on Nov 9^th, 2004, 8:16am

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.

Title: Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
Post by Grimbal on Nov 9^th, 2004, 10:05am

on 11/07/04 at 07:47:18, coolnfundu wrote:

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 f[hide]at[/hide] a[hide]ss[/hide] and find something more proper than a l[hide]ousy[/hide] rope ladder if he expects her to board his f[hide]ucking[/hide] [hide]piece of[/hide] junk. She is not going to climb a single step.

[e] language [/e]

Title: Re: QUEEN VISITING A SHIP
Post by coolnfundu on Nov 9^th, 2004, 11:15pm

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 ...