Originally posted by agrysonThe distance is unspecified, but by definition has to be constant since 1/2 the total distance, or D/2 has been covered by the object. And don't worry about how i present myself here, mmmkay?? Thanks.
Actually, he'd never said you couldn't change the speed, and I wouldn't bandy about the 'simple scientific principles' thing too much, everyone has to eat their words sometime (like me a few posts ago! 🙁 )
Ok, I apologise for affronting you, though you do seem a little combattive, and wether he limited the distance, it remains true that he didn't limit your speed for the remainder of the journey.
If you're going to say a question lacks merit, please read it properly first.
I've met a lot of questions of this type and found it to be very well phrased in the sense that it was concise, gave all required information, but gave no hints as to how it was to be solved. And as previously stated ont his thread, it stumped Einstein for a while, so lets ease off the criticism until you have something to criticise please?
Ok, I apologise for affronting you...Are you functionally literate? First you apologize for unspecified affronts... and then go on to give me unsolicited advice. 😵 Yes the question lacks merit, for the simple reason that a simple measurement has been made, you cannot magically alter it. For the last time 🙄 it is a simple algebra problem.
If you're going to say a question lacks merit, please read it properly first.
Originally posted by eldragonflyWell, this is interesting. Einstein, a math professor, me, the person who wrote the problem against... eldragonfly. Well, that's tough.
Are you functionally literate? First you apologize for unspecified affronts... and then go on to give me unsolicited advice. 😵 Yes the question lacks merit, for the simple reason that a simple measurement has been made, you cannot magically alter it. For the last time 🙄 [b]it is a simple algebra problem.[/b]
Originally posted by eldragonflyFor the last time, what is speed? Distance divided by time. Right?
Are you functionally literate? First you apologize for unspecified affronts... and then go on to give me unsolicited advice. 😵 Yes the question lacks merit, for the simple reason that a simple measurement has been made, you cannot magically alter it. For the last time 🙄 [b]it is a simple algebra problem.[/b]
Originally posted by abejnoodWrong. 😛 The average speed given here as 30 mph, this is the figure that you supplied, and is a measurement of two variables, distance over time. Now since this figure is given as a constant, the distance travelled is a constant, and the time elapsed is also constant. Once again you cannot magically increase it, or change this measurement no matter how hard you try. 😵
For the last time, what is speed? Distance divided by time. Right?
Originally posted by eldragonflyYou're impossible. And you're wrong. Please don't try and argue something you don't understand.
Wrong. 😛 The average speed given here as 30 mph, this is the figure that you supplied, and is a measurement of two variables, distance over time. Now since this figure is given as a constant, the distance travelled is a constant, and the time elapsed is also constant. Once again you cannot magically increase it, or change this measurement no matter how hard you try. 😵
Originally posted by eldragonflyWHICH IS WHY THE TRUCK HAS TO GO AT INFINITE SPEED!!!!!
Irrelevant. And that's not the mathematical refutation i was hoping for. 😕 You have failed miserably. You give the truck a distance to travel but no time to do it. 🙄
Infinite speed is going a distance with no time passing! Which is the solution! Which I have explained many times now!
Originally posted by eldragonflyhttp://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/resources.php?c=182&cid=44&year=2007
Irrelevant. And that's not the mathematical refutation i was hoping for. 😕 You have failed miserably. You give the truck a distance to travel but no time to do it. 🙄
Do problem 4.