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Part One: Two men get lost whilst walking in the woods. One starts walking northwards, whilst the other heads south. They bump into each other a quarter of an hour later. Explain.

Part Two: If a man walks due south for 4 miles and then due north for 3 miles, what is the maximum distance he can be from where he started?

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Originally posted by derts
Part One: Two men get lost whilst walking in the woods. One starts walking northwards, whilst the other heads south. They bump into each other a quarter of an hour later. Explain.

Part Two: If a man walks due south for 4 miles and then due north for 3 miles, what is the maximum distance he can be from where he started?
Part one I am thrown by the woods thing, no woods at the poles so
thats out. Part two, 7 miles, he starts 4 miles from the south pole
and keeps going.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Part one I am thrown by the woods thing, no woods at the poles so
thats out. Part two, 7 miles, he starts 4 miles from the south pole
and keeps going.
Part 1: it never said they got lost while together.

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Originally posted by mtthw
Part 1: it never said they got lost while together.
AH! Beaky snitch!
On part two, in a three dimensional sense, the way the neutrino flies,
its slightly less than 7 miles if you make a straight line between the
two points, not much though.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
AH! Beaky snitch!

That's what I thought as well.

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Originally posted by derts
Part One: Two men get lost whilst walking in the woods. One starts walking northwards, whilst the other heads south. They bump into each other a quarter of an hour later. Explain.

Part Two: If a man walks due south for 4 miles and then due north for 3 miles, what is the maximum distance he can be from where he started?
the woods they were separated at first and walked toward each oher

walking the farthest would be only one mile