Question 13

On a straight road XY, 100 m long, five heavy stones are placed 2 m apart beginning at the end X. A worker, starting at X, has to transport all the stones to Y, by carrying only one stone at a time. The minimum distance he has to travel is

Solution

The weights are at distances of 0 m, 2 m, 4 m, 6 m and 8 m from X.

Let us first keep all the weights at a distance of 8 m from X. This would be 8 + 6*2 + 4*2 + 2*2 = 32 m.

Now from the point where all the weights are kept is at a distance of 92 m from Y. So total distance required = 184+184+184+184+92 = 828 m.

So in all 860 m.


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