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From: williamg@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.puzzle,net.jokes
Subject: Re: a good interview question (the solution)
Message-ID: <365@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 17:06:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 17:06:50 1985
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Reply-To: williamg@nmtvax.UUCP (Willam O'Gallagher)
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Summary: more than one way to skin a joke

>In article <302@ssc-bee.UUCP> thill@ssc-bee.UUCP (Tom Hill) writes:
>>	You have to travel from town A. to town B.   The distance
>>	between the two towns is 2 miles.  If you drive 30 mph for the
>>	first mile, how fast do you have to drive the second mile in
>>	order to average 60 mph?
>>It can be tricky if you don't think about it.
>You're right about that.  I thought about it and here is the answer:
>	It can't be done.
>Explanation: In order to average 60 mph, you must travel 1 mile in 1 minute.
>Therefore, you must travel the 2 miles in 2 minutes.  But, you have already
>taken 2 minutes to travel the first mile, so even if you go "faster than
>greased lightning" in the second mile, you won't make the 60mph average.
Ah, but if you travel at 186,000 mps you WILL make it. Why?
lim t = 0       {limit of t as velocity goes to the speed of light = 0}
v>c
ask a physicist to explain.
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