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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle,net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: a good interview question
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 05:16:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 05:16:26 1985
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Summary: 

In article <302@ssc-bee.UUCP> thill@ssc-bee.UUCP (Tom Hill) writes:
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>
>Here is a good interview problem.  It can be a bit heartless to give
>to a nervous interviewee but bewarned... a guy I met was actually
>asked this!
>
>
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>	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.
>
>
>Tom Hill


average?
average over what? Time? Distance? Speed(?)?
8-(

Nige Gale