Homework Help: math

Posted by tango on Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 4:11pm.

The tail of a giant kangaroo is attached by a giant rubber band to a stake in the ground. A
flea is sitting on top of the stake eyeing the kangaroo (hungrily). The kangaroo sees the flea
leaps into the air and lands one mile from the stake (with its tail still attached to the stake by
the rubber band). The flea does not give up the chase but leaps into the air and lands on the
stretched rubber band one inch from the stake. The giant kangaroo, seeing this, again leaps
into the air and lands another mile from the stake (i.e., a total of two miles from the stake).
The flea is undaunted and leaps into the air again, landing on the rubber band one inch further
along. Once again the giant kangaroo jumps another mile. The flea again leaps bravely into
the air and lands another inch along the rubber band. If this continues indefinitely, will the flea
ever catch the kangaroo? (Assume the earth is flat and continues indefinitely in all directions.)

math - Brian, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 10:55pm
ok this one is PHUN

after the flea jumps on the rubberband, everytime the rubberband stretches the flea gets pulled along, as a rubberband stretches, part of it moves towards the object stretching it

Thus each time the roo jumps the flea is pulled along a little bit... Thus after it jumps, it really has moved an amount of the stretch plus the one inch

So yes it will catch the kangaroo after a long time because it will move the flea a little bit each time it jumps closer towards it, plus the one inch

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math - Promys, Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 8:50pm
It's not so fair to ask promys questions on here, now is it...

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