1970 AMC 12 Problem 32
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32.
and travel around a circular track at uniform speeds in opposite directions, starting from diametrically opposite points. If they start at the same time, meet first after has travelled yards, and meet a second time yards before completes one lap, then the circumference of the track in yards is:
Answer: C
Small Hint:
Let the circumference be and compare the two runners’ traveled-distance ratios at each meeting
Big Hint:
At the first meeting their distances are and ; at the second they are and
Solution:
Let the circumference be At the first meeting, has traveled yards and has traveled so their speed ratio is At the second meeting, is yards short of one lap, so it has traveled By then their combined distance is so has traveled Hence Cross-multiplying gives so the circumference is yards.
Therefore, the correct answer is C.
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