{"id":3448,"date":"2024-02-10T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:26:25","slug":"timing-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2024\/02\/10\/timing-the-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing the Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3446\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Timing-the-Car-Fig2lab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Timing-the-Car-Fig2lab.jpg 500w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Timing-the-Car-Fig2lab-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/>This is yet another simple problem from Henry Dudeney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c57. TIMING THE CAR<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was walking along the road at three and a half miles an hour,\u201d said Mr. Pipkins, \u201cwhen the car dashed past me and only missed me by a few inches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know at what speed it was going?\u201d asked his friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, from the moment it passed me to its disappearance round a corner I took twenty-seven steps and walking on reached that corner with one hundred and thirty-five steps more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, assuming that you walked, and the car ran, each at a uniform rate, we can easily work out the speed.\u201d \u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Timing-the-Car-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Timing-the-Car-210618.pdf\">Timing the Car<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another simple problem from Henry Dudeney. \u201c57. TIMING THE CAR \u201cI was walking along the road at three and a half miles an hour,\u201d said Mr. Pipkins, \u201cwhen the car dashed past me and only missed me by a few inches.\u201d \u201cDo you know at what speed it was going?\u201d asked his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,81],"class_list":["post-3448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-henry-dudeney","tag-travel-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}