Sunday Puzzle-29 |
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| Sunday, 13 January 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Puzzle courtesy of Barry R. Clarke, columnist for The Daily Telegraph and international puzzle expert  The Slug and the Snail A slug and a snail planned a race between two stones set a distance D cm apart. Said the slug to the snail "Since I'm slimier than you, I intend to start T seconds before you". "In that case", said the snail, who was rather slow, "I'm going to give you X cm start". It didn't matter. The slug, who could move at speed V cm/s, was only half as fast as the snail. The result was a dead heat, t seconds after the slug set off. Now, D, t, T, V and X are all whole numbers from 1 to 10 inclusive, no two numbers being the same. How long did it take the snail to reach the finish? Related reading: Sunday Puzzle-28 Sunday Puzzle-27 Sunday Puzzle-26 Sunday Puzzle-25 Sunday Puzle-24 Sunday Puzzle-23 Sunday Puzzle-22 Sunday Puzzle-21 Sunday Puzzle-20 Sunday Puzzle-19 Sunday Puzzle-18 Sunday Puzzle-17 Sunday Puzzle-16 Sunday Puzzle-15 Sunday Puzzle-14 Sunday Puzzle-13 Sunday Puzzle-12 Sunday Puzzle-11 Sunday Puzzle-10 Sunday Puzzle-9 Sunday Puzzle-8 Sunday Puzzle-7 Sunday Puzzle-6 Sunday Puzzle-5 Sunday Puzzle-4 Sunday Puzzle-3 Sunday Puzzle-2 Sunday Puzzle
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