December 11th, 2006, 02:03 PM
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 | Grand Panjandrum | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: South of England
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Originally Posted by CaptainBlack  ImPerfectHacker has requested that I post this problem - allegedly because
he does not understand it. It does not look too difficult to me, though a bit
fiddly.
RonL
One day it started snowing at a heavy and steady rate. A snowplough
started out at noon, going 2 km the first hour and 1 km the second hour.
What time did it start snowing?
. | You will need to make a number of assumptions in order to develop a solution of this problem. The most important is that the plough can clear a fixed volume of snow per unit time. The other assumptions are fairly standard and I will leave those to the solvers. RonL
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