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An airplane departs from point A with a destination of point B, 200 miles away. Halfway there, the pilot finds he is one mile off course. He makes a correction and flies directly to point B. How much extra distance did he fly by being off course?

A)      1/100 of a mile
B)      One mile
C)      Two miles
D)      20 miles

Don't quess. Show the math

Is this by any chance your maths homework that you can't be bothered to do on your own?  ;)

[quote]Is this by any chance your maths homework that you can't be bothered to do on your own?

I think i figured out the math, i just dont have a calculator nearby to do it. And the windows calculator is a tad bit vague.

Just a shade under 1/100 of a mile.


I did post how I got there, but then again, that would ruin it for anyone else, so I've removed it.

Then my calculation wasnt as far off as i though it was .

Then my calculation wasnt as far off as i though it was .

Something to do with a geezer called Pythagoras I think.

Just a shade under 1/10 of a mile.


I did post how I git there, but then again, that would ruin it for anyone else.

(((100^2 + 1^2)^0.5)-100)*2

(10,001^0.5-100)*2

0.0099997500124992188046833987597394

Or  ~  1/100

The answer is  A

Just a shade under 1/10 of a mile.


I did post how I git there, but then again, that would ruin it for anyone else.

(((100^2 + 1^2)^0.5)-100)*2

(10,001^0.5-100)*2

0.0099997500124992188046833987597394

Or

Then my calculation wasnt as far off as i though it was .

Something to do with a geezer called Pythagoras I think.

How'd you guess eh? Smart fella for sure!

Just a shade under 1/10 of a mile.


I did post how I git there, but then again, that would ruin it for anyone else.

(((100^2 + 1^2)^0.5)-100)*2

(10,001^0.5-100)*2

0.0099997500124992188046833987597394

Or

Here's the answer from the paper:

A)1/100 of a mile. The pilot had flown about 100.005 miles (the square root of 100 squared divided by 1 squared) at the halfway point. So he had flown 200.01 miles by the time he got to his destination.

Is that verbatim? If so the paper is astonishingly inaccurate. If they bother to do the basic maths (math for our transatlantic cousins )...

the square root of 100 squared

Is that the "sqrt of (100^2)" [ie, 100], or the "(sqrt of 100)^2" [again 100, but a completely different meaning!]...

divided by 1 squared

...which is, er, 1.

or, the square root of...

100 squared divided by 1 squared

...which is 10,000/1, of which the sqrt is 100.

At no stage does their answer get anywhere near explaining where they got their extra 0.005 from.

If of course they'd said:

(the square root of (100 squared plus 1 squared))

They'd have been right.

Ummm..  who was it that said the answer was 1/10   :-?

[quote]Ummm..

Is that verbatim?

Yes, unfortunately the paper is not in error as I mistyped what I believed was a divide sign. Sorry, but my eyesight is slightly diminished due to having cataracts. Not too keen reading text on glossy paper.

I got a second opinion. It is a plus sign not a divide sign.

I apologize for the error on my part.