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Problem
Keiko walks once around a track at exactly the same constant speed every day. The sides of the track are straight, and the ends are semicircles. The track has a width of meters, and it takes her
seconds longer to walk around the outside edge of the track than around the inside edge. What is Keiko's speed in meters per second?
Solution
Solution 1
Let be Keiko's speed in meters per second,
be the length of the straight parts of the track,
be the radius of the smaller circles, and
be the radius of the larger circles. The length of the inner edge will be
and the length of the outer edge will be
Since it takes
seconds longer for Keiko to walk on the outer edge,
Solution 2
It is basically the same as Solution 1 except you can completely disregard the straight edges of the track since it will take Keiko the same time to walk that length. Instead, think of it has just a circular track meters in width. If the diameter of the smaller circle were
then the length of the smaller circle would be
and the length of the larger circle would be
Since it still takes
seconds longer,
See Also
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