Hint
Light travels around 186,000 miles each second.
Answer
Miles that light can travel in 3 minutes.
There are 31,536,000 seconds in a typical year, and light can travel about 33,530,831 miles in 3 minutes.
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Puzzle 198
Practical Pat was asked to cut a 99-foot rope into three smaller, equal length ropes.
However, as usual, Pat couldn't find the measuring tape, so a guess took place!
When the tape was finally found (it was under a hat), Pat discovered that:
the second piece of rope was twice as long as the first piece, minus 35 feet the third piece of rope was half the length of the first, plus 15 feet
How long were each of the pieces of rope?
Answer
First = 34 feet.
Second = 33 feet.
Third = 32 feet.
Reasoning
This question can be solved using algebra. If we call the length of the first rope A, we have: Rope 1 = A Rope 2 = 2 x A − 35 Rope 3 = 0.5 x A + 15
The three ropes add to 99 feet: 99 = Rope 1 + Rope 2 + Rope 3 99 = A + (2 x A − 35) + (0.5 x A + 15) 99 = 3.5 x A − 20 119 = 3.5 x A 34 = A
