Monday, January 11, 2010

Story Problem

Q. Jeff Lynne, Manfred Mann, and Julia Child are each standing at the three corners of a right-angled isosceles triangle, where the hypotenuse is 5.8x m in length. If Manfred Mann is 0.04x ft tall and Jeff Lynne has just written "Strange Magic," how long will it take the musical geniuses, walking at an equal +0.0004x m/s velocity, to reach Julia Child at the right angle, where she will teach them to whip up a deliciously catchy "Blinded By the Electric Light Orchestra" rock ballad casserole?


A. Julia Child will take one step and crush them both with the pestle that is her size 15 foot.