anyone here a math person?

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Car A and car B are racing on a track.

Car A got 8 min 28.1 sec (20.8 Km)
Car B got a 8min 44.7 sec in (22.8 KM)

however car B traveled 2Km further than car A before it's time was stopped.

so how would you calculate who really won?

Im thinking that car A still wins because 2km shouldnt make an 11 second difference.
 
Umm... Any chance of posting the problem as it is written? I'm having trouble understanding it how you've written it.
 
Surely you need to know the distance covered to work it out? You would need either the distance or the speed. You can't just work it out from the time.
 
Car A averages 147.37km/h.
Car B averages 156.43 km/h.

Wherever the finish line is, Car B passes it first.

Here's your cowcliations:

Car A reached 20.8km in 8'28.1s
Average speed is distance/time = 20.8km/508.1s
=0.0409km/s = 147.37km/h

Car B reached 22.8km in 8'44.7s
Average speed is distance/time = 22.8km/524.7s
=0.0434km/s = 156.43km/h
 
OK, I'll hand it back to Famine now!! :D

EDIT: See! ^
 
Given the rate at which we're being drip-fed parts of the problem, I have NO idea.

Errr... why the Chelsea avatar, Klos?
 
I stole it from Race Idiot. I don't even know what it is. I assume it's the logo to a soccer (football)/rugby/cricket team. Unless you people watch some other ridiculous sport that I am unaware of.

Chelsea Football Club?
 
I figured that... I just didn't know why... :D

It is Chelsea Football Club, yes. Based on Fulham Road, London (SW10, or is it SW17..? I forget). Used to go past there on my way to work. Just about recovered now.

If you want to go all fanboy, their best players are Carlo Cudicini (the goalkeeper - like a netminder but not), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (a striker - like a running back, but not), Adrian Mutu (another striker), and Frank Lampard Junior (a midfielder - sort of like a quarterback, but most certainly not).
 
I would suggest that a midfielder was more a running back, and a striker was more a wide receiver. But there you go...

Klos, since you have only a distance and a time, you have to infer average speed. It doesn't actually matter what the speed is at any given time, over the period, only the average is significant. You're aware of the legend of the tortoise and the hare, one assumes.
 
Surely a winger would be a wide receiver? Would Carlo be the quarterback? And who's the safety?

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
You're aware of the legend of the tortoise and the hare, one assumes.
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And that's not a legend. I've seen pictures....
 
Well, the way this would be calculated would be to determine the speeds of the two cars (average Velocity=Distance/Time). Whoever has the highest one of those probably won.
 
Which, handily, I already did.

Lampard is definitely a quarterback - he distributes the play around the pitch. Hasslebaink and Mutu receive the ball for the score - so running back or wide receiver. But the winger would be better described as the wide receiver - maybe Joe Cole?
 
Of course Zenden's moved to Middles-boro in a mult-i-million dollar switch. Middles-boro are 3 and 0 since Zenden's arrival.
 
Yeah, the opposition should really double team Zenden. The off-fence is too good with him in it.

They are especially good when they are wearing their road uniforms, unless it's muddy, then they always wear the wrong size cleats.
 
Mancity did well the other day in a spectacular reverse from a threenothing deficit at the innerval - even after having a man dismissed. The Spurs couldn't capitalise on the power play and ended up going down four to three!
 
Originally posted by skylineGTR_guy
Car A and car B are racing on a track.

Car A got 8 min 28.1 sec (20.8 Km)
Car B got a 8min 44.7 sec in (22.8 KM)

however car B traveled 2Km further than car A before it's time was stopped.

so how would you calculate who really won?

Im thinking that car A still wins because 2km shouldnt make an 11 second difference.
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work out how fast B was going in m/s and then divide 20,800 by that speed to work out the time in seconds.
Im broed so Ill give you the answer.
Car B = 7 mins and 58.68 secs.
 
Originally posted by Crayola
work out how fast B was going in m/s and then divide 20,800 by that speed to work out the time in seconds.
Im broed so Ill give you the answer.
Car B = 7 mins and 58.68 secs.
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Im quotin myself because I meant to press edit:
Bugger famine go in with the answer first, ah well I had the same idea, only I did it a bit differently.
 

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