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Godley & Creme
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If a man, A, who weighs 11 stone
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leaves from his home at 8:30 in the morning
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in a car whose consumption is 16.25 mpg
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at an average speed of 40 m.p.h.
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to his office which is 12 miles away
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and he stops for a coffee on the way for 15 minutes
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and also puts air in one of his tyres
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which has a slow puncture
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letting out air at a rate of 2 lbs per square inch
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per mile travelled
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when the car is moving at 32 m.p.h.
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and he picks up a hitch-hiker B
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who weighs 14 stone plus suitcase
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But hitch-hiker B who is a political activist
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distributes leaflets from his suitcase
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each of which weigh an ounce
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at the scale of 2 leaflets per person
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at every bus stop
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and every vehicle on either side of them
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at every red traffic light during the journey
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which includes 20 bus stops
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with an average of 6 people per stop
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5 lorries each with a passenger
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one of which exchanged a Yorkie Bar
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weighing an ounce for 12 of the leaflets
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and 2 coaches each containing 51 people
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7 of which from one coach returned the leaflets
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and 16 people from the other coach
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who asked for a further leaflet
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each for a member of one of their families
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Assuming that man A
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then had to travel a further 2.86 miles
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out of his way to drop off hitch-hiker B
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how late would man A be
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in arriving at the office by 9:30 a.m.?
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If he still had 6 miles to travel
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and his watch was running 23 minutes slow
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but the clock at the office was running
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2 minutes faster than his
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was in fact 17 minutes and 3 secs ahead
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of the correct time
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which was 2:30 in the morning in Caracas
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If when 5 miles from the office
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he telephoned his boss
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to apologize for being late
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but was told by his boss C
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to pick up a package 2.63 miles away
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from his present location
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and deliver it to client D in Bristol by train,
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by 4:30 that afternoon
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and at the same time man D
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was mistakenly told to come to London
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to receive same package from man A
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Now man A's train, train 1,
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left 30 mins. late
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but man D's train, train 2,
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left 5 mins early
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so when the trains passed each other
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train 1 was travelling at 75 m.p.h.
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to make up for lost time
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and train 2 was travelling at 52 m.p.h.
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Would man A reach Bristol earlier or later
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according to his watch
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which was now running 5 mins. slower
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than man D's would have been
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had he not got off the train
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and checked the correct time
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at a station between Bristol and London
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and stopped to phone A's boss, man C
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to double check A would be there to meet him
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and discover his mistake
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catch next train, train 3, back to Bristol
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which unlike A's train 1
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which stopped at 4 stations on the way
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for 6 mins each stop
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was an express train
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D's train caught up with A's train 1
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4 miles from Bristol
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As the trains drew alongside each other
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A's train was travelling at 12 m.p.h.
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and D's train was travelling at 13.6 m.p.h.
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and man A was sat in the front
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