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#1 2005-07-06 18:48:42

Jai Ganesh
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Creeper

A creeper plant is climbing up and around a cylindrical tree trunk in a helical manner. The tree trunk has a height of 480 inches and a circumference of 32 inches. If the creeper covers a vertical distance of 60 inches in one complete twist around the tree trunk, what is the total length of the creeper? roll


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#2 2005-07-06 22:34:16

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Re: Creeper

Height = 480 inches.
Creeper gets 60 inches higher each twist, so would need 8 twists to reach the top.
But what length does it grow for one twist?


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#3 2005-07-07 03:31:15

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Re: Creeper

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Last edited by mathsyperson (2005-07-07 08:14:53)


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It wanted to be normal.

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#4 2005-07-07 11:26:09

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Re: Creeper

Ganesh's Sun is AWESOME


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#5 2005-07-07 16:49:57

Jai Ganesh
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Re: Creeper

First, we'd have to convert  the trunk into two dimensions.....
Now, we get a right angled triangle for one twist,
and one side of the triangle is 32 inches, height is 60 inches,
the hypotenuse is square root of
32^2 + 60^2
that is square root of
1024+3600,
eight times this value is the lenght of the creeper;
AND
Thank you, Mr.Administrator, for liking my avatar .


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#6 2005-07-08 02:11:19

sreenithayyil
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Re: Creeper

Ganesh U r fantastic. u r jokes and problems are good. keep going. thanks
srinithayyil

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#7 2005-07-08 03:17:37

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Re: Creeper

His website is good! What was it again? I forgot...........


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#8 2005-07-08 04:43:39

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Re: Creeper

That's what I got, before I left it for others to solve. I wasn't sure if you were allowed to flatten it.
Here's his site: http://www.geocities.com/ganesh91569


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#9 2005-07-08 09:42:34

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I had forgotten that spiral-triangle trick! I was trying to think in 3D and got well confoosed.


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#10 2005-07-08 23:53:14

Jai Ganesh
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Re: Creeper

sreenithayyil wrote:

Ganesh U r fantastic. u r jokes and problems are good. keep going. thanks
srinithayyil

Thanks a lot for the compliment, Sreenithayyil !


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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