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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? 
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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)
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#4 2005-07-07 11:26:09
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Ganesh's Sun is AWESOME
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#5 2005-07-07 16:49:57
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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
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#6 2005-07-08 02:11:19
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Re: Creeper
Ganesh U r fantastic. u r jokes and problems are good. keep going. thanks
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#7 2005-07-08 03:17:37
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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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That's what I got, before I left it for others to solve. I wasn't sure if you were allowed to flatten it.
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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
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Re: Creeper
Ganesh U r fantastic. u r jokes and problems are good. keep going. thanks
srinithayyil
Thanks a lot for the compliment, Sreenithayyil !
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