A Transition to Advanced Mathematics
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ISBN: 9781285463261
Author: Douglas Smith, Maurice Eggen, Richard St. Andre
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 1.6, Problem 7E
Starting at 9 a.m. on Monday, a hiker walked at a steady pace from the trailhead up a mountain and reached the summit at exactly 3 p.m. The hikercamped for the night and then hiked back down the same trail, again starting at 9 a.m. On this second walk, the hiker walked very slowly for the first twohours, but walked faster on other parts of the trail and returned to the startingpoint in exactly six hours. Prove that there is some point on the trail that the hiker passed at exactly the same time on the two days.
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A Transition to Advanced Mathematics
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