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Horseback riding with Mathcad - The winning worksheets for download

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These are the winning worksheets from our "Horseback riding with Mathcad" contest that we had run on the Mathcad blog in May/June 2011.

To recap, the problem was:

An army 40 miles long advances 40 miles while a messenger on horseback rides from the rear of the column to the front and back to the rear. How far has the messenger ridden? Assume that the messenger travels at a constant speed and his direction of travel is either parallel (or opposite) to the movement of the army.

For this puzzle, however, we received only two correct solutions. I suppose you guys have been very busy with your real work and rather spent time doing more serious calculations with Mathcad, so I take it as a good sign.


We will be running a new puzzle over the summer months, so stay tuned for more...

Thanks to everyone who participated and congratulations to the winners, Otfried Georg from Germany and Richard Jackson from the US!

Cheers!

Bettina

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