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A man visits a shopping mall almost every day and he walks up an up-going escalator that connects the ground and the first floor. If he walks up the escalator step by step it takes him 16 steps to reach the first floor. One day he doubles his stride length (walks up climbing two steps at a time) and it takes him 12 steps to reach the first floor.If the escalator stood still, how many steps would there be on sight?
i am not sure but is the answer 48 ?
Is the answer 8???I Found it in a crooky way..
Sanatsn sharma is absolutely right.Please explain it ....
@sanatan sharma:Which grade r u in ? R u going any coaching for iit jee?
presently i am in grade 10 ; going through the final examination phase
yeah i am looking forward to some coaching for iitjee but the proposed present pattern has disturbed me.
the solution is :
first of all you must know the concept of escalators , as some steps from above disappear new ones appear from below thus the total no. of steps remain constant
the total height of the staircase = the man in first case took sixteen steps + the steps that disappeared in the time taken to cover the sixteen steps [ assume the escalator to be still ]
= 16 + say x
in second case the total height of the staircase = 24 (since he took 2 steps at a time ) + 3x/4 (since the time is 12 steps)
equate both these
you will get x as 32 and adding 16 you will get 48
now the assumption i have made is that the time taken to cover 2 steps at a time is th same as it takes to cover 1 step at a time
and in fact it is correct since 3x/4 would become 3x/2 thus resulting in negative values
But,What i dont understand is how did u get 3x/4 in the second case?
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