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by goyalsau » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:18 pm
Two missiles are launched simultaneously. Missile 1 launches at a speed of x miles per hour, increasing its speed by a factor of √x every 10 minutes (so that after 10 minutes its speed is x(√x), after 20 minutes its speed is x(√x)(√x), and so forth. Missile 2 launches at a speed of y miles per hour, doubling its speed every 10 minutes. After 1 hour, is the speed of Missile 1 greater than that of Missile 2?

1)x=√x
2)x>8

[spoiler]I marked A Because i thought for x=√x , should be 1 ,
but the answer is C don't know why? [/spoiler]
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by blaster » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:26 pm
we don't know information about "y" , how the answer can be C?
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by Viktri » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:36 pm
Probably a typo in information I)
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by goyalsau » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:39 pm
blaster wrote:we don't know information about "y" , how the answer can be C?
I thought that speed of missile Y is doubled in every 10 minutes
so even the speed of missile Y is .1 even then after 60 minutes it will be greater than 1,
But what if the speed of missile why is .001 at the start,

you are right So now A is out but why C,
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