Interesting math puzzle - harder than it sounds
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Interesting math puzzle - harder than it sounds
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#240 feet?
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#340 feet?
Nicely done. Take the diagonal!
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#4This one got my kids a bit interested but not enough to get them really engaged in trying to solve it. Anyone have fun puzzles for middle-schoolers?
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#540 feet?
I'm pretty sure this is the correct answer too.
Visualization tip: Consider the possible nets of the rectangular prism that makes up the room, and find what the shortest path on one of them would look like.
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#631 feet.
Ant jumps off the wall and onto the floor (no walking necessary, and easily survivable), walk straight across the 30 foot floor and 1 foot up the wall.
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#731 feet. Ant jumps off the wall and onto the floor (no walking necessary, and easily survivable), walk straight across the 30 foot floor and 1 foot up the wall.
Lol. That's out of the box thinking!
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#840 feet?
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#90 feet.
It's a flying ant.
Re: Interesting math puzzle - harder than it sounds
#10Does the ant have wings?