Suppose that the tires on the rear of your brand new Careetone will wear out after kilometers, whereas tires on the front will wear out after kilometers. Also, suppose that five identical tires, including the spare, come with the car. If you can easily change the tires whenever you want, what is the maximum distance that you can drive with your Careetone?
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To simplify the problem, we can scale down the number of kilometers the front and back wheels can go by a factor of } 1 6 0 0 , leaving us with the the rear tires being able to go 2 1 kilometers and the front tires being able to go 2 9 kilometers. Now suppose you go x kilometers, the front tires will wear down by 2 1 x while the back tires will wear down by 2 9 x .
The total amount of wear will be 2 × 2 1 x + 2 × 2 9 x = 6 0 9 1 0 0 x . Maximum distance occurs when we evenly distribute the amount of wear between all 5 tires. The number of kilometers that can be covered by the tires is: 5 × 1 0 0 x 6 0 9 × x = 2 0 6 0 9 . Scaling that back up by the factor of 1600, we get the final answer to be: 2 0 6 0 9 × 1 6 0 0 = 4 8 7 2 0 k i l o m e t e r s .