Go the Distance with Careetone

Algebra Level 4

Suppose that the tires on the rear of your brand new Careetone will wear out after 33600 33600 kilometers, whereas tires on the front will wear out after 46400 46400 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?


The answer is 48720.

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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 } 1600 1600 , leaving us with the the rear tires being able to go 21 21 kilometers and the front tires being able to go 29 29 kilometers. Now suppose you go x x kilometers, the front tires will wear down by x 21 \frac{x}{21} while the back tires will wear down by x 29 \frac{x}{29} .
The total amount of wear will be 2 × x 21 + 2 × x 29 = 100 x 609 2 \times \frac{x}{21} + 2 \times \frac{x}{29} = \frac{100x}{609} . 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 × 609 100 x × x = 609 20 5 \times \frac{609}{100x } \times x = \frac{609}{20} . Scaling that back up by the factor of 1600, we get the final answer to be: 609 20 × 1600 = 48720 k i l o m e t e r s \frac{609}{20} \times 1600= \boxed{48720 kilometers} .

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