Can You Smell It?

Calculus Level 1

A bottle of perfume is opened and a person at a distance 10 10 m gets the smell after 10 10 seconds. How much time(in seconds) will the smell take to cover a distance of 20 20 m?


The answer is 20.

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2 solutions

If 10 m is smelt in 10 seconds ,the ratio 10:10 is 1 meaning that the speed of the smell is 1 m /s so to make the ratio 20: x x 1

We make it 20.

Jess Late
Aug 4, 2019

it would take 20s because it travels 10m in 10s so a speed of 1m/s. Thus it would take 20 seconds to cover 20 meters

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