5-year olds shouldn't circumnavigate alien planets

Geometry Level 2

Susan is 5 Earth years old. She is also exactly 1 meter tall. On the planet Floobenweifer, there lives a race of aliens called Floobs that kills humans at night. To avoid the night, Susan walks faster than the planet is rotating, to keep ahead of sunset. The planet has a diameter of 500 kilometers, and she walks at 200 km/h. After completing a whole walk around the entire circumference of the globe, let X X be the difference between the distance Susan's feet go, and the distance the top of Susan's head goes. If X X can be expressed as a π a\pi , find a a .

Details and assumptions

  • Susan's feet never leave the ground.

  • Floobenweifer is a perfect sphere.

  • No Floobs or little girls were harmed during the making of this problem.

  • Susan is an insane runner.


The answer is 2.

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R1= 250m R2=251m X=2piR2-2piR1 X= 2pi(251-250) X=2pi(1) X=2pi

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