Sheep Speed

Level 2

There is a train with a sheep on it. The sheep is running at a speed of 2 miles per hour in the same direction to the train. The train is travelling at 60 miles per hour. How fast is the sheep travelling relative to the ground? Answer to the nearest whole number.

Note: the equation to solve this question is S = v 1 + v 2 1 + v 1 v 2 c 2 S=\frac {v_1 + v_2}{1 + \frac {v_1 * v_2}{c^2}} where v 1 v_1 and v 2 v_2 are speeds of the train and sheep, c c is the speed of light (300 000 000 m/s) and S S is the answer.


The answer is 62.

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1 solution

Aleeza Razzaq
Dec 26, 2013

we jus have to read the problem carefully , and after that by substituting the values in the given formula we get the answer.

Note that the speeds are too small for v 1 v 2 c 2 \dfrac{v_1v_2}{c^2} to have any significance. So the answer is just 60 + 2 = 62 60+2=\boxed{62} .

Daniel Liu - 7 years, 1 month ago

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