The Magic Coffee
A hiker finds that the higher he goes, the warmer his coffee gets. If the ratio of temperature to altitude is , and the temperature is , how high up is he?
The answer is 73.75.
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1 solution
The solution is that he is 73.75 meters high up. It is a very simple problem: the temperature must first be divided by 2, then multiplied by 5, getting us 73.75 meters.