A Rabbit and a tortoise had a race on a race track of length 100 meters. The tortoise started from the 10 meter mark, because the rabbit was generous like me, and gave it a head start.
The tortoise travels at speed of 1 meter per second
The rabbit always travels half of the remaining distance to finish the race. For example, if rabbit is 2 meters away from the finish line, he will travel 1 meter.
Who will win?
(This is purely theoretical and not based on real life)
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The tortoise will have a constant speed of 1 m s − 1 , thus, in 1 0 0 s , the tortoise would have reached the finish line.
Though the hare doesn't take time to cover a distance, we know for sure that it will cover half the distance of the journey at every instance. No matter how many instances have passed, the hare can still split the remaining distance, and make it smaller and smaller as the instances pass. Thus, the hare will never finish the race.
Thus, the tortoise will win