Track on a cone

Geometry Level 2

The diagram illustrates a right circular cone-shaped mountain.

If you build a shortest distance track for a siteseeing train around the mountain, in which the track starts at point A A and ends up at point B B , the track will first go uphill, but then it will go downhill.

What is the length of the downhill track?

The problem is from the Korean SAT, CSAT

300/√30 400/√19 300/√91 200/√91

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A solution is posted from Presh Talwakar, the owner of the YT channel Mind Your Decisions

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Please correct the answer into 400/√91

Saya Suka - 2 years ago

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