Physics, asked by arihantagarwal03, 8 hours ago

An insect crawling up a wall crawls 6 cm up in first second and then slides 4
cm down in next second. It again crawls up 6 cm in third second and again
slides 4 cm downwards in 4th second. How long will insect take to reach a
hole in wall at a vertical height of 24 cm from starting point?

Answers

Answered by sonuvuce
4

The inscet will take 19 s to reach a hole in the wall at a vertical height of 24 cm

Explanation:

Given:

An insect crawls up a wall 6 cm in first second and then slides down to 4 cm in the next second and it repeats the same

To find out:

The time taken in reaching a vertical wall of 24 cm height

Solution:

Since, the insect crawls up a wall 6 cm in first second and then slides down to 4 cm in the next second

Therefore, in 2 seconds, the inscet will cover the distance = 2 cm

In 18 seconds, the inscet will cover the vertical distance = 18 cm

After that in the next second i.e. in 19th second, it will again climb up 6 cm and reach the hole (as 18 + 6 = 24)

Thus, the time taken by the inscet = 19 seconds

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Answered by amitnrw
3

Given :  An insect crawling up a wall crawls 6 cm up in first second and then slides 4 cm down in next second.

It again crawls up 6 cm in third second and again slides 4 cm downwards in 4th second.

To Find :  How long will insect take to reach a hole in wall at a vertical height of 24 cm from starting point

Solution:

crawls 6 cm up in first second and then slides 4 cm down in next second.

=> in 2 secs       ,  it goes up by   4 - 2  =  2 cm

Distance of 2 cm   in 2 secs

=> on average 1 cm every sec

at first it looks like it will take 24 sec to go 24 cm  

but once insect reach 24 cm ( in hole ) then it will not slide back

Hence 24 - 6 = 18 cm    , So time taken would be  

time taken to reach 18 cm  and then 1 more sec to reach 24 cm

it will take 18  sec to go 18 cm  

Hence Total time taken = 18  +  1     =  19 secs

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