Question

In a potato race,a bucket is placed at the starting point,which is 5m from the first potato,&other potatoes are placed 3m apart in a straight line
a competitor starts from the bucket,picks up the nearest potato runs back with it,drops.it in the bucket, runs back to next potato & continues it in the same way until all the potatoes are in the bucket what is the total distance the competitor has to run
this is a ques from Arithmetic progression class 10 solve it with the formula of class 10 only

Answer 1

answer is the total distance run is 16 m