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Dodgy Maths Question Yo

Scenario: Person A of height 1.63m is moving at a constant velocity of 1.3 ms-1 towards west, carrying an unzipped bag on her right shoulder with a 0.1m x 0.1m opening. Bird B is flying at a constant velocity of 15 ms-1 towards north, 2m above Person A, carrying a 0.1m x 0.1m soaked piece of bread (C) of mass 0.3 kg in its beak. Bird B releases Bread C at unknown time t.

Question: Assume that there is no air resistance, calculate the probability of Bread C landing directly into Person A’s bag.

Answer: Apparently not zero.
Source: Life.

P.S. Yes, this could have been much, much worse.
P.P.S. I hate birds.

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5 responses to “Dodgy Maths Question Yo”

  1. Keat Avatar
    Keat

    hi ya, nice blog you have here smile

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  2. Vickie Avatar
    Vickie

    Hi! bigsmile I just wanted to let you know…my name is Vickie and I also am Cantonese (Assuming that since you came from Hong Kong, that you know some sort of Cantonese). I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE MISPELL MY NAME TOO. I just wanted to say that. smile Cool blog you have here too! Bye!

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    1. Vickie Avatar
      Vickie

      ALL CANTONESE-SPEAKING VICKIES UNITE!

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  3. Meg Avatar
    Meg

    If I were you, I would not have turned a slightly unfortunate situation into an infinitely more unfortunate one by making it into a physics problem. Eeek physics.

    Also, I’m really happy for you that it was soggy bread and not bird shit.

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  4. Whitney Avatar
    Whitney

    that is… so unfortunate. sad

    if it makes you feel any better, my friend had her sun roof open while driving, and a bird pooped, and it went directly into the sunroof, (luckily) missed her head, and splattered/covered the entire back seat. she didn’t even see it until 2 days later. (semi) lucky for her, she had leather seats.

    at least it landed in your bag and not your face. smile

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