Here is a fun problem I encountered in high school.
Two cows are grazing in an enclosed square-shaped field of side length s meters. They are both tied by two ropes to the two adjacent corners of the field. Due to the ropes, they both will be able to graze only on a fraction of the field. Determine the the area of the field grazed by these two cows. Result should be rounded on 4 decimal points.
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Jean-Marie Sainthillier
on 25 Jul 2014
Area of the grazed field no ?
rifat
on 26 Jul 2014
yeah.. mistake and corrected. Thanks for pointing out :-)
James
on 8 Aug 2014
How long are the ropes? Are they also s meters long?
rifat
on 8 Aug 2014
yes
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