Thursday, February 16, 2017

The bookworm that loves Pushkin

Two volumes of Pushkin, the first and the second, are side-by-side on a bookshelf. The pages of each volume are 2 cm thick, and the cover – front and back each – is 2 mm. A bookworm has gnawed through (perpendicular to the pages) from the first page of volume 1 to the last page of volume 2. How long is the bookworm’s track?

This one is possibly from Vladimir Arnold.


Ans: 4mm

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