Ram and Shyam run a race between points and apart. Ram starts at 9 AM from A at a speed of , reaches and returns to at the same speed. Shyam starts at from at a speed of , reaches and comes back to at the same speed.
At what time do Ram and Shyam meet each other ?
Ram and Shyam run a race between points and apart. Ram starts at 9 AM from A at a speed of , reaches and returns to at the same speed. Shyam starts at from at a speed of , reaches and comes back to at the same speed.
At what time do Ram and Shyam meet each other ?
Solution
According to the question, at 10:00 AM, Ram will have reached B (as his speed is 5kmph and he travelled for an hour, starting at 9 AM)
And Shyam will have reached halfway to B (He would take 30 minutes to reach B but he only travelled 15 minutes, since he started at 9:45 AM)
Now Ram is heading back towards A, hence Ram and Shyam are heading towards each other.
At 10:10 AM, 10 minutes after, Ram will have travelled m (He travels 5000 every 60 minutes, so we divide by 6 to find out how much he travelled in 10 minutes)
And Shyam will have travelled m
The sum of these distances, km, which was the distance between them at 10:00 AM. Hence they'll meet at 10:10 AM.