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geometry intermediate
Problem
Keiko walks once around a track at exactly the same constant speed every day. The sides of the track are straight, and the ends are semicircles. The track has a width of meters, and it takes her seconds longer to walk around the outside edge of the track than around the inside edge. What is Keiko's speed in meters per second?
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(B)
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Solution
Let be Keiko's speed in meters per second, be the length of the straight parts of the track, be the radius of the smaller circles, and be the radius of the larger circles. The length of the inner edge will be and the length of the outer edge will be Since it takes seconds longer for Keiko to walk on the outer edge,
Final answer
A