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Time Taken For The Journey

A RED ant is sitting on one side of a table (point X) and a BLACK ant is sitting on the opposite side of the table (point Y).


Time Taken For The Journey

Now both of them decides to exchange their places and starts crawling. On the way, both of the ants meet and after that, it takes 20 seconds for the RED ant to move to point Y and it takes 5 seconds for the BLACK ant to reach point X.

Time Taken For The Journey

Find out the total time taken by the RED and the BLACK ant to make the journey.

Here are steps to calculate! 

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Calculation of Time For The Journey


What was the journey?

Let the speed of RED ant is R & that of BLACK ant is B

Let time taken by them to meet be T.

Now we will apply the basic formula of distance:


Distance = Speed * Time.


The
RED ant travels R T distance before meeting and 20 R after the meeting.

The
BLACK ant travels B T distance before meeting and 5 B after the meeting.


Now as per the question,The distance traveled by RED ant before they both meet will be equal to the distance covered by BLACK ant after they meet. We can say the same for the vice versa case as well.

Calculation of Time For The Journey

Thus,

RT = 5B and BT = 20R
i.e. B = 20R/T, putting in RT = 5B

R T = [20R/T] * 5

RT = 100R/T

T^2 = 100

T = 10.

Thus the RED ant will require 10 + 20 = 30 seconds to travel the distance.

And the
BLACK ant will take 10 + 5 = 15 seconds to travel the distance. 

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