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Santos-Dumont: Flying Balloon

Puzzles -> Sam Loyd Puzzles

puzzleA balloon propelled by some mechanical device travels five miles in ten minutes with the wind, but requires one hour to go back again to the starting point against the wind, how long would it have taken to go the whole ten miles in a calm, without any wind?




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