Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/49 - Exploring the Desert
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $49$
- Exploring the Desert
- Nine travellers, each possessing a motor-car, meet on the eastern edge of a desert.
- They wish to explore the interior, always going due west.
- Each car can travel $40$ miles on the contents of the engine tank,
- Unopened tins can alone be transferred from car to car.
- What is the greatest distance at which they can enter the desert without making any depots of petrol for the return journey?
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Locomotion and Speed Puzzles: $49$. -- Exploring the Desert
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Speed & Distance Puzzles: $76$. Exploring the Desert