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If a man, A, who weighs 11 stoneleaves from his home at 8:30 in the morningin a car whose consumption is 16.25 mpgat an average speed of 40 m.p.h.to his office which is 12 miles awayand he stops for a coffee on the way for 15 minutesand also puts air in one of his tyreswhich has a slow punctureletting out air at a rate of 2 lbs per square inchper mile travelledwhen the car is moving at 32 m.p.h.and he picks up a hitch-hiker Bwho weighs 14 stone plus suitcaseBut hitch-hiker B who is a political activistdistributes leaflets from his suitcaseeach of which weigh an ounceat the scale of 2 leaflets per personat every bus stopand every vehicle on either side of themat every red traffic light during the journeywhich includes 20 bus stopswith an average of 6 people per stop5 lorries each with a passengerone of which exchanged a Yorkie Barweighing an ounce for 12 of the leafletsand 2 coaches each containing 51 peopleSongtexte7 of which from one coach returned the leafletsand 16 people from the other coachwho asked for a further leafleteach for a member of one of their familiesAssuming that man Athen had to travel a further 2.86 milesout of his way to drop off hitch-hiker Bhow late would man A bein arriving at the office by 9:30 a.m.?If he still had 6 miles to traveland his watch was running 23 minutes slowbut the clock at the office was running2 minutes faster than hiswas in fact 17 minutes and 3 secs aheadof the correct timewhich was 2:30 in the morning in CaracasIf when 5 miles from the officehe telephoned his bossto apologize for being latebut was told by his boss Cto pick up a package 2.63 miles awayfrom his present locationand deliver it to client D in Bristol by train,by 4:30 that afternoonand at the same time man Dwas mistakenly told to come to Londonto receive same package from man ANow man A's train, train 1,left 30 mins. latebut man D's train, train 2,left 5 mins earlyso when the trains passed each othertrain 1 was travelling at 75 m.p.h.to make up for lost timeand train 2 was travelling at 52 m.p.h.Would man A reach Bristol earlier or lateraccording to his watchwhich was now running 5 mins. slowerthan man D's would have beenhad he not got off the trainand checked the correct timeat a station between Bristol and Londonand stopped to phone A's boss, man Cto double check A would be there to meet himand discover his mistakecatch next train, train 3, back to Bristolwhich unlike A's train 1which stopped at 4 stations on the wayfor 6 mins each stopwas an express trainD's train caught up with A's train 14 miles from BristolAs the trains drew alongside each otherA's train was travelling at 12 m.p.h.and D's train was travelling at 13.6 m.p.h.and man A was sat in the frontHow long would it take to fill the bath? Aus Songtexte Mania