A person has to cover the fixed distance through his
horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the
full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant
speed and then two of the horses ran away to some other
direction. So he reached the destination 48 hours behind
the schedule. If the five horses would have run 50 miles
more, then the person would have been only 24 hours late.
Find the distance of the destination.

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A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. Th..

Answer / asdf

he could have saved 24 hours had he had all five horses
running for 50 more miles ...

in order to save 48 hours he needs to cover 100 miles which
is the dist...

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A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. Th..

Answer / a.manikandan

150 miles

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A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. Th..

Answer / gaurav

its 100+33.33 ie 133.33 miles

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A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. Th..

Answer / nilesh

100 miles

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