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PQ is a tunnel. A dog sits at the distance of 5/ 11 of PQ from P. The train whistle coming from any end of the tunnel would make the dog run. If a train approaches P and dog runs towards P the train would hit the dog at P. If the dog runs towards Q instead, it would hit the dog at Q. Find ratio of speed of train and dog?

 

Option: 1

5:2


Option: 2

16:5


Option: 3

11:1


Option: 4

34:3


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Option 3 - 11:1

########            P____5_____¶______6_____Q

"¶" is the dog located inside the tunnel PQ and #####... is a train approaching to it. 

Case 1 - Dog decides to reach point P 

Distance covered by Dog - 5 parts and train reaches at P

Case 2 - Dog decides to run towards point Q

At the time train reaches to point P, the dog covers 5 parts in direction of Q. Now the left out part covered by dog will be 1 part towards Q .

At the time dog covers 1 part and reaches Q, train covers whole 11 parts of tunnel and reaches from P to Q. 

So, 11 part of train is eual to the 1 part covered by the dog to reach Q. 

Ratio of their speeds - Train:Dog = 11:1  

 

 

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Vaibhavi Gupta

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