March 1, 2015

Wrotten Apple !

An apple is in the shape of a ball of radius 31 mm.
A worm gets into the apple and digs a tunnel of total length 61 mm,
and then leaves the apple. (The tunnel need not be a straight line.)
Prove that one can cut the apple with a straight slice through the center so that one of the two halves is not rotten.

2 comments:

  1. Diameter of the apple is 62cm.. And Worm digs the tunnel of 61 cm ..
    as tunnel length is small it should be on one part of the apple.. When u cut it into two ... in parallel to the tunnel u wil get the other half which is not rotten.

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  2. the question was weak... what if the diameter of the tunnel is, lets say, 10mm?

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