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Putnam 1971 B3

  • Session B

B-3. Two cars travel around a track at equal and constant speeds, each completing a lap every hour. From a common starting point, the first starts at time t=0t=0 and the second at an arbitrary later time t=T>0t=T>0. Prove that there is a total period of exactly one hour during the motion in which the first has completed twice as many laps as the second.

Dataset text PutnamGAP. Quoted with source.

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