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In a flag race, a pole is placed at the starting point, which is 10m from the first flag and the other flags are placed 6m apart in a straight line. There are 10 flags in the line. Each competitor starts from the pole, picks up the nearest flag, comes back to the pole and continues the same way until all the flags are on the pole. Find the total distance covered.

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Solution

We have,
d1 = distance travelled to pick up the first flag
= 10 + 10 = 2 × 10 = 20 m
d2 = distance travelled to pick up the second flag
= 2 × (10 + 6) = 32m
d3 = distance travelled to pick up the third flag
= 2 × (10 + 6 + 6)
= 44 m
d10 = distance travelled to pick up 10th flag
= 2 × [10 + (10 - 1) × 6]m = 128
This forms an A.P with a = 20, d = 12 and n = 10
Total distance travelled
=d1+d2+d3++d10Sn=n2[2a+(n1)d]=102 [2×20+(101)12]=5(40+108)=5×148
= 740m

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