Two men run a race of 200 meters Man A wins by 10 meters Because of this they decide to make things fairer for the next race by making Man A stand 10 meters behind the line thereby giving Man B a 10 meter head start They both run the second race at exactly the same speed as before What is the result?

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Man A again wins We know from the first race that Man A runs 200 meters at the same time that Man B runs 190 meters Therefore, it follows that as Man A starts 10 meters behind the line, the men will be dead even at 10 meters short of the winning line As man A is the faster runner, he goes on to overtake man B in the last 10 meters and win the race.

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