The
cache is not at the above coordinates.
My daughters and I decided to place a couple
of caches in honor of our 200th
geocaching
find. We have placed
puzzle caches, because we love the challenge they provide – one for
each of them.
This one was devised by my 5th
grader. You will need
to solve the following problems taken from her homework assignments
in order to obtain the correct coordinates.
You are seeking a
medium-sized plastic container.
Question #1
The final event of the first day of the
Animalympics is over, the Long Leap,
and the results are in.
The Copper Medal goes to Flora the Frog, the Brass Medal goes to
Sara the Spider, and the Tin Medal goes to Gilda the
Grasshopper. Flora
leaped 2 centimeters farther than Sara, who beat last year’s
distance record by 1
centimeter. Gilda came
in last, finishing 1 centimeter behind Sara, tying last year’s
record.
The combined total of
their jumps was 544 cm.
A = distance (in cm) that tin medal winner
leaped.
Question #2
Rainbow Robots Inc. was putting on a big
demonstration. Everyone
came to watch the colorful robots wash the windows at the Miller
Building. First the big
red robot washed one half of all the windows in the
building. Then the
smaller green robot washed two thirds of the windows that were
left. Next the blue
robot washed one half of the windows that were
left. To the cheers of
everyone watching, the tiny yellow robot washed the last 10
windows.
D = number of windows the big red robot
washed
B = total number of window washing robots
Question #3
The prairie dogs were having a town meeting to
talk about the blackfooted ferret that
was terrorizing the
neighborhood. One town
councildog suggested building a network
of tunnels connecting every burrow to every other
burrow. Then someone
said, “Are you crazy?
We have nine burrows.
That’s too many tunnels and too much money to build
them!” If each tunnel
costs $1.00 to build, how much would it cost the prairie dogs to
connect every burrow with every other burrow?
C = cost (in dollars) to build tunnels to
connect all nine burrows with each other.
The true cache coordinates are as follows:
N 35°
47.XXX
where XXX = 625 – C – D
W 078°
48.YYY
where YYY = 177 + A + B
Congratulations to Moncure Bee Dude =
FTF!