Question

Scouts of ABC school made to run around a regular hexagonal ground fig 9, of perimeter 270 m .If they started running from point X and covered two fifth (2/5th) of the total distance.Which side of the ground will they reach?

Answer 1

Scouts are on the third side in the sense they are running

Explanation:

A regular hexagonal shape of perimeter 270 has each side of 270/6 = 45

Let´s call d the run distance then

d = 2/5 * 270 d = 108 m

We don´t have fig 9 available therefore if X is a vertex in the hexagon or at the middle point of one side, scouts are 108 m from the starting point which means they had run 2,4 sides of the hexagon. If X is not either a vertex or a middle point of a side then, we have two solutions for the question depending on the sense the scouts took when began the run (clockwise or counterclockwise)