A spider is in a rectangular room that is thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and twelve feet high. She is perched on an end wall one foot from the ceiling and six feet from each wall. She wants to reach a point on the other end wall one foot from the floor and six feet from each wall. If she takes the shortest route to her destination, how far does she walk?
She does no web slinging in this case.
Not a bad answer… in fact it is the best answer given to this question so far. Unfortunately, that is farther than she wants to walk. I believe there is a shorter route.
Unfortunately, when she jumped that 11 feet - she impacted the ground so hard that she broke all 4 legs off of one side. She is valiantly trying to continue across the floor but is walking in circles. She has walked 50 feet so far but has only managed to get three inches closed to where she is wanting to be. It's not looking good for her.
41 foot.
ok she walks down 10 foot jumps the last foot and walks across 30 foot and up 1 foot.
or 40 foot and jumps 2 feet.
39 foot jumps 3 feet
etc, etc
If she takes the shortest route to her destination, how far does she walk?
Walk. No jumping. No flying. No swinging. No dropping. No bouncing. No sliding. No hitchhiking. No teleporting. Walk the shortest distance between point A and point B.
if i had a ruler i'd draw a square 12x54 and mark the points and see if walking a diagonal line is shorter than straight down across and up, but i don't so can't measure anything.
