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A man walks at a speed of 4km/hours
A man walks at the speed of 4km per hour from point A to B and comes back from point B to A at the speed of 8km per hour. What is the ratio between the time taken by man from point A to B and B to A?


  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: September 02, 2009     Asked by: Amit Shakya 
  
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September 02, 2009 09:33:03   #1  
j.jeswin Member Since: September 2009   Contribution: 1    

RE: A man walks at a speed of 4km/hours

Consider the distance between points as x. Then time taken to cover the distance a-B be t1 and Between B-A be t2. Then x/4 t1 and x/8 t2. Dividing these two we get 2:1 which is the required answer.


 
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