How Many?

[smartypants10101]

if it took an average man 15 mins to walk 1 mile , then he stopped for a break for 30 seconds then walked half a mile back then stopped for a further 30 seconds and returned to the end point of his original journey , how long has it took him to walk the half mile back ?

[jim360]

bhg, I realised you realised I was joking :P

smartypants, please can you just go through your working/solution from the beginning. You've lost us all, with your dancing between different units if nothing else.

[nescio]

We all appear to have read it correctly. You appear to have not written it correctly.

[bednobs]

yeah i know but in trying to explain it the op said "the original ending point ofthe whole journey in total" I was just making a point that even that doesnt make sense!

[smartypants10101]

its one of those riddles where if u dont read the question correctly, then it will get you lost in a maze of maths. the statistics on the number of people who failed to find an answer is only 5 % of people who tried it found the correct solution .

[wiltsman]

Considering this 'question' now has replies stretching to three pages, I can only assume that a lot of ABers, like me, are snowed in today, with not a lot else to do!

[jim360]

I estimate that at least 90% of those who got it wrong did so because the question was badly-presented.

[wiltsman]

........... make that four pages!

[Mamyalynne]

I hope he was well wrapped up, it's very cold.

[bhg481]

smarty //its one of those riddles where if u dont read the question correctly, then it will get you lost in a maze of maths.//

No, it's one of those riddles where you have to be specific when asking the question. You asked "How long to walk?" when you meant "How long to travel?"; one question includes breaks, the other doesn't.

[smartypants10101]

the question wasnt wrote wrong on the site , i may o f got 1 or 2 things wrong but it wouldnt make any difference to the answer anyway, all i got wrong was the mph which should of been kmph, and i was only guessing the speed which i also got wrong but again the speed he walked isnt the issue , the question was ''how ong did it take him to set off again after his first 30 second break , to get to the original ending point .

[jim360]

What's the source then.

[bednobs]

err no it wasnt, the question was "how long has it took him to walk the half mile back"

[nescio]

before this turns into a slanging match over the incomplete/ erroneous wording of the question,
smartypants,
can you please find the original question and write it out verbatim.

[bhg481]

To sum up then, you asked the wrong question, got the units mixed up when calculating your answer and then accused everybody else of getting the answer wrong. OK.

[bednobs]

which actually makes no grammatical sense either

[smartypants10101]

what source ?

[jim360]

The site where you got this question from. Can you provide the link to where you got this question ?

[chelle7272]

Source = what site did you get this from?

[bednobs]

"what source"
that's what nescio is asking you