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An ant is traveling on a 1meter long rope at 1cm/seconds but also the entire rope is being stretched by an extra........

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An ant is traveling on a 1meter long rope at 1cm/seconds but also the entire rope is being stretched by an extra 1meter/second.
Is it possible for the ant to reach at the end of the rope?

posted Mar 20, 2017 by Balwinder

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