Your solution is great! But what if they were a little sneakier and asked you how much time would elapse before the tree was 16 feet? ;)
>> But what if they were a little sneakier and asked you how much time would elapse before the tree was 16 feet? ;)
I’d be screwed and break my pencil and you’d win. (Or get to vote. Whatever.)
Younger, nimbler mind and all. :-)
LOL...I had to assume they made the question the way they did specifically to see if you could find the easy way to solve it, but...I am in Massachusetts, and odds are the test was “designed and administered by liberals” as noted above...:)