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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $226$
- The Circulating Motor-Car
- A car was running on a circular track such that the outside wheels were going twice as fast as the inside ones.
- What was the length of the circumference described by the outer wheels?
- The wheels were $5$ feet apart at the axle-tree.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $226$. -- The Circulating Motor-Car
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Circle Puzzles: $290$. The Circling Car