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In regards to the quiz about the 2 satellites orbiting the earth….i have drawn a picture when i first worked it out to be 27 months. The question has to be read properly. It asked, when will the 2 satellites and the earth next be in a straight line ( not to be confused with when they are all back in their original positions.
Please see enclosed drawing.Big black dots are satellites at start and smaller ones are satellites when they are in a straight line with the earth. In order to work this puzzle out, i immediately thought of 9 x 3 and it made 27. Obviously it can’t have meant 27 years so i needed to draw a diagram.
The quiz gave 15 minutes to get the answer and i took about 25 and the quiz takes in actual times as well as official ones to gather scores at end of chapter. A lot of quizzes give one time limits to work them out and then calculate your I.Q or brain speed at the end. I just do them for fun and was quite impressed with my self i got this one in 25 minutes.
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I can only assume you’re drunk or on the wind up
Why not phrase your question properly ” When will the satellites be directly opposite each other” which isn’t what you asked at all in the thread thats been deleted. You say “the answer you got was 27 ” yet you already know the answer as you are quoting it from a book. My answer to the question you originally asked was correct .. there was no mention of any “straight line” .
Your question was ” when would the satellites be lined up from the earth ” .. in your drawing they are at different sides of the hemisphere . They would only be lined up from the earth when one passed another again which is 4 .5 years… no one viewing those satellites from earth would see that as being ” lined up”
All i can say is that you read the original question again mafia. I think you’ll find it states ..”WHEN WILL THEY NEXT FORM A STRAIGHT LINE WITH THEM SELVES AND THE EARTH?” The puzzle was written word for word straight out the book, i guessed 27 before i looked up the answer and then had to draw a diagram to prove i was thinking along the same lines as the book. It’s an I.Q quiz. I don’t go into space to check it out. I just use a pen and paper. Let’s just agree to disagree and move on.
All i can say is that you read the original question again mafia. I think you’ll find it states ..”WHEN WILL THEY NEXT FORM A STRAIGHT LINE WITH THEM SELVES AND THE EARTH?” The puzzle was written word for word straight out the book, i guessed 27 before i looked up the answer and then had to draw a diagram to prove i was thinking along the same lines as the book. It’s an I.Q quiz. I don’t go into space to check it out. I just use a pen and paper. Let’s just agree to disagree and move on.
The straight line is mentioned but the question is using the earth as the epicentre of the whole topic . If you said ” when is the next solar eclipse ” we would all answer when it was visible from earth not neptune or wherever. From earth it would take 4 and a half years for the satellites to form a straight line. The question you got from the quiz book which you inferred was yours should state ” From a view away from earth as the epicentre when could you draw a line through all 3 celestial bodies” but it reads “When will they next form a straight line with them selves and the earth?” If you are using the earth as the focus of the question then the correct answer is as I stated 4 years 6 months.
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Ok then in conclusion…mafia….we’re both right. Well done.(Shakes mafia’s hand)
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lol lets move on
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