Question

A tortoise challenges a hare to a four-hour race. The hare is so confident of winning that he allows the tortoise to start with a 10-km lead. The hare runs at a speed of 14 km per hour, but stops for a two-hour nap in the middle of the race. The tortoise plods along at 4 km per hour the whole race. Who gets farther in four hours?

Answer 1

Answer: The tortoise made it.
Explanation: Because in the first place the challenge was to run a four hour race. So the focal point was to make it in 4 hrs, we see the tortoise continuously running in the race for four hours in which he covers a distance of 4km per hour which when we multiply the 4hrs with 4km distance he covered, we will discover that he covered a distance of 16km in 4hrs, so for him its mission accomplished. On the other hand the hare only covered a distance of 14km which he covered in an hour, but that wasn't the challenge, the challenge was to run for 4hours. So not only did the tortoise cover a longer distance, but he also achieved the four hour challenge.