Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (3rd Edition)
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Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
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- 3. Your college quadrangle is 85 meters long and 66 meters wide. When you are late for class, you can walk (well, run) at 7 miles per hour. You are at one corner of the quad, and your class is at the directly opposite corner. How much time can you save by cutting across the quad rather than walking around the edge?
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