Joe and Andrea want to copy three 60-minute cassette tapes. They have a 2-cassette recorder to copy the tapes, allowing them to copy two tapes at a time. Each side takes 30 minutes to be copied, so two tapes can be copied in an hour and the third will take another hour. Andrea bets Joe she can copy all three tapes in 90 minutes. Does she win the bet?
In the first 30 minutes Andrea copies the A sides of tape 1 and 2.
In the second 30 minutes, she copies tape 1 side B and tape 3 side A (finishing Tape 1).
In the last 30 minutes, she copies tape 2 side B and tape 3 side B.
2 Comments on "Copying Cassette Tapes"
Mark W says
August 2, 2022 @ 01:15
Thanks for another nice set of puzzles, Dan!
Ramon says
August 19, 2022 @ 02:54
I’m feeling pretty good about myself to have figured this one :-)
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