A Utah Man

[mjkwallis]

A Utah man drives a wagon 30 feet across the flats. He yells "Gee ho!" and then drives the wagon 30 feet. He yells "Haw!" and then drives the wagon 10 feet. He yells "Whoa!" How far is the man from where he started?

[NYyankees]

10ft

[Trigger]

wrong. There are two turns

[MrIxolite]

He is back where he started (or at least could be) If he drove 30ft one way then turned back at a slight angle, forming an isoscoles triangle , then the remaining 10 ft could be the "base" part , returning him to the start. Sorry I'm no good at geometry or math or I'd be able to provide the angles.

[house]

ok he drives 30ft turns around and goes back 30ft leaving him where he started, therefore he only traveled a total of 10ft

[scotl]

there are three different commands there people.

[aleamon]

ok..gee ho means right haw ' left whoa stop

[halfgryphon]

The answer is 10!

[chriz]

I also have 10 ft.

[Thomas]

10 foot is correct.

[xavier]

10 ft

[rnl229]

yo! he doesn't get any farther then when he started he's still sitting on the same seat.

[daughters7]

ok. not getting the 10 ft answer. is the starting point from where he yells gee ho or did he already drive 30 ft then yell it

[maddenguru]

Think of hypotenuse people.

[Malice]

Your all wrong. He drives out 30, turns right traveling another 30, and then left another 10. He's a Utah man, so american terms. Western horse breeding, Gee ho means right, not turn about. Now just do a few line movements to follow the Pythagorean theorum, you have 30 squared + 40 squared = "C" squared. Figure it out from there.

[keiwal]

Gee ho means turn right, haw means turn left

[gjulie26]

i would say he is 20 feet from where he started.

[sniper141]

I've looked up "Gee ho" which means to turn right. "Haw" does not mean to turn left, but to turn back around (180 degrees), like turning a team of oxen around. "Whoa", we know means to stop. So you have 3 sides of the triangle. Side A is 30 feet, Side B is 20 feet (the distance of 30 feet and then "haw" turned back around for 10 feet). Side C is the missing side, so that should come out to be 36 feet away from the starting point.

[zippy12287]

what if it's a complete trick question and the answer is in the first line. like a kindergarden joke. a man drives a wagon 30 feet across the flats.

[TNOFRINK]

MJK use your head not this web site?