1. A fiacre carrying a policeman is traveling at 10 miles an hour towards Paris. At the same time, a coach carrying a convict and a child is leaving Paris travelling at 15 miles an hour. If they're both traveling to an inn 20 miles away,
2. Fauchelevent is stuck under a cart. If the cart weighs 375 pounds and is pressing down on a 8" by 3" area on his chest, how long will it take for Javert to become suspicious of the mayor?
3. A factory produces jet beads. If one worker working alone and performing all the steps in the bead-making process can make three jet bead necklaces per hour, and four workers, working together in assembly-line fashion, can produce twelve necklaces per hour,
4. While working at the shipyards in Toulon, Valjean falls from a yardarm. If he weighed 204 pounds and fell 37 feet into calm water,
5. Jean Valjean is gardening at the Petite-Picpus. He is really bored one day while Cosette is at school and counts all the daffodils, petunias, and roses on the grounds. There are 47 daffodils, 106 petunias, and 82 roses. Taking this into account,
6. Javert is trying to search the convent he thinks Valjean escaped into. He notices that the tops of the nuns' hats are triangular. If the angles at each corner of the hats are 90, 60, and 30 degrees, and the three sides measure 17", 26", and 15",
7. Valjean drops his hat in the sewer. If the rate of flow is .25 meters per minute, and the sewer is 2.7 miles long from the outflow grate to the point at which he dropped his hat,
Fan Fiction Word Problems
1. Marius's spinster aunt has set aside a 450,000-franc inheritance for Marius. The inheritance is placed in a bank at an interest rate of 3 percent compounded annually. Interest will stop accruing and the total will be paid upon the aunt's death. Marius's grandfather's money is mostly tied up in an annuity that Marius will not inherit, but he will receive 90,000 francs upon his death. If after M. Gillenormand dies the money is invested in cheese futures with an annual return of 18 percent,
2. Javert has decided to jump off a bridge. If he weighs 195 pounds and the distance from the top of the parapet to the surface of the Seine is 21.5 feet, then taking into account light crosswinds of 2 miles per hour, the Coriolis effect, the Seine's northward current of 3.6 miles per hour, and the fluid dynamics of a class one rapids,
3. The Friends of the A.B.C. are meeting in the Café Musain. If Grantaire is drinking at a rate of 7 ounces of red wine per 10 minutes and he weighs 177 pounds, then assuming that he's drinking on an empty stomach and that the rate at which his blood absorbs alcohol is constant,
a) which will arrive first? By how many minutes?
b) what is the probability that the carriage is being drawn by a gray gelding?
a) how much more efficient is the team of four workers than the single workers? Express your answer in terms of percentage.
b) will the beads go well with your spinster aunt's lavender dress?
a) what are the odds of his renting a room in a tenement that the Thénardiers will inhabit years later?
b) what are the odds of his eventually relocating to the covenant where his old acquaintance Fauchelevant works?
c) what is it with Victor Hugo and coincidences?
a) what percentage of the flowers are daffodils? petunias? roses?
b) how long will it take for Valjean to get tired of wearing that damn bell all the time?
a) what kind of triangle are the hats?
b) what is the surface area of one of the hats?
c) if Javert promises to wear one of the hats while he is inside, will the nuns let him in?
a) how long will it take the hat to reach the grate?
b) how long will it take Marius to realize that, being the only other survivor of the barricade, Valjean must have been the man who saved him?
a) how much money will Marius receive upon his grandfather's death? His aunt's death? If the grandfather dies 5 years before the aunt does, upon her death how much money will Marius have from the cheese futures?
b) how long will it take Cosette to realize that her husband is kind of a putz?
c) how long will it take for Marius to realize that he really loved Eponine instead of Cosette, invent a time machine, travel back to the barricades, save her, and live happily ever after?
a) how long, in seconds, will it take him to hit the water?
b) how long, in minutes, will it take him to wash up on the bank?
c) how long, in minutes, will it take him to be found by a young, attractive, yet conveniently unattached woman?
d) how long, in seconds, will it take him to get laid?
a) how long will it take his blood alcohol content to reach .05? .08?
b) how long will it take him to become aware of a latent but nonetheless deeply felt and serious attraction to Enjolras?
c) how long will it take for Enjolras to realize he feels that way too?