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The Canoe Race
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The Canoe Race The Canoe Race A group of canoeists on holiday at the seaside decide to have a race offshore. They set up a triangular course using a buoy and two other floats, with the start and finish at the buoy. They have been told that the prevailing current flows parallel to the shore at a speed of about 2 ms-1. If the total course is to be 300 metres long investigate where they might place the other two floats. Problem: How does the layout of the floats effect the time taken to complete the race? I would like to investigate two different models one being a right-angled triangle and the other being isosceles triangle. When investigating the isosceles triangle, an equilateral triangle would be investigated because as the length of the isosceles triangle will all equal, it becomes an equilateral triangle. I would first of all investigate the right-angled triangle. Model 1:...
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