| Friend | Location | Vehicle | Speed |
| There was so much snow in January that four of
Fishy's friends came up one weekend to his mountain cabin to visit and
to join him in some winter fun. Two of Fishy's friends were also male,
Dave, and Machy. And two were females, Twilight and Bev. Although all
had come by snowmobile they got into an agrument as to which was the
fastest non motorized winter vehicle. The winter transportation they
compared were a tire tube, a large disk, a plastic bobsled, a snowboard
and a toboggan. Bob was a forest ranger and had with him a radar speed
detector for checking snowmobile speed. Bob proposed that each pick
their own testing spot for maximum speed and he would clock each
"vehicle' at it's top speed. The spots the friends chose were:
Ghosttown slope, Pearl Ridge, Elk Creek Rd., The BLM Gate, and Deadwood
Gulch. The final speeds turned out to be: 15, 17, 25, 27, and 30 miles
per hour. Can you match each rider with his or her, vehicle, location,
and speed?
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| 1) The female who chose to ride down Pearl Ridge went
faster than Dave, but not as fast as the bobsled. The difference
between the speed of the snow disk which spun down through the snow,
and the weaving snowboard was exactly 10 miles per hour in some order.
Since Fishy was a little younger than Bev he didn't mention to her that
his time beat hers.
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2) Bev was not the one whose vehicle went 15 miles per hour. The
toboggan
reach the bottom of Elk Creek Road at a faster rate than the snow disk
traveled.
The rider of Pearl Ridge clearly beat the tire tube, but did not beat
Machy.
It was one of Fishy's lady friends who climbed the steep mountainside
just
beyond the BLM Gate, correctly guessing as she slid down the steep
incline
that she was traveling 25 miles per hour or faster.
3) There was a 2-mile-per-hour difference in the speeds of Machy and
Twilight
in some order. Although Fishy provided the old tire for one of his
friends
it was not the vehicle he rode.
4) Elk Creek Road proved a faster race course than Pearl Ridge.
Dave
was not the rider they referred to as the Pearl Ridge Streak. The
Bobsled's
fast descent beat Machy's time. Fishy tore down a steep slope faster
than
he ever had before to ensure he beat Twilight (who did beat the rider
on
the Ghosttown slope).