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Can you calculate the distance traveled by each tyre in that journey ?

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A man always keeps a spare tyre in his car. To make full use of all the five tyres, he changes the tyres in a manner that for a distance of 1, 00,000 km, each of them runs the same distance.

Can you calculate the distance traveled by each tyre in that journey ?

posted Mar 10, 2015 by Rahul Vaidya

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