Old Snowplow Project

[Qacer]

One morning it began to snow very hard and continued snowing steadily throughout the day. A snowplow set out at 8:00 A.M. to clear a road, clearing 2 mi by 11:00 A.M. and an additional mile by 1:00 P.M. At what time did it start snowing?

Before tackling the problem, the following assumptions are made:

1). The rate of snow fall is constant.
2). The rate of progress of the snow plow is inversely proportional to the depth of the snow.


I thought I'd throw this in for fun. Enjoy! 🙂

 

[Demon-Xanth]

It snowed when I went out with Cindy Crawford.

 

[Qacer]

Haha.. According to our calculations, it started snowing around 1:42 AM.

 

[thirdeye]

While I'm not math expert, how is this even remotely solveable?

 

[Qacer]

If you use the assumptions and differential equations, then you can get to a decent answer.

 

[nakedfrog]

I was expecting plans for a snowplow or something...