My house lies at the side of a curved shaped road. I usually take route A to get from the station to my house on foot but I thought that due to the width of the road and the long curve would it actually be shorter and therefore quicker to cross the road and take route B to my house. The only way I can find out for sure is to put it to rigorous scientific testing.
Aim: To see which of two routes is quicker to my house from the train station.
Method: I shall walk both routes counting the number of footsteps and timing the journey using the second hand on my wristwatch.
Results: My normal route A is 423 steps and took 4 minutes and 7 seconds to complete whereas route B took 391 steps and took 3 minutes and 48 seconds to complete.
Conclusion: The results of my experiment proved two things:
- Route B is shorter and quicker, therefore route B is now how I will walk from my house to the station. If I have to wait a total of 19 seconds for cars before crossing the road though, then I may as well have taken the old route.
- I truly am a geek.
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That illustration is great!
But being a geek is FUN!!!!!!!!!
Hey! i’ve done that before. i measured two different paths from my house to town.
Geek wasn’t the frist word that sprang to mind…
And have you tried getting to the end of the world? Is it like in Eric the Viking?
I’ve done that before…that makes another geek. But it’s okay, we’re cute geeks.