Hi could someone give me their solution approach to this question for comparison?
Thanks in advance!
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Brainteaser: How many litres of water are there in the Atlantic ocean.
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Hi,
I will use the following approach:
You may use the speed of a plain as the benchmark and assume that the Ocean 1/2 of a Sphere:
- It takes X hours to fly from A to B over the Atlantic Ocean
- The average speed of a plane is Z
- Thus the radius of the Ocean is 1/2 * X* (Z-1) (Because it takes extra hour to take off and land)
- The volume of the sphere is 4/3 * p* rˆ3
- The volume of the Ocean is 1/2 * 4/3 * p * rˆ3 (Half of the sphere)
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