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« on: Aug 5th, 2002, 11:11am »
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I tried to put the bus here.  Hopefully it will still look somewhat like a bus.  Anyway, there are no overly aparent signs on the bus' direction (which would be directly related to what side of the bus is the front) since the bus is completely symetrical.  The only way to solve this is to determine what side of the bus you are looking at.  Thus, you get the solution.  The side of the bus shown does not have a door.  We are assuming that this bus drives on the right side of the road (aka, drives using american driving rules).  Therefore, the door should be on the right side of the bus as to allow people to get on it at bus stops and whatnot.  This makes for the assumption that the bus is a standard bus with the door on the front.  If the bus were going to the right, then there would be a door on the right side of the bus in the picture.  Since this is not the case, it must be assumed that the door is on the other side of the bus, on the left side, and that the bus is going left.
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« Reply #1 on: Aug 7th, 2002, 12:54am »
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If this is a trick question,  then the most likely answer is that it's not moving, it's a stationary image.
On the other hand, if this is not intended as a trick question, then I think you need to ask one question. The choice of question is probably not important, but may be "at which end is the driver sitting?", or "are the wheels that I can see turning clockwise or counterclockwise?".
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« Reply #2 on: Aug 7th, 2002, 9:26am »
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Eviljed's diagram clearly shows that the bus in question has come into violent contact with a heavy stationary object on the left side of the frame.  Therefore, I surmise that immediately prior, it was indeed travelling leftward, and at quite high speed.
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« Reply #3 on: Aug 8th, 2002, 10:20am »
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Eviljed is almost correct (not withstanding the mangled bus he posted that looks like the bus left over from the movie Speed.
 
The bus is definitely facing towards the left side.  
 
But you need to ask if the bus is moving in forward or reverse.  After that you know which way the bus is moving.
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« Reply #4 on: Aug 8th, 2002, 3:14pm »
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There's no driver window, no mirrors, and no door...so I must assume I'm looking at the back of the bus (greyhound?).  My monitor is on the left hand side of my desk; therefore, the bus is moving "forward" to the left.
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« Reply #5 on: Aug 10th, 2002, 1:13pm »
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on Aug 8th, 2002, 10:20am, Ryan Fisher wrote:

But you need to ask if the bus is moving in forward or reverse.  After that you know which way the bus is moving.

 
The problem statement says: "The bus is moving forward."
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« Reply #6 on: Aug 11th, 2002, 11:14pm »
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Just ask which side the exhaust is located  (never heard of an exhaust coming out from the front) Cool
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« Reply #7 on: Aug 23rd, 2002, 2:10am »
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Ask if the wheels are moving clockwise or counter-clockwise from your point of view.
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« Reply #8 on: Aug 31st, 2002, 5:29pm »
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One of my friends says:
 
"Neither, it's moving forward in time."
 
Another one said:
 
"You should move the paper to the right and say "it's moving this way"".
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« Reply #9 on: Sep 5th, 2002, 12:51pm »
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AAAAH!
 
It's coming right towards me!!!
 
(throws hands in air and runs out of the interview)
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« Reply #10 on: Sep 6th, 2002, 10:11am »
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Just do like the ancient Greeks and say that it's not moving at all, and that movement is just an illusion. Cheesy
 
After all, if you look at it with smaller and smaller time increments, eventually you'll get to a point where it's not moving at all during that time. So it moves zero distance, and if you sum up all those infinite zero distances, you have zero distance still, so the bus isn't moving.
 
QED.
 
 
(Maybe you'd get credit for knowing what the Greeks thought of motion...)
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« Reply #11 on: Sep 6th, 2002, 11:15am »
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East.
 
Just like everything else Wink
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Re: Moving Bus Direction  
« Reply #12 on: Sep 6th, 2002, 11:24am »
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Answer: That is not a bus. It is just a picture of a bus. An infant may identify a picture of an apple by saying "apple", but the picture does possess all properties of an apple (eg. edibility).
 
The "bus" is not a bus, and cannot move. Therefore, its direction of motion is undefined.
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« Reply #13 on: Sep 6th, 2002, 11:35am »
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Whichever way it's moving--we've got to stop that bus!
It's got no tires!
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« Reply #14 on: Nov 14th, 2002, 8:14pm »
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It is moving away from me, into the page. The circles are the backs of the heads of the kids making a ruckus on the back seat.
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« Reply #15 on: Nov 15th, 2002, 7:46pm »
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It's moving up and down as I fiddle with the scroll bar on this window.  Grin
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« Reply #16 on: Dec 1st, 2002, 12:00pm »
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The bus is moving, because if it slows down it will blow up(speed) and look worse than the diagram.
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« Reply #17 on: Dec 17th, 2002, 1:01am »
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1. If you're allowed to ask any questions, ask "Which way is the bus moving, to the right or to the left?"
 
2. Busses do not move sideways, busses move forwards and backwards.  This bus is moving forwards, as stated.
 
The door, yes...  hmf.
Of course, most busses are not symmetrical even from their left side, so maybe the door was just another detail omitted.
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« Reply #18 on: Jan 1st, 2003, 7:04am »
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The perspective indicates we are looking at the bus from the far side of the road (or else we would have been inside a building), consequently it moves to the left.
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« Reply #19 on: Jan 2nd, 2003, 2:05am »
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the busis moving towards right
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« Reply #20 on: Feb 13th, 2003, 12:01am »
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Ask, in which direction is the wind around the bus is moving.  Usually, as the wind pierces through the wind, it gets displaced and moves in the direction opposite to the bus is moving...
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Re: Moving Bus Direction  
« Reply #21 on: Feb 16th, 2003, 7:57am »
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you mean wind relative to the bus?  Otherwise the bus drags air along with it, so same direction.
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« Reply #22 on: Mar 3rd, 2003, 8:57pm »
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Don't You all see, Thats a picture of the windshield, the circles are the passengers heads. Its simple, whoever it was that said it was heading towards them is right, because if -- assuming that its a real bus and not JUST a picture-- it is moving forward then it is heading straight toward you. The reason that the circles go inward to the middle is because of perspective. I think that you college guys should start to think outside the box, I'm a grade ten student, FROM CANADA!
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Re: Moving Bus Direction  
« Reply #23 on: Apr 15th, 2003, 10:06pm »
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It is moving the same way planet Earth is moving.   Wink
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« Reply #24 on: Apr 22nd, 2003, 8:02pm »
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Someone mentioned ask where the driver is sitting. This is good, but the bus design could have the driver sitting at the back of the bus. A better answer would be which way is the driver facing. You could go further to ask if he uses mirrors to look in the direction of the bus moving forward. Another good way is to check which way the wheels are spinning.
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