I cannot stop loving the book A Moscow Math Circle – Week by week problem sets by Sergey Dorinchenko. So here is another one from this great collection.
Anisha and Arushi are riding down an escalator. Halfway down the escalator, Arushi grabbed Anisha’s hat and threw it on the up escalator (and such things often happen!). Anisha ran up the down escalator in order to run down the up escalator after her hat. Arushi ran down the down escalator in order to run up the up escalator after the hat. Who will be the first to the hat? Assume the speeds of the girls relative to the escalator are equal and do not depend on the direction of motion.
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Alok : in the case where both Arushi and Anisha have speed ‘v’ greater than the speed of the escalator. They will reach the hat at the same time = 2*m/v where ‘m’ is half the length of the escalator. For speed less than or equal to the speed of escalator, Arushi will win