Road Scholar B

[Anomaly]

East to West

Easy question. Your turn.

Ahem...posting a question anybody?

Someone else can post a question. I'm out of ideas right now.

[dxu46]

Unless someone posts in the next 24 hours, I'll post again.

[Anomaly]

I'll go then...

Easy Question (Click to Show Hidden Text)

What color does pink represent on a topographic map?

[dxu46]

I'll go then...

Easy Question (Click to Show Hidden Text)

What color does pink represent on a topographic map?

Urban areas (cities, towns)

[Anomaly]

I'll go then...

Easy Question (Click to Show Hidden Text)

What color does pink represent on a topographic map?

Urban areas (cities, towns)

Correct. Your turn.

[dxu46]

Math (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Joe lives on the intersections of the west and south neat lines.  He wants to go to the local pho store, whose noodles are really good! (Sorry I  <3 pho).  The pho store is exactly 2.5 minutes east of the northeast graticule tick mark.  If there is a road running from Joe's house to the pho store, at what bearing would Joe be traveling on if he headed to the pho store?

[spoiler]Hint: use trigonometry (tangent and arctangent are probably the easiest)[/spoiler]

[Fanglin]

Answer: N33.69˚E at the equator, assuming he is in the US, the bearing would be more north, because longitude isn't a universal fixed distance at different latitudes.

Another hard math one (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Joe's house lies in the center of the NW1/4|S12 | T14N | R4W, how many feet is it to the crossing of his local PLSS Equator and Meridian?Hint: [spoiler]How many miles x miles is a section?...  Use trig too[/spoiler]

[Tailsfan101]

Let's start this up again...

Contour interval: 20 feet (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Ted is at the bottom of a hill, holding a map. He sees that he is standing right on a contour line, yet it is unlabeled. He notices that a thicker contour line 40 feet above where he is standing is labeled "2450". He then proceeds to walk up the hill, crossing 6 contour lines and stopping at the seventh. What is his elevation after he has climbed the hill?

[rainbowunicorns]

Let's start this up again...

Contour interval: 20 feet (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Ted is at the bottom of a hill, holding a map. He sees that he is standing right on a contour line, yet it is unlabeled. He notices that a thicker contour line 40 feet above where he is standing is labeled "2450". He then proceeds to walk up the hill, crossing 6 contour lines and stopping at the seventh. What is his elevation after he has climbed the hill?

Answer: 2550 feet? (I'm not very good at reasoning stuff...)

[Tailsfan101]

Let's start this up again...

Contour interval: 20 feet (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Ted is at the bottom of a hill, holding a map. He sees that he is standing right on a contour line, yet it is unlabeled. He notices that a thicker contour line 40 feet above where he is standing is labeled "2450". He then proceeds to walk up the hill, crossing 6 contour lines and stopping at the seventh. What is his elevation after he has climbed the hill?

Answer: 2550 feet? (I'm not very good at reasoning stuff...)

Correct! Your turn.