The Interesting Test - Answer 3

A person starts walking up a narrow mountain path at 6:00 a.m. The person walks at different speeds, stopping to eat, sometimes going back a few steps to look at a flower, but never leaving the path. The person eventually arrives at the top at 10:00 p.m. the same day, camps out over night and starts down the same path at 6:00 a.m. the next day. After stopping to eat and so forth the person arrives at the bottom at 10:00 p.m.

True or False: There is some point on the path that the person occupied at exactly the same time on the two different days. Explain your answer.


True
Imagine that on the first day a clone of the person starts down the mountain at 6:00 a.m. and arrives at the bottom by 10:00 p.m. The person and the clone have to pass each other at some point.


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