Right Foot Forward...

[Sriman Dutta]

Hello I got an interesting puzzle here. ;-)

 

A short man takes three steps to a tall man's two steps. They both start out on the left foot. How many steps do they have to take before they are both stepping out on the right foot together ?

[imatfaal]

Hello I got an interesting puzzle here. ;-)

 

A short man takes three steps to a tall man's two steps. They both start out on the left foot. How many steps do they have to take before they are both stepping out on the right foot together ?

 

They will never both step out on the right foot together. At zero Big Man/Little Man steps they are both L. After Big Man has made two steps the small has made three so Big Man is L and Little Man is R and they are in sync. After two more steps Big man has made 4 steps and the small has made six to Big Man is L and Little Man is L and they are in sync. You are back to initial configuration - you will never get out of this loop - the only times they are in sync is either both L or Big Man L and Little Man R.

[Sriman Dutta]

Well that's correct.....

[AbstractDreamer]

They both start out on the left foot.

 

Small ambiguity.

 

They both start out <by standing> on the left foot.

 

OR

 

They both start <by stepping> out on the left foot.

[Sriman Dutta]

Hmmmm............Thaaaaaannnnnnnnkkkkkkkssssss

[AbstractDreamer]

Makes a big difference to the answer!

[DevilSolution]

the answer is 1

 

the first left step, then they're both on the right, if by together you mean distance then its always odd and they will both be on the left foot at the same time in distance.