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A frog wants to clime a 30.5ft well It can clime 3ft in and hour and slips 2ft. How many hours the frog takes to finish the clime ?

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29 hours
@ (3-2)=1 ft/hr,frog takes 28 hours to climb 28 ft.
At the end of 29th hour,it will climb another 3 ft.,finishing total 28+3= 31 ft.
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in 26 hours, the frog will go 26 ft, in 27th hour, he will go 3 feet but still .5 feet left...so in 28th hour he will finish
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