AQuA-RAT train #86391 · Algebra · Algebra word problems
Two travelers set out on a long odyssey
Two travelers set out on a long odyssey. The first traveler starts from city X and travels north on a certain day and covers 1 km on the first day and on subsequent days, he travels 2 km more than the previous day. After 3 days, a second traveler sets out from city X in the same direction as the first traveler and on his first day he travels 12 km and on subsequent days he travels 1 km more than the previous day. On how many days will the second traveler be ahead of the first?
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AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #86391
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