The Bear Problem

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  Harshad Italiya

  Is it Polar bear? Then Answer is White. 😒
  
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Right... This everyone knows... Say the reason behind it... 😀
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  Harshad Italiya

  praveenscience

  Right... This everyone knows... Say the reason behind it... 😀

  Reason is question itself. 😁
  A bear walks south for one kilometer, then it walks west for one kilometer, then it walks north for one kilometer and ends up at the same point from which it started. What color was the bear?
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  I don't get you! I mean, unable to understand... 😔
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  Harshad Italiya

  praveenscience

  I don't get you! I mean, unable to understand... 😔

  In the question you have asked for the Color of Bear so I replied with the Color. 😀
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  maria flor

  godfather

  Reason is question itself. 😁
  A bear walks south for one kilometer, then it walks west for one kilometer, then it walks north for one kilometer and ends up at the same point from which it started. What color was the bear?

  So the answer here is Red???
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Lets see for more replies... I am waiting for THAT exact answer... 😛
  
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  Harshad Italiya

  praveenscience

  Lets see for more replies... I am waiting for THAT exact answer... 😛
  
  Secret Code

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  White is wrong answer?
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  White is the right answer... Just waiting for the exact explanation how it is... 😀 GF's answer is right... Explanation needed... 😛
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Just one more reply and am posting the answer here... 😀
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Let me guess, the bear starts at the north pole 😉
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  bharathpb

  yes ..Big K..truly..
  
  The bear starts at North pole ...walks south ..1km...again turns west ..1 km ..and goes back to north ..1km ..So in fact it will reach the starting point..that means the location is north pole....so in fact it will be polar bear...so white...
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Oki, I guess Biggie and BharathPB is somewhat right... Let me say the answer...
  

  The bear was white because it was a polar bear. The only place on earth where a bear can go south, west and north equal distances and end up where it started is the North Pole.
  
  Actually, the bear could go west two or five kilometers instead of one and it would not make any difference -- the bear would be making a circle around the North Pole. East and West you travel along parallels which are circles equidistant from the poles. North and South you travel along meridians which are circles that cross both the north and the south poles.
  
  There is another way to go south, west and north one kilometer and end up at the original point without starting at the North Pole*. Start 1 + 1/(2Ï€) kilometers (approx. 1.16Km) from the South Pole. Walk one kilometer south, then one kilometer west (which is a complete 1 Km circle around the South Pole), and finally, one kilometer north to the starting point. However, there are no bears in Antarctica; there are only penguins.
  
  At least one polar bear has actually been tracked by satellite traveling from Alaska to Greenland across the north pole region. Bears of other colors, e.g., grizzlies, Alaskan black bears, Russian brown bears, etc., never venture north of the continental land masses. Polar bears are not restricted by the boundaries of the land because they have partially webbed forepaws and are excellent swimmers. Their scientific name, Ursus maritimus, means "sea bear".

  My Source: Answer to the Bear problem.
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  ProdigiousJ

  So it pertains to the North and South poles or poles of any sphere for that matter. But it is also polar opposite in color of a black bear living in about a polar opposite climate as well. This brings polar bears all around.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Ha ha... In that case, we can have one polar bear per house! 😛
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  silverscorpion

  I think North pole or south pole is an area, and not just a point on the earth's tip. Earth is not a perfect sphere.
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Its at the Earth only...
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  zara mari

  praveenscience

  A bear walks south for one kilometer, then it walks west for one kilometer, then it walks north for one kilometer and ends up at the same point from which it started. What color was the bear?

  White because it came back to where it started. Usually the polar bears remain or go back where they live compared to other types of bear. As the problem goes - "it walks north and ends up at the same point from which it started."
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  zara mari

  White because it came back to where it started. Usually the polar bears remain or go back where they live compared to other types of bear. As the problem goes - "it walks north and ends up at the same point from which it started."

  Your answer is also convincing... But all the bears do that right???