Question

Imagine that you set your watch at local noon in Kansas City on Monday and then fly to the Coast on Tuesday. You stick a pole into the ground on a sunny day at the beach, wait until its shadow is shortest, and look at your watch. The watch says 10:00 am. Are you on the East Coast or West Coast?

Answer 1

Answer: East Coast

Explanation:

The problem states we need to find whether the person is on the East Coast or West Coast.

Now, we know that the shadow is shortest when the Sun is at the highest point in the sky. So it means the noon time is 12:00 P.M. Now this is the local noon time which you have set in Kansas City. Now you flew to the Coast and it says 10:00 am which means you have traveled to a place where noon comes early. And noon comes early on Eastern Coast so you are on the East Coast.