I'm very poor with math and hoping someone can help me with a question.
The odometer is reading 8000km but it's reading speed incorrectly and logging the speedo speed to the odometer. For KMs 2000-6000 it's logging at 18kmph over, and 6000-7000 is logging 10kmph over. What is the accurate reading it should be showing?
More details:
If a motorcycle travels:
1000km with accurate speedometer reading
6000km with the speedometer reading 18kmph over actual speed (50kmph reads 68kmph roughly)
1000km with the speedometer reading 10kmph over actual speed. (50kmph reads 60kmph roughly)
How many actual kilometers were traveled?
I don't know how to phrase this question to look up an answer online.
If I can do it by % change the sprocket ratios are:
13/43 for 1000km
13/50 for 6000km
14/50 for 1000km
Would I calculate the % increase in kmph from the actual kmph to the indicated kmph and then subtract that from the indicated odometer reading (for 1k,6k,1k)? If I'm traveling 30% slower than indicated can I just subtract 30% of the total odometer reading (km) for that time frame when I was running whatever gear ratio?
Thanks to anyone who wants to help! I know this isn't a challenging question in the slightest to a lot of you here but I'm not sure where else to ask for proper help.
Thanks so much! If there is a more relevant place to post please let me know. Also this isn't a elementary textbook question I'm just putting on a new speedometer unit for my dualsport, haha.
There is not enough information to answer the question.
For example suppose the 5000 km middle stretch were run with the speedometer reading a constant 50 km/hr. Then the bike was actually traveling 32 km/hr, and actually travelled 3200 km. But suppose instead, the bike were running at speedometer reading of 100 km/hr. Then the bike was actually trying 82 km/hr and travelled 4100 km. Or a third scenario: The speedometer reading was a constant 18 km/hr the entire time. In reality, the bike never left its garage. The actual travel distance was 0 km.
All of these scenarios fit the information given. Ignoring the constraint of physical plausibility, the bike could have travelled any distance between $0$ and $5000$ km during the middle stretch, and similarly, the bike could have travelled any distance between $0$ and $1000$ km during the final stretch.