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Answer 1

Hmm… The wording in this problem is a little tricky to me, so I'm assuming that its an alternating pattern (poor monkey).

For the first minute the monkey is at 4 meters

For the second minute monkey is at 2 meters ( because he slips down)

So basically every 2 minutes, he's climbing 2 meters

so every minute he's climbing 1 meter

so it's going to take that monkey 15mins to climb 15 meters ( man that monkey is slow!)

Answer 2

Not quite.
After 12 minutes he has climbed 12 meters
In the 13th minute, he climbs the final 3 meters and is done.

Final time is thus 12:45

Answer 3

Ah, that is true! at 12 minutes he did climb 12 meters

and it took him another .45 seconds to climb the rest.

Wow, I completely neglected some stuff here.

Thanks for clarifying Steve!

Answer 4

Well, as long as I'm clarifying

:-) :-) :-)

That would be 45 seconds, not .45 seconds

Or, if you insist on decimals, try .75 minutes!