A bookshelf has three encyclopedia volumes: A-I, J-R, and S-Z. They are in the usual order, left to right on the shelf. The covers are 1/16" thick. Each book has pages numbered 1 to 1000. Each sheet of paper is 1/250 of an inch thick.
If a bookworm chews its way from page 1 of the A-I volume through page 1000 of the S-Z volume, how far did it travel?
(You may decide whether or not the bookworm ate the starting page and the ending page; use whichever assumption makes your computation easier.)
6.25 inches
I got this as well, but something about this whole thing makes me think that Doctor Q is going to do something clever and show us how wrong we are.