POW #12: The Big Knight Switch PROBLEM STATEMENT: For POW 12‚ I am asked if four knight’s‚ (two black and two white) can switch places‚ while perpendicular to each other‚ (meaning two black knights are on one side of a 3x3 chess board with two white knights adjacent to them. They‚ were feeling restless and decided to attempt to see if this were possible. Keeping in mind the following guidelines: · No two pieces can occupy the same square · Knight’s can pass or jump over each other
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the US experienced a massive economic boom. Being the only power‚ after the war‚ with a stable economy‚ Government and infrastructure‚ people saw the US as an investment. However‚ the economic boon was not only due to the First World War. The motor industry experienced rapid development‚ alongside the economy‚ in the 1920’s to keep up with the demand of the changing American population. But to what extent was the motor industry responsible for the economic boom? A critical factor in the motor manufacturing
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POW Problem Statement A. A farmer is going to sell her eggs at the market when along the way she hits a pot hole causing all of her eggs to spill and break. She meets an insurance agent to talk about the incident‚ and during the conversation he asks‚ how many eggs did you have? The farmer did not know any exact number‚ but proceeded to explain to the insurance agent that when she was packing the eggs‚ she remembered that when she put the eggs in groups of 2-6 she had even groups with 1 left over
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number of ways to determine which item has a greater or lesser value. Process From the previous POW it was concluded that it would take 5 weighings as described by the equation for an unknown item value: However‚ this is an overestimate as there is a way to determine the lighter of nine items with only two weighings. This was overlooked in the last POW (Eight Bags of Gold). Nine items can be weighed by dividing into three sets of size three. Comparing two sets together would
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POW 16: Spiralaterals Problem Statement: Spiralaterals-a spiralateral is a sequence of numbers that forms a pattern or a spiral like shape. Spiralaterals can form a complete spiral-like shape or it could form an open spiral that never recrosses itself or return to it ’s original starting point. To make a spiralateral: Each spiralateral is based on a sequence of numbers.To draw the spiralateral‚ you need to choose a starting point. The starting point is always "up" on
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Problem Statement: There was a very economic king who gathered up all the gold in his land and put it into eight bags.He made sure that each bag weighed exactly the same amount. The king then chosed the eught people in his country whome he trusted the most‚and gave a bad og gold to eahc of them to keep safe for him.On special occasions he asked them to bring the bags back so he could look at them.(He liked looking at his‚even though he didnt like spending it.) One day the king heard from a foreign
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CheckPoint: Other Uses for Microsoft® PowerPoint® IT/206 11/21/2014 Colleen Rush List and explain the five steps to creating a basic Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation. "Presentation software (also called presentation graphics software) is a computer program you use to organize and present information to others." (University of Phoenix‚ 2013). The first five steps in creating a PowerPoint presentation would be to first start the program by opening Microsoft PowerPoint. Second you ’re
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time - The knights can only move one at a time - They must stay within the 9 squares of their 3x3 chessboard Process To solve this POW I read over exactly what it was asking and what the rules to solving it were. The easiest method to solve it was by using "Draw-A-Picture." I started out with drawing a 3x3 square and marking the
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Problem Statement My task was to find 3 equations‚ that would give me an answer‚ if I had certain information. The first was to find one that if you knew that there were four pegs on the boundary‚ and none on the interior‚ you could get the area. The second was if you knew that there were 4 pegs on the boundary‚ and you knew how many were on the interior‚ you could get the area. And last‚ if you had the number on the interior‚ and the number on the boundary‚ you could get the area. Process
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The 30th annual MSU Pow-Wow of Love was held on March 16‚ 2013. Arriving at Jenison Fieldhouse around 7.35pm‚ I found myself breaking one of the rules. I entered the building from the east entrance - where the entrance was reserved just for the dancers. I then walked towards the dance arena‚ where the crowd gathered. The first thing that caught my eyes was the colorful and unique dance regalia or outfit worn by the dancers. Bright colors such as yellow‚ orange‚ red‚ and light blue wrapped around
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