11/15/09 Class G Lauren McCarthy Pow 3: Eight Bags of Gold Problem Statement A king divides his gold among 8 trusted people. One of the trusted people is selling his gold. The king wants to find the thief but only has a pan balance. Being conservative‚ he wants to use the pan balance as few times as possible. What is the least number of trials he will have to do in order to guarantee that he has found the lightest bag? Process To solve the problem‚ I accumulated the least number of trials into
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Marnely Melendez April 4‚ 2011 Introduction to Integrated Math Mrs. Eldridge POW #6 POW #6 A Sticky Gum Problem This POW didn’t have a specific problem but it does have a few problems with gumballs. Well there were 3 questions but I had added 3 questions of my own. But first I started with answering the questions. Question 1: Mrs. Hernandez comes across a gumball machine one day when she was out with her twins. Of course‚ the twins each wanted a gumball. They also insist on having the same
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A Pow Wow is a gathering of North America’s Native people. The word Pow Wow comes from the Narragansett word powwaw‚ which means "spiritual leader". A modern pow-wow is a specific type of event where both Native American and non-Native American people meet to dance‚ sing‚ socialize‚ and honor American Indian culture. There is generally a dancing competition‚ often with significant prize money awarded. Pow-wows vary in length from one day session of five to six hours to three days. Major pow-wow or
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Having wasted enormous resources on recapturing Allied prisoners of war (POWs)‚ the Germans move the most determined to a new‚ high-security prisoner of war camp. The commandant‚ Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger‚ tells the senior British officer‚ Group Capt Ramsey‚ "There will be no escapes from this camp." Ramsey replies that it is their duty to try to escape. After several failed escape attempts on the first day‚ the POWs settle into the prison camp. Gestapo and SS agents bring Squadron Leader Roger
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in Cumberland House‚ Saskatchewan and Terrace‚ British Columbia‚ this wasn’t my first Pow Wow. I will say I don’t remember going to any in Cumberland House as I was only two when we lived there‚ but I there are quite a few funny pictures of me‚ a chubby blond haired blue eyed baby in my pink jacket sitting among all the brown skinned‚ brown eyed‚ and black haired Native babies. I do however remember going to Pow Wows in Terrace. These two places are very different from each other‚ the Costal peoples
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Statement There are five bales of hay. When the bales of hay are weighed‚ they are weighed in pairs of two. When weighed‚ they were weighed in all possible pairs of two‚ like so: bales 1 &2‚ bales 1 &3‚ bales 1 & When weighed‚ they were weighed in all possible pairs of two‚ like so: bales 1&2‚ bales 1&3‚ bales 1&4‚ bales 1&5‚ bales 2&3‚ bales 2&4‚ bales 2&5‚ bales 3&4‚ bales 3&5‚ and bales 4&5. There are also 10 different weights and they are: 80‚ 82‚ 83‚ 84‚ 85‚ 86‚ 87‚ 88‚ 90‚ and 91. My task is to
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Jordan Hunt P.3 POW Write Up; Just Count the Pegs Problem Statement: For the POW: Just Count the Pegs‚ I had to try and find the best formula possible for finding the area of any polygon on a geoboard. There are 3 different formulas you have to find. The first two are formulas that will combine together and help you find the best or “superformula”. In order to find the first two‚ you will make in and out tables. You will find the pattern and then come up with a formula for it. For the first
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sun problem and the lamp problem we got a visual‚ hands on interpretation‚ After measuring shadows and finding out what variables were needed to solve the unit problem the next thing we learned was how to create formulas using an In-Out table. In POW 17 making an In-Out table and identifying patterns was key to finding the formula needed and it is the same situation for solving our unit problem. Although formulas do not relate to shadows‚ they relate to what our unit goal is‚ which is finding a
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strings then arranged them in different ways like this 1+4 2+3 5+6=no-2 1+4 2+6 5+3=1 1+4 2+5 6+3=1 1+5 2+3 4+6=1 1+5 2+4 3+6=1 1+5 2+6 3+4=no-2 1+6 2+3 4+5=1 1+6 2+5 4+3=no-2 1+6 2+4 5+3=1 1+2 3+4 5+6=no-3 1+2 3+5 4+6=no-2 1+2 3+6 4+5=no-2 1+3 2+4 5+6=no-2 1+3 2+5 4+6=1 1+3 2+6 5+4=1 side note i didn’t test all of these there was no need ........... check my notes!!! Total Outcomes: 15 you want to get 1 then your chances are good 8/15 chance of happening if
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whether or not the drinking age should be 18 or 21. As you turn 18 you are considered a legal adult who gets to choose what they want to do except for deciding whether to drink or not. Lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 would decrease the number of minors people would get because 18 is an age closer to the age we are than 21 is causing children to wait to drink. I believe that whatever age you are you’re going to make bad choices whether or not if you’re 18‚ 21‚ or even 40. If lowering the drinking
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