Problem Statement There are twelve items numbered 1 through 12. All of the values or "weights" are the same except one item whose value is either greater than or less that the other 11 by an unknown amount. One can compare the sum of the values of a number of items in a set with the sum of the values of items in a disjoint set to see which one is greater. This comparison is also called "weighing." Find the least number of ways to determine which
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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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9/12/10 IMP POW Linear Nim In this POW‚ we had to play a game called Linear Nim. In this game‚ we drew 10 lines on a paper‚ and we had to take turns crossing out 1‚ 2‚ or 3 of the marks. The person that crossed out the last mark was the winner. The first task of this POW was to find a winning strategy for this game. After we found this out‚ we were supposed to make variations to the game‚ for instance starting with more or less marks‚ or allowing a player to cross out more or less marks. We were
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POW 14 Christopher Manahan Period 05 February 28‚ 2006 Problem Statement: A very wealthy king has 8 bags of gold- all the gold in the kingdom‚ which he trusts to 8 of his most trustworthy caretakers; one bag to each caretaker. All the bags have equal weight and contain the same amount of gold‚ totaling all the gold in the kingdom. But one day‚ the king hears a story that a woman from another kingdom received a gold coin. The king knew it had to be his gold‚ because he owned
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“A Sticky Gum Problem” POW 4 Problem statement: The next scenario is very similar. In this one‚ Ms. Hernandez passed a different gumball machine the next day with three different colors Once again her twins each want a gumball of the same color‚ and each gumball is still one cent. What is the most amount of money that Ms. Hernandez would have to spend in order to get each of her daughters the same color gumball? In the last scenario‚ Mr. Hodges and his triplets pass the same gumball machine
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was going to keep looking for patterns in the numbers for different combanations ex. one field goal the rest touchdowns. To keep track of the patterns i was going to make a chart 1-100 of all the patterns and numbers. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94
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IMP POW 1: The Broken Eggs Problem Statement: A farmer’s cart hits a pothole‚ causing all her eggs to fall out and break. Luckily‚ she is unhurt. To cover the cost of the eggs‚ her insurance agent needs to know how many she had. She can’t remember the number‚ but can remember some problems she had when packing the eggs. When she put the eggs in groups of two to six eggs‚ there was always one left over. However‚ in groups of seven‚ there were none left over. From what she knows‚ how can she figure
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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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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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1000 miles away. Sounds easy right? Wait there’s a catch. For every mile she walks she has to eat one banana. See now it got hard. So with all of this said how many bananas will he be able to take to the market and sell? Process Doing the mini POW helped a lot with this one. Because knowing that Corey Camel can drop bananas on the way to the market is an important part‚ because of he couldn’t the answer would be an obvious zero. Since you can drop them I decided to drop 800 bananas at the 100
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