Taylor Gray 1/31/11 POW 6: linear nim For this game of Linear Nim you draw 10 line marks on a piece of paper and two players take turns crossing off only 1‚ 2‚ or 3 marks per turn. The person who crosses off the last mark is the winner. Firstly what I did was play a few games with my Mom and what I realized right away was that if you stopped just before the last four dashes in the game then you would always win. Since you aren’t always guaranteed of being the one who can put these dashes
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Reaves I pledge… 9/5/14 Pow #1 A Sticky Gum Problem This POW didn’t have a specific problem but it does have a few specific problems with gumballs. 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 color. They don’t care what color the gumballs are‚ as long as they’re both the same. Ms. Hernandez can see that there are only white and red gumballs in the machine. The
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one egg left over. The same thing happened when she put them in groups of 4‚ groups of 5‚ groups of 6‚ but when she put them in groups of 7‚ she ended up with no eggs left over. How many eggs did she have? Is there more than one answer? Process - First‚ I knew that the number of eggs she had would be multiples of 7 because when she put the eggs in groups of 7‚ there would be no eggs left over. So what I did was I wrote out as many multiples
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I decided that I 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
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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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that are not held as vault cash‚ lends money to banks and thrifts‚ provides for check collection‚ acts as fiscal agent for the Federal government‚ supervises the operation of all US banks‚ and has responsibility for regulating the supply of money. #7 How do each of the following relate to the financial crisis of 2007-2008? (a)Declines in real estate values: Home prices rapidly increased because of subprime mortgage loans issued to risky borrowers. (b)Subprime Mortgage Loans: Banks issued loans to
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1. Problem Statement Keisha is making a quilt that will be made up of rectangular patches of rectangular material. When she finds a box of satin material that is 17 by 22 inches long she wonders how many 3 by 5 inch patches she could include into the quilt. However‚ after we found out that 22 at minimum‚ rectangular patches can fit into the quilt and 24 at maximum‚ she decides to see how many 9 by 10‚ 10 by 12 and 8 by 9 inch boxes she can fit into the 17 by 22 inch quilt. Lastly‚ she had to
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A Digital Proof Write-up The problem in A Digital Proof has two parts. The first is to fill in five boxes with numbers that fit the criteria: each box has a number‚ and the digit that is placed in each box must be the amount of times that number appears in the whole five digit number formed by the boxes. The second part of the problem is to prove that there is only one solution. How I went about solving this problem was somewhat simple; at least‚ it was at first. I started from the ‘four’ box
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POW 11: Let’s Make A Deal 1. Problem Statement: For this Problem of the Week we were required to find out if our chances of winning Let’s Make A Deal were higher if we switched to the other door or stayed with our original door after a worthless prize was revealed behind one of the doors we did not chose. The game show host knew what was behind each door‚ so every time he would reveal something worthless behind one of the doors you did not choose after you made your first choice. Then he would
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gov. NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis. Web. 26 June 2014. 2. Leopold‚ Todd. "Film Legend Herzog Takes on Texting and Driving." CNN.com. N.p.‚ 16 Aug. 2013. Web. 26 June 2014. 3. Part Three 4. Submit the introductory paragraph of 7 to 10 sentences. Be sure to include your claim and briefly
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