Case Study Broken Eggs Powmby
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Broken Eggs POWBy: Faith LeonardThe problem is that a farmer is taking her eggs to the market in her cart. Along the way, she hits a pothole, which jars her cart and spills the eggs. The farmer is unhurt but every egg is broken. She goes to her insurance agent, who asks her how many eggs she had. She doesn’t know, but what she does remember some things from various ways she tried packing the eggs. She knows that when she put the eggs into groups of 2, groups of three, groups of 4, groups of 5, and groups of 6 she always had 1 egg left over. But when she tried putting them into groups on seven she ended up with no egg left over. What we did was find
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Broken Eggs POWBy: Faith LeonardThe problem is that a farmer is taking her eggs to the market in her cart. Along the way, she hits a pothole, which jars her cart and spills the eggs. The farmer is unhurt but every egg is broken. She goes to her insurance agent, who asks her how many eggs she had. She doesn’t know, but what she does remember some things from various ways she tried packing the eggs. She knows that when she put the eggs into groups of 2, groups of three, groups of 4, groups of 5, and groups of 6 she always had 1 egg left over. But when she tried putting them into groups on seven she ended up with no egg left over. What we did was find