“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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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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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:6 The Haybaler Problem Problem Statement: You bought 5 bales of hay but they weighed them in pairs not individually like they used to. The bales of hay could be matched up in any combination like‚ 1 and 2‚ 1 and 3‚ 1 and 4‚ and so on. The salesperson did not keep track of the weight of each bale of hay. Your job is to find out the weight of each bale of hay using combinations‚ 80‚ 82‚ 83‚ 84‚ 85‚ 86‚ 87‚ 88‚ 90‚ and 91. Remember there are 5 punkins and you can only make combinations of 2.
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Problem Statement: A football league scores points for field goals as five points and touchdowns as three points. They want to know what the highest amount of points that is impossible to score. Process: I thought that maybe there was patterns in certain combinations. Field goals = 5 pts. Then I listed the multiples of 5 to 25. 5‚10‚15‚20‚25 Touchdowns = 3 pts. I did the same as above. 3‚6‚9‚12‚15‚18‚21‚24‚27 I looked at the patterns and knew that if the team only scored field goals
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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 This weeks P.O.W. was named‚ "The Hay Baler Problem"‚ it was about a hay baler who had just finished weighing five bales of hay. Unfortunately‚ he weighed the bales was in combinations of two. He weighed bale 1 with 2‚ 1 with 3‚ 1 with 4‚ and every other two-baled combination. In the end‚ he came up with a set of 10 different weights. However‚ he did not remember which order he weighed the bales and was now supposed to determine the weight of each individual bale‚ not the bale
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Problem Statement: Some families didn’t want to travel overland to California so they took ships around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. Say a ship leaves San Francisco for New York the first of every month at noon. At the same time a ship leaves New York for san Francisco. Every ship arrives exactly 6 months after it leaves. If you were going to San Francisco from New York How many ships from San Francisco would you meet? I assumed that entering and exiting the harbor does not count
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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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