tessellations. On the quilts we curl up under on movie night. Often times‚ tessellations are just such a natural part of our lives that we don’t even notice the tessellations. A brick wall is a tessellation. Corn on the cob tessellates. Just look around- tessellations are everywhere! But to tessellate‚ shapes have to have certain properties. The shapes in a mathematical‚ geometric tessellation need to be congruent. The tessellated shape cannot overlap or leave gaps‚ and the shape should be a
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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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Zack Kirkpatrick IMP 2 POW 2; Tying the Knots Problem Statement: A couple wants gto get married but to do so a ritual must be completed. This ritual includes 6 strings. The ends of each of these strings must be tied to one another on both ends. If the strings make one large loop they can get married‚ anything else however will result in them having to wait. The problem is whether or not hey will get married. The best way to find this answer is to find combinations of diffierent loops. Then
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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: 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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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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by wyjete In a far far away land there lived a queen‚ for some unknown reason she only let people get married if they took 6 strings held them in one hand and tied the ends together if they got one big circle then it worked and they live happily ever after if not then they must weight 6 long months and try again. Process I started out in disbelief on how big the problem was and how long it would it would take me but then i realized that the top strings don’t even matter because no
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2. Problem from SAKUNTALA DEVI ’PUZZLES TO PUZZLE U’. Problem no: 23( Walking back to happiness.) The walking time : 55 mins. 1. There are twelve consecutive flags at an equal interval of distance. A man passes the 8th flag in 8 seconds. How many more seconds will he take to pass the remaining 4 flags ? 2. A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant speed and then two of
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Geometry Puzzles Problem 1 (But first‚ one last logic puzzle). Suppose that you are a prisoner‚ and you are confronted with two doors: one leading to freedom‚ and one leading to the executioner’s chamber‚ but you don’t know which is which. A sentry guards each door. You know that one sentry always lies‚ and one sentry always tells the truth. Again‚ you don’t know which is which. You are allowed to ask one of the sentries one question. What is a question you ask a sentry that will tell you with
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Puzzle 1: Only for the brave‚ this one! This square has eleven letters missing‚ which you have to replace: Every row‚ column AND the main diagonals contain all the letters in the word "BRAVE". That reminds me‚ I must see the Postman about all those missing letters. Our Solution: Puzzle 2: Given only one of each letter in the alphabet‚ what are the smallest and largest numbers that you could write down? Our Solution: Using only one of each letter in the alphabet‚ you can
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