Subject: Re: Quiz #2
From: John M. Flanigan (johnf@hawaii.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 14:27:43 EST
Answer easy. Explanation of how to get to the answer more difficult.
Ten trees in five rows suggests that each tree might be in two rows.
(Other conceptualizations are possible, but that one seems easiest to
begin with.) "Five" rows suggests pentagonal arrangement, but that doesn't
make it. So try the next logical pattern. It works.
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, ALI IKIZ wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> i was thrilled with your answers to my first Quiz
> question from Einstein.Here is the second,but this is
> an easy one.New Quiz questions are on the way...
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> we need to plant 10 trees in 5 rows, so that every row
> has to have exactly 4 trees.But how?
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