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Seating Arrangements
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. How many different ways can three people sit at a 10-seat counter so that there are empty seats between them?
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A Series of Numbers
- Ethel Breuche
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Find the sum of the first n positive odd integers, find a formula, and prove it.
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Sokoban
- Stephen Maurer
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Solve this game in the fewest number of moves and prove your solution.
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Sum of a Sequence
- Ethel Breuche
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Determine the sum of a sequence of numbers in terms of n: 1, (1+2), (1+2+22),(1+2+2^2+2^3)... (1+2+2^2+2^3...2^(n-1) ).
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The Take Away Game
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Find the strategy to guarantee that you will always win in this game.
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The Termite and the Cube
- Jared Hammond
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 1. Can a termite, traveling only vertically or horizontally through a 3x3x3 Rubik-like cube, go through every cube exactly once and wind up in the very center?
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Timeline Trivia
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 5. What is the probability of getting all ten historical events in the wrong order?
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The Tiny Town of Smallsville
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. An exercise in recursion: Based on birth and death data, how long will it take the town of Smallsville to double its population?
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Train Travel
- Dona Coffey
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Dona is in charge of setting up a new train service to connect nine towns in a county. What's the minimum cost?
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Ursala is Undecided
- Melissa Kennedy, Ethel Breuche
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 1. Poor Undecided Ursala has many paths to choose to get from point A to point S. Exactly how many paths does she have a choice of taking?
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Vertices, Edges, and Regions
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Find a relation among vertices, edges, and regions of planar graphs.
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Voting on Survivor
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Using a modified Borda count method, figure out how many people voted for each preference schedule to produce a tie.
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A Voting Problem
- Leslie Johnson Nielsen
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Election theory: investigate the concept of plurality in voting and discuss its fairness.
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Wacky’s Fun and Games Amusement Park
- Natasha Hosein
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 4. How can we minimize the number of clowns around the amusement park so that a child will never see two clowns at the same site?
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Welcome Back
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Find the probability of spelling "Welcome Back" when cards with each letter are flipped over.
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The West Nile Virus Carrying Mosquito Problem
- Lorraine Lurie
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Getting the trucks to spray for the virus in all five boroughs involves knowledge of some elementary graph theory and Euler's
theorems regarding traversible graphs.
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Which is the Dominant Team?
- Jennifer Stetz, Nicole Zayatz
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Determine which soccer team dominates the division.
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Who Broke Mom's Favorite Vase?
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 1. Using logic, determine who is lying and who is telling the truth about who broke Mom's favorite vase.
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Will It Be Pumpkin Pie?
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 4. Based on voting coalitions and power indices, who has more power in deciding what will be served for dessert?
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Yearbook Deadlines
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Find the critical path to determine the earliest time that the school yearbook can be completed.
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Your Phone Number, Please
- Ethel Breuche
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 1. What is the least number of area codes necessary to guarantee that the thirty million phones needed in a state have distinct ten-digit telephone numbers?
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