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Which One Is Older? (Math Chat)

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Author:Frank Morgan, MAA Online
Description: Creative solutions to the challenge: how can two people determine which is older without revealing their ages? Math videos available from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute via the MAA. "Mathematics in Arcadia," "Fermat's Last Theorem," as seen on TV as "The Proof" on NOVA. New Challenge: a small creature needs to find its way from a random point on an mile-wide strip of land to the sea on either side, by going distance r in a random direction and then (if it has not yet found the water), turning once t degrees to the right and continuing thereafter in a straight line. What choices of r and t minimize the expected journey length to the sea?
Levels: High School (9-12), College
Languages: English
Resource Types: Video, Articles
Math Topics: Problem-Solving

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