2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
1. Motivation
verfasst von : Edwin F. Meyer III, Nickolas Falkner, Raja Sooriamurthi, Zbigniew Michalewicz
Erschienen in: Guide to Teaching Puzzle-based Learning
Verlag: Springer London
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Abstract
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Given two eggs, for a 100-story building, what would be an optimal way to determine the highest floor, above which an egg would break if dropped?
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Suppose you buy a shirt at a discount. Which is more beneficial to us: apply the discount first and then apply sales tax to the discounted amount or apply the sales tax first and then discount the taxed amount? What do stores do?
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If you have a biased coin (say, comes up heads 70 % of the time and tails 30 %), is there a way to work out a fair, 50/50 toss?
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A $10 gold coin is half the weight of a $20 gold coin. Which is worth more: a kilogram of $10 gold coins or half a kilogram of $20 gold coins?
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A farmer sells 100 kg of mushrooms for $1 per kg. The mushrooms contain 99 % moisture. A buyer makes an offer to buy these mushrooms a week later for the same price. However, a week later, the mushrooms would have dried out to 98 % of moisture content. How much will the farmer lose if he accepts the offer?
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If you heat a metal washer with a hole in the middle, what happens to the size of the hole?