Selling a house
Selling a house We close the semester with a question from the 1869-70 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrace Examination. By selling a house and lot for $5,790, the owner lost 3 1/2 per cent. What was their cost?
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Mathematics and playing games
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What do conflict and cooperation have to do with math?
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Birthday
Birthday Fifty traditional age college students are gathered in a room. What is the probability that there is at least one pair of students who share the same birth date (year, month, and day)?
Tennis
Tennis Alice, Bob, and Charlie play tennis matches consisting of one set only: two of them play a set and the winner stays on the court for the next set, with the loser replaced by the player who was idle. At the end of the day Alice played 15 sets, Bob played 14 sets, and Charlie played 9 sets. Who played in the 13th set?
Shall We Dance? The Processing Two- Step
Presented by Rebecca Buchan This workshop was designed to educate participants on their personality preferences and characteristics as framed within the structure of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Objectives included: Incorporating MBTI into various areas of interpreting & Gaining an understanding and new appreciation for their personality type and the…
The ABC's of Personality: Integrating Myers Briggs and Interpreting
Presented by Rebecca Buchan This workshop was designed to educate participants on their personality preferences and characteristics as framed within the structure of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Objectives included: Incorporating MBTI into various areas of interpreting & Gaining an understanding and new appreciation for their personality type and the…
Fractal Music
Lydia Short, Patricia Oakley, and Sarah Rody explored musical representations of fractals.
2010 Math Graduates
Seven mathematics majors graduated on April 22, 2010.
Fall 2009
Birthday December 1 Problem. My creativity has run dry. So, here is a problem sent to me by Ginny Nunemaker (originally from her son Ken). Computers usually represent color using a hexadecimal value for each primary color (red, green and blue). The range for each color is "00" to "FF" ;. In this system, how many color combinations are there?