By Paul Zeitz
The newly revised moment Edtion of this specific textual content uniquely blends attention-grabbing issues of thoughts, instruments, and methods to improve mathematical ability and instinct helpful for challenge fixing. Readers are inspired to do math instead of simply research it. the writer attracts upon his adventure as a trainer for the foreign arithmetic Olympiad to provide scholars an better feel of arithmetic and the power to enquire and clear up problems.
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For example, if there are 1 0 = 2 · 5 people, just start by giving each person one card chosen from { I , 2, . . , 5 } and one card chosen from { 6 , 7 , . , 1 0 } . Then, at every turn, each person holds a card numbered i n the range 1-5 paired with one in the range 6- 1 0, so no one ever holds two cards with the same numbers. Now we turn our attention to the case where there is an odd number of people. Here is an example involving 5 people. IiI;I�I�I We arranged the table so that the top row cards are smaller than the bottom row, so we know that these are the cards to be passed on the next turn.
In fact, the first few multiples of three, in order, are hidden in the table. 1 2 3 3 6 1 11 9 2 3 7 15 5 12 5 18 8 13 13 17 21 19 24 21 27 34 23 55 29 30 And once we see that the patterns are diagonal, it is easy to spot another sequence, the primes ! 3 . 1 8). • So the next column of the table is 3 1 , 3 3 , 89. 7 Find the next member in this sequence. 2 1 , 1 1 , 2 1 , 1 2 1 1 , 1 1 1 22 1 , . . Solution : If you interpret the elements of the sequence as numerical quantities, there seems to be no obvious pattern.
For example, try stretching things a bit: what if the actual room rate had been $O? Then the porter would pocket $27 and the guests would spend $27, which adds up to $54 ! The actual "invariant" here is not $30, but $27, the amount that the guests spend, and this will always equal the amount that the porter took ($2) plus the amount that went to the desk ($25 ). • Each example had a common theme: Don 't let self-imposed, unnecessary restric tions limit your thinking. Whenever you encounter a problem, it is worth spending a minute (or more) asking the question, "Am I imposing rules that I don 't need to?