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Thursday, July 12, 2018

ATM #beingmathematical. Cows eat grass

This is my 'homework' in advance of the ATM #beingmathematical session on 12 July 2018.

Here is the question:


The instructions were to think about how we thought about the problem.  Below are my ideas, including things I did wrong!  My thinking is in red and the maths is in blue.




Was there a way to do this without so much algebra?
Posted by Mr Dawes at 12:08 PM 1 comment:
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