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This document provides instructions for solving a set of recreational mathematics problems. It includes 7 mathematics puzzles and puzzles involving handshakes, arranging sticks, a leech climbing a well, taking numbers from other numbers, making 1000 with eights, and a Sudoku puzzle. Students are to show their work and solutions on letter paper following specific formatting guidelines and submit their solved problem set in PDF format by May 1st.

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Recreational Problems Using Mathematics PDF

This document provides instructions for solving a set of recreational mathematics problems. It includes 7 mathematics puzzles and puzzles involving handshakes, arranging sticks, a leech climbing a well, taking numbers from other numbers, making 1000 with eights, and a Sudoku puzzle. Students are to show their work and solutions on letter paper following specific formatting guidelines and submit their solved problem set in PDF format by May 1st.

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Notes in GE 8 – Mathematics in the Modern World

Unit I
THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICS

Chapter 3
PROBLEM SOLVING AND REASONING

RECREATIONAL PROBLEMS USING MATHEMATICS

Recreational Mathematics
§ It is mathematics done for recreation or as a hobby and intended to be fun.
§ Typically, it involves games or puzzles that relate to mathematics, although it can
cover other material.
§ It involves general logical and lateral thinking skills, as opposed to advanced
mathematical concepts, so that the average person is at least able to understand and
appreciate a recreational problem and its solution.
§ It can also increase people’s appreciation of mathematics as a whole.

PROBLEM SET
Solve the following problems comprehensively. Show all your solutions, if
necessary.
1. (Exercise 5, # 1, p. 79) There are fifteen people in a room, and each person shakes
hand exactly once with everyone else. How many handshakes take place?
2. (Exercise 5, # 2, p. 79) Ten marbles form a triangle. What is the least number of
marbles you need to change position in order to turn the triangle upside down?
3. (Exercise 5, # 5, p. 80) Arrange eleven sticks such that the eleven sticks will
become nine without removing a stick from the given set.
4. (Exercise 5, # 7, p. 80) A leech was at the bottom of a well 30 feet deep. It climbs 3
feet each day and slides back 2 feet each day. How many days will it take to
reach the top?
5. (Exercise 5, # 8, p. 80) How come that you can take 9 from 6, 10 from 9, 50 from 40
and leave 6?
6. (Exercise 5, # 9, p. 80) Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?
7. BONUS PROBLEM (OPTIONAL) (Exercise 5, # 4, p. 79) Sudoku is easy to play
and the rules are simple. Fill in the blanks so that each row, each column, and
each of the nine 3x3 grids should contain each of the numbers 1 through 9 once.
4 5 7
1 2 8
7 9
3 6 4 2
2
8 3 6
9 8 5
1 5 8
3 6 1

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Notes in GE 8 – Mathematics in the Modern World
MECHANICS FOR THE PROBLEM SET
- Solutions can be handwritten or encoded, whichever is convenient for you.
- Paper and Size: Letter/Short bond paper, 8.5” x 11”
- Margins: 1” on all sides
If solutions are handwritten, it is strongly advised to draw the margins in red ink
on all sides overlapping.
If solutions are encoded, the margins can be invisible.
- Format for the First Two Lines on the First Page
First Line, Left Side: SURNAME, Given Name MI
Second Line, Left Side: Course, Year and Section
First Line, Right Side: GE 8; Class Time; Class Days
Second Line, Right Side: Date Submitted
If solutions are handwritten, these should be written above the top margin.
If solutions are encoded, these should be written below the top margin.
- Placement of Solutions
Solution for Problem 1 – page 1, upper half
Solution for Problem 2 – page 1, lower half
Solution for Problem 3 – page 2, upper half
Solution for Problem 4 – page 2, lower half
Solution for Problem 5 – page 3, upper half
Solution for Problem 6 – page 3, lower half
Solution for BONUS Problem – page 4
- Solved problem sets are to be submitted in PDF format through Google
Classroom by May 01, 2020, Friday, 11:59 pm.

Main Reference:
MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD Worktext
by Mary Joy Rodriguez, Justin Ian Ogoy et al.
Recreational Problems Using Mathematics, pages 77 – 80

Prepared by:
MICHAEL ANGELO F. EMPIZO
Saint Louis College, City of San Fernando, La Union
Memorial of Saint Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr
April 28, 2020

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