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Michael Briones
Expansion of
Awesomeness Theorem 1
(Matches Question Variation)
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question stated a simple idea. It takes four matches to make a square. Then
you add several more matches to make this one square into two squares.
Then you add more to make three squares. This went on and so forth. The
point was to make an equation to solve this never ending puzzle. With each
new square added on, how many matches would there be? Keep in mind,
these squares will all be in one long row and will always be connected by at
least one match.
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head automatically went to squaring the n but after a few trial and errors I
saw my mistake and found the answer.
The only problem was after reading the problem in the book, and
discovering there was an answer written inside for this one, I decided it was
going to be far too easy to present so I decided to be creative and come up
with something new and unique.
Expansion of Awesomeness Theorem 1 came into play because I
thought, no matter what, Matches number 1 was too easy, Matches number
2 had information (which I did not need) in the book to answer it, but
according to the syllabus, we are supposed to find a question in which an
epiphany hits us. I wanted something that was completely unique to me and
something that I had not thought about before.
Something about the matches question kind of got me thinking.
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proven true.
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m = number of matches
n = number of increases
I figured this out because I noticed that I could easily come up with an
equation for the crosspath (this was pretty much the same method as
Matches number 1 just multiplied by 4).
inadvertently found the first half of my equation and let me see a way to
explain that I am increasing all the sides by 1.
The second half I figured out by using information from Matches
number 2 and multiplying that by 4 for every increase. And when I added
the two numbers from both halves of my equations together, I realized I got
the final answer I needed.
world of boxes. And at the same time, I have invented a new word which I
now use to describe the interior part of my problems structure. That word is
crosspath.
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Sources:
John Mason, Leone Burton, and Kaye Stacey. Thinking Mathematically. Essex:
Prentice Hall, 1982. Print.