Recreational Math Problems
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These problems are solvable by high school students. | These problems are solvable by high school students. | ||
| + | * Create a Venn diagram of 5-card poker hands. Fill in the number of different hands (or likelihoods) in each category. | ||
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* "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: people who don't know binary, people who do, and people who know ternary." Why does this make sense? Can it be extended further? | * "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: people who don't know binary, people who do, and people who know ternary." Why does this make sense? Can it be extended further? | ||
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* Does an icosahedron have the same volume as 20 tetrahedrons with the same edge length? | * Does an icosahedron have the same volume as 20 tetrahedrons with the same edge length? | ||
