Today's Math Problem will be simple math riddles. These riddles deal more with logic than mathematical computation
CHALLENGE QUESTION Two Riddles in one!To solve this riddle you don't want to manually do all of the math but rather try to figure out a pattern. A. What digit is the most frequent between the numbers 1 and 1,000? B. What digit is the least frequent between the numbers 1 and 1,000? Answers Riddles #1-4 come from from OnlineMathLearning.com
Math Riddles. (2008). Retrieved February 7, 2011, from Online Math Learning: http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/math-riddles.html The Challenge Question come from the Math Warehouse Math Riddles. (n.d.). Retrieved Feburary 7, 2011, from Math Warehouse: http://www.mathwarehouse.com/riddles/math-riddles.php
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Tribbles are cute, furry creatures that exist in the world of Star Trek. Tribbles can produce a litter of 10 babies every 12 hours. One tribble was trapped in the grain hold of Space Station K-7 for 3 days. How many tribbles were in the grain hold at the end of the third day (assuming none of them died)?
Bonus Question: Use a graphing calculator (or Microsoft Excel), to prepare a scatter plot for the data ( # of tribbles vs. # hours) Find the exponential regression equation for this data. answer |
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