Wyllow Hildner

2/27/17

POW #11 WRITE-UP

I started out with this problem by setting up a mile-marker line on the table with
dry erase.

I was pretty stuck with the markers 500, 1,000, and so on. I found how to get 1,000
mangoes to end by picking up 2,000 mangoes each time and bringing it 500 miles each.
For more info, see the attached work. But, this method did not work!
Mia and I were stumped, so we attended office hours on Wednesday, February 22nd.
We got help from Lauren who said, Make sure you are carrying the largest amount
possible and going the farthest amount possible. Also, make sure you are storing either
4,000 or 2,000 mangoes. We took this advice and worked with the calculator instead of
the line.
As I used the calculator, I would guess and check different numbers. Finally, I came
across going 666.66 miles to be able to store 2,000 mangoes at 1,066.66 mile marker.
Calculator process:
666.662=1333.33
666.66+1333.33=2000
40002000=2000
And finally,
20001066.66=933.33
2000933.33=1066.66
SOLUTION: 1,066.66 mangoes transported to the market!
Wyllow Hildner
2/27/17

Explained:
Start with 6,000 at 0 mile marker. Bring 2,000 to 400 and back, drop 1,200 at mile 400.
Bring another 2,000 to 400 and back, drop 1,200 at miles 400. Bring another 2,000 to
400, but dont go back. Add 1,600 mangoes to your pile at mile 400. Total at 400 is now
4,000 mangoes.
Now, bring 2,000 mangoes from mile 400 to mile 1,066 and go back, drop 933 mangoes
at mile 1,066. Now, bring the last 2,000 to mile 1,066, but dont go back. Add 1,333.33
mangoes to the original 933.33. Total at mile 1,066.66 is now 2,000 mangoes.
Finally, pick up all 2,000 mangoes and go 933.33 miles to mile 2,000. You will end with
1,066.66 mangoes at the market.

I do not think this is the maximum number of mangoes that could be transported to the
market because Jem originally got the answer as 1,066 mangoes, but Lauren or any
other students that got the answer, did not act like that was the final answer. That is my
only reasoning for this.

Extension: Create you own problem!

Sally, the dog, makes her own dog biscuits at her home. She has been asked to sell her
biscuits at the a dog show 3,000 miles away. Sally has a total of 1,200 dog biscuits at
her home and her paws are so tired, she cant make any more. She can only carry 300
biscuits in the back of her truck. To add to this, Sally gets very hungry and each miles
she goes she eats a biscuit. Sally needs to know how many biscuits she will be able
to get to the dog show? Can you help her?

Reaction:
This problem was very frustrating, but it was also very intriguing. I really wanted to get
the final answer! I even stayed for office hours, which I never do! This was a very fun,
although challenging POW. I hope to have more like this, but maybe a tad easier. It took
me 17 days to get kinda close to the final answer. And that was only because of
Laurens help.