Name: Deinzel Dave Hussain Score

GED102 - MMW
Program & Year: MFGE-1 Section: A7 Exercise 1.1
Student No.: 2018101263 Date: 6/10/2020 4th Quarter 2019-2020

1. To address the problem of traffic in a big city, several straight roads are being constructed. It was
noted that two roads will have at most one junction, three roads will have at most three junctions,
and so on.
a. Complete the table below. Identify the pattern on the maximum number of junctions for each
given number of straight roads.

No. of Roads 2 3 4 5 6
Max. No. of Intersections 1 3 6 10 15

b. At most how many junctions are expected to be constructed if there will be seven roads in the
city?
21

2. Why are numbers important in our life? Answer in at least three (3) sentences.
Numbers from our childhood since now is very essential for our everyday. From the
very early years of our lives, we learn the importance of numbers. Useful manipulation of
numbers opens the door to a detailed understanding of nature, smooth political action and
a well-functioning distribution network to maintain a high standard of living. Most the
situations we 're doing are numbers and mathematics. For certain if we like or not, our life
has been in numbers since the day we have all been born. Various figures are explicitly or
implicitly related to our existence, such as measuring the everyday expenditure for food,
travel, and other activities, informing you the hours you spend at work or school,
estimating the value you received in the company, and using elevators to transfer to
locations or floors in the house.

3. Enumerate five (5) situations where you have to use numbers.

1. Discounted price at shopping mall
2. Solving math problems.
3. Spending money for food.
4. Cooking, baking or anything that must be measured.
5. Driving a car.
4. Describe three patterns of shapes that you see in nature. Discuss briefly the “mathematics”
behind such patterns.
1. Spirals can be generated mathematically from Fibonacci ratios: the Fibonacci sequence
runs 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13… (each subsequent number being the sum of the two preceding ones). For
example, when leaves alternate up a stem, one rotation of the spiral touches two leaves, so the
pattern or ratio is 1/2. In hazel the ratio is 1/3; in apricot it is 2/5; in pear it is 3/8; in almond it is
5/13.
2. Cracks are overlooked because they are so common. It is often a pattern engineers want
to avoid, for example a crack in a bridge or a road or a glass. Engineers spend a lot of time trying to
determine when a crack can become a catastrophe. This in-depth article discusses the history for
fracture mechanics from frozen dirt to fractured rocks.
3. Waves are yet another common pattern found in nature. Think about it, waves can be
seen crashing on a beach, at the snap of a rope or sound traveling through a speaker. With
a mathematical as a pattern that maintains its shape as it propagates with a constant wave speed.

5. Identify and describe at least one pattern that you observe in your locality or within your nearby
environment.
A pattern I obsereved nearby my environemt are bubbles, it forms a sphere and a surface
with slight area, the smalles possible surface area for the volume enclosed. Bubble patterns occur
widely in nature, for example in radiolarians, sponge spicules, and the skeletons of silicoflagellates
and sea urchins.