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Hay Bayer Essay

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Hay Bayler Problem Statement: you have five bales of hay that were weighed in all possible combinations of two, 1 and 2, 1 and 3, 1 and 4, and so on. The weight combination was written down without keeping track of which weight matched which pair of bales. The weights are 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, and 91. You need to find out which two bales go with which weight and how much bales 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 weigh. Are there more than 1 possibility. Process: my group first did guess and check to try and solve the problem. First we thought that the bales had to be 40-50 because if you had 70+70 it would be out of the range of 80-90 by a lot. Our first guess was that bale 1=42, 2=43, 3=44, 4=40, and bale 5=45. That didn’t work so then we tried doing bale 1=42, 2=43, 3=41, 4=47, and bale 5=44. That also didn’t work so then we thought. I thought that maybe we had to give bales 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, and 4 and 5 one of the weights and see if it works. We gave 1 and 2 85, 2 and 3 84, 3 and 4 88, and 4 and 5 91. It worked but when we tried to add 1 and 3, 2 and 5, and 1 and 4 it just fell apart. So that theory did not work. The whole class was having trouble so we did it all together. Our teacher gave us each a number 36-48. I got the number 39. So I started with 39+41=40, then 39+43=82. Then I did 41+43=84 I kept doing it till I found the answer. Bale1=39, Bale2=41, Bale3=43, Bale4=44, …show more content…

Self-Assesment: Problem Statement Process Solution S/A LA 2/2 3/3 3/3 3/3 1/1 I earned 12/12. This is 100% of the possible points. There wasn’t really new math or strategy learned. I basically just guessed and checked. There was more than one step there were ten steps. That is why it took honors a long time to solve. My math teacher needed two hours to solve it because there were ten steps you needed to solve and if you messed a problem up then you have to

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