Math in Our World
Math in Our World
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ISBN: 9780073519678
Author: David Sobecki Professor, Allan G. Bluman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15.1, Problem 84E

Exercises 81–84 are based on the classic game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. (If you’re not familiar with the game, ask someone for the rules, or look it up on Wikipedia.) Use the rules of the game to build a mathematical system. The elements are rock, paper, and scissors, and the result of the operation is which of the two elements wins the game.

84.    Which, if any, of the remaining properties we studied in this section are satisfied by this system?

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