Math 105 Extra Credit 1 2
Extra Credit Assignment 1
PENNY TRICK
Why does the penny trick shown in class work?
Carefully write up your detailed explanation of why the trick works.
Up to 5 homework points extra credit.
Extra Credit is not accepted late; no exceptions.
Here is a review of what we did in class:
Penny Trick (Courtesy Dr. Edward Burger, Williams College)
- Start with some pennies
- Give a volunteer all of the pennies and ask the volunteer to secretly put 1 to 3 pennies in their pocket.
- Have the volunteer compute the sum of the digits of the number of pennies they have left (e.g. for 15, 1 + 5 = 6) and remove this many pennies from their hand and put them in their pocket with the others.
- Ask the volunteer to put some pennies on the table.
- How can I always tell how many pennies remain in the volunteer's hand?
Extra Credit Assignment 2
Chapter 1.4 Mindscape 18 (p. 32 of the book)
Due Monday 10/29 at the beginning of class