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HunterUnderSaddleGirl · Jan 11, 2022 6:45 AM

I have an extra credit assignment in my differential equations class. I'm excited about this class but it looks very very hard.

We have this problem to solve

https://naumathstat.github.io/problem-of-the-week/

(please read carefully everyone I've shown it to has misintrepeted the first 2-4x they read it)

We can use ANY means at our disposal. Friends internet etc. So far doc google hasn't been very helpful to me.... Does anyone have any ideas for solutions? It seems like a modification of a famous math problem or something, but I'm not well versed enough in famous problems.

Lallyhop · Jan 11, 2022 3:04 PM

I'm very much not good at math myself, but a friend of mine suggests solving for a few small numbers first: i.e. finding what the answer would be if n was always 3, then what it would be if it was 4, and do a few of those, then see if you can find a pattern emerging.

HunterUnderSaddleGirl · Jan 11, 2022 5:15 PM

Yeah, one of my classmates/BF/tutor and I ran through 20 or so mock games and we made some progress but nothing that seems all the way perfect

Lallyhop · Jan 12, 2022 2:43 AM

Further suggestions from friend:

“So you need to pinch out either the odds or the evens first because you can't deal with odds and evens at the same time, obviously you want to eliminate what there is less of first. Then you pinch down the rest of them, and if you solve for n=3 and n=4 you already start to see the pattern.”

HunterUnderSaddleGirl · Jan 12, 2022 6:07 AM

That makes sense

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