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assignment #011

011. How many triangles?

Liberal Arts Mathematics I

06-24-2008

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11:02:24

`q001. . There are five questions in this set.

Draw four points in a square pattern (i.e., if the points were properly connected, they should form a square). From each of the points, draw a straight line to each of the other points. How many lines did you draw?

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Drew 7 lines, starting from the bottom left corner then making 1 line diagonal to upper right corner, then across to upper left corner, then diagonal to lower right corner, back to lower left, then up to upper left. Then back across to upper right, then down to lower left. traced over line from upper left to upper right 2 times in sequence. 7 moves total.

confidence assessment: 0

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11:03:54

Each corner of the square will connected to each of the other three corners, so from each corner you would have drawn three lines. Since there are four corners, had you followed the instructions precisely you would have drawn 4 * 3 = 12 lines. However each of these lines will be identical with another line you would have drawn, since for any two corners you would be drawing a line from the first to the second then another overlapping line from the second to the first. Therefore you might have said that there are 6 lines.

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ok

self critique assessment: 3

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11:05:19

`q002. How many triangles are there in the figure you drew?

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6 triangles all formed from crossing the middle of the square.

confidence assessment: 1

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11:06:25

You should have a total of 8 triangles. The diagonals divide the square up into 4 small triangles. Each diagonal also divides the square into 2 larger triangles. Since there are 2 diagonals there are 4 larger triangles. The 4 small triangles and the 4 larger triangles total 8 triangles.

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ok

self critique assessment: 3

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11:09:31

`q003. The lines you drew should form a square with its two diagonals. Label the corners of the square A, B, C and D, going in order around the square, and label the center where the diagonals cross E. Now list all possible combinations of 3 of the letters A, B, C, D, E (note: combinations don't care about order, so A D E is the same as D A E or E A D or any other combination of these same three letters, so list each possible combination only once. That is, if you list for example ADE you won't list DAE).

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ABE

ADE

BEC

DEC

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11:09:37

`q003. The lines you drew should form a square with its two diagonals. Label the corners of the square A, B, C and D, going in order around the square, and label the center where the diagonals cross E. Now list all possible combinations of 3 of the letters A, B, C, D, E (note: combinations don't care about order, so A D E is the same as D A E or E A D or any other combination of these same three letters, so list each possible combination only once. That is, if you list for example ADE you won't list DAE).

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confidence assessment: 1

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11:11:38

The easiest way to list these sequences is alphabetically: ABC, ABD, ABE all start with AB; then ACD and ACE start with AC and ADE starts with AD. This is a list of all possible combinations containing A. We next list all possible remaining combinations containing B: BCD, BCE and BDE. Then we write down CDE, the only remaining combination containing C. We thus have the 10 combinations ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE, ADE, BCD, BCE, BDE, CDE.

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OK, BUT I ASSUMED WE WERE DOING COMBINATIONS MAKING A TRIANGLE SINCE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT TRIANGLES. I CAN SEE THE OTHER COMBINATIONS.

self critique assessment: 0

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11:13:37

`q004. Of the 10 combinations ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE, ADE, BCD, BCE, BDE, CDE, which form triangles on your figure?

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ABE, ACE, BED, CED form triangles

confidence assessment: 0

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11:17:57

ABC forms a large triangle from A to B to C and back to A. The same is true of ABD, ACD and BCD. These are the large triangles in the figure. ACE and BDE form straight lines, not triangles. ABE, ADE, BCE and CDE form small triangles. Thus of the 10 possible combinations of labeled points, we find the 4 large triangles and the 4 small triangles we saw earlier, in addition to 2 straight lines which do not for triangles. Since any triangle in the figure must be labeled by three of the five points A, B, C, D, E, we see that these are the only triangles that can be formed.

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ok

self critique assessment: 3

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11:21:09

`q005. Sketch the same figure as before, but without the line segment from A to B. Now how may triangles are there?

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6 triangles

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11:24:55

Any possible triangle must still come from the list ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE, ADE, BCD, BCE, BDE, CDE. We again see that ACE and BDE form straight lines so do not count as triangles. Now ABC, ABD and ABE do not form triangles because the line segment AB is now missing. This leaves us the five triangles ACD, ADE, BCE, BCE and CDE.

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I don't see that AED, and BEC form a triangle if A is upper left corner, B is upper right, C is lower left and D is lower right with E being the center point of the squares. AED aand BEC form a straight line.

self critique assessment: 3

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assignment #012

012. The common sense of logic.

Liberal Arts Mathematics I

06-24-2008

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11:37:56

`q001. Note that there are 4 questions in this assignment.

Suppose I tell you 'If it rains today, I'll give you $100.' Under which of the following circumstances can you claim that I was not telling the truth?

1. It rains and I give you $100.

2. It rains and I don't give you $100.

3. It doesn't rain and I give you $100.

4. I doesn't rain and I don't give you $100.

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4. It doesn't rain and I don't give you $100, because it's the inverse of telling me that if it rain ,i'll give you $100.

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11:40:00

I said what would happen under a certain condition. In situation #2, that condition is fulfilled and what I said would happen doesn't happen. Therefore in situation #2 it is clear that I wasn't telling the truth.

In situation #3, the condition that I addressed isn't fulfilled so no matter what happens I can't be accused of not telling the truth. I said what would happen if rains. No matter what happens, if it doesn't rain what I said cannot be held against me.

It should be clear to anybody that situation #1 is exactly what you would expect, and that situation #4 is just would you would probably expect from my statement in the event that it doesn't rain, so nobody would say that this situation violates my claim to truthfulness.

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ok

self critique assessment: 0

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11:41:52

`q002. Suppose that tell you 'It will rain today and I will give you $100'. Under which of the following circumstances can you claim that I was not telling the truth?

1. It rains and I give you $100.

2. It rains and I don't give you $100.

3. It doesn't rain and I give you $100.

4. I doesn't rain and I don't give you $100.

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2. it rains and i don't give you $100

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11:43:25

It should be clear that situation #1 completely fulfills the conditions of my statement. Both of the things that I say will happen do happen.

In situation #2, it rains but you don't get the $100. I said two things were going to happen and one of them didn't. In that case you would have to say that I wasn't telling truth.

In situation #3, again one of the things I say is going to happen does but the other doesn't, so again you would have to say that I wasn't telling truth.

In situation #4, neither of the things I say will happen does and certainly it would have to be said that I wasn't telling truth.

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to me 2. is not telling the truth and that's the answer.

self critique assessment: 3

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11:45:55

`q003. Suppose that tell you 'It will rain today or I will give you $100, but not both'. Under which of the following circumstances can you claim that I was not telling the truth?

1. It rains and I give you $100.

2. It rains and I don't give you $100.

3. It doesn't rain and I give you $100.

4. I doesn't rain and I don't give you $100.

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3. it doesn't rain and igive you $100

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11:46:29

In situations 2 and 3, one of the things happens and the other doesn't, so you would not be able to say that I wasn't telling the truth. However in situation 1, both things happen, which I said wouldn't be the case; and in situation 4 neither thing happens. In both of these situations you would have to say that I was not telling truth.

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ok

self critique assessment: 3

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11:47:41

`q004. Suppose that tell you 'It will rain today or I will give you $100'. Under which of the following circumstances can you claim that I was not telling the truth?

1. It rains and I give you $100.

2. It rains and I don't give you $100.

3. It doesn't rain and I give you $100.

4. I doesn't rain and I don't give you $100.

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3. it doesn't rain and i give you $100

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11:48:19

At first this might seem to be the same as the preceding problem. But in the preceding problem we specifically said '... but not both.' In this case that qualification was not made. Therefore we have regard the statement as true as long as at least one of the conditions is fulfilled. This is certainly the case for situation 1: both conditions are true we can certainly say that at least one is true. So in situation #1 we have to regard the present statement as true. So situation #1 would not be included among those in which I could be accused of not telling the truth.

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ok

self critique assessment: 0

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This is also posted in the preceding document. You're doing well; be sure you understand the logic of the 'or' statement in the last question.