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From Dean Arvidson, I’ll booty a algebraic botheration for $200, Alex:
Austin Rodgers is accepting absolutely a run on the bold appearance “Jeopardy!” As The Riddler goes to press, he’s won $411,000 over 12 days. What’s the best bulk of money that can possibly be won by one adversary in a distinct bold of “Jeopardy!”?
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From Guy Moore, a miniature adaptation of “football” you can comedy on the couch while still bistro nachos:
Coinball is a challenge breadth two players booty turns aggravating to alarm a fair bread toss. The bold lasts for 100 absolute tosses, 50 tosses for anniversary player. On anniversary toss, the amateur calling it announces either “heads” or “tails” and either “rush” or “pass.” If he says “rush,” he gets one point if he calls the bung correctly, and his adversary gets one point if the alarm is incorrect. Saying “pass” agency the bung is account two credibility to the addition if he calls the bung accurately and two credibility to his adversary if he does not. At the end, the amateur with the best credibility wins. (The allowance of achievement is irrelevant; in Coinball, alliance rankings are based abandoned on wins, with a draw counting as bisected a win.)
Extra credit: Put your Monte-Carlo simulations abroad and try to actuate the win probabilities to 10 digits of precision.
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Congratulations to 👏 Joseph Wetherell 👏 of San Diego, champ of aftermost week’s Express puzzle!
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A agriculturalist has three daughters. He is accepting old and decides to breach his 1-mile-by-1-mile acreage appropriately amid his daughters application fencing. What is the beeline breadth of fence he needs to bisect his aboveboard acreage into three sections of according area?
As you activate to plan your fence-building, you ability account out a few blueprints and admeasurement how abundant fence you’d need.
You alpha off simple, aloof planning to body two apparent old east-to-west fences beyond the farm. These bisect your acreage into three analogously shaped accumbent slices, giving you the according areas you desire. This aboriginal adjustment uses 2 afar of fence.
But annihilation is banishment you to go east to west. So you draw a adapt breadth a vertical fence band meets a accumbent fence line, as apparent in the additional diagram. Again, you’ve disconnected your acreage into three regions of according area, although this time not analogously shaped. This adjustment uses 1 2/3 or about 1.67 afar of fence. Abundant better! If you fabricated it this far, you are a careful and able agriculturalist and accept done the agronomical breadth of Riddler Nation proud.
But again you accept an epiphany: There’s no acumen the fences charge to be east-west or north-south at all — they could be diagonal! So you account out a adapt like the third diagram, breadth fences accommodated in a Y appearance to breach up the farm. But now things get a little added complicated because you charge to amount out breadth absolutely to put the askew curve and how abundant fence this’ll take. You’ll charge a little algebra and a blow of calculus. Aboriginal you amount out what the distances (x) and (y) charge be.2 You apperceive anniversary arena charge accept an breadth of 1/3, so you know, application the formulas for the breadth of a rectangle (base times height) and a triangle (one-half abject times height), that (y/2 x/4 = ) 1/3. In added words, (y = 2/3 - x/2).
So how abundant fence does this adjustment use? It uses one vertical allotment (length (2/3 - x/2)) and two askew pieces. The askew pieces are the hypotenuses of appropriate triangles, so we can get their breadth from the Pythagorean theorem: (x^2 (1/2)^2 =) that breadth of fence squared. Again we booty the aboveboard basis of that (which is the breadth of one diagonal) and add two of them to (y), which gets us the absolute breadth of fence in this arrangement. (Call it (L).)
begin{equation*}L = (2/3 – x/2) 2sqrt{x^2 1/4}end{equation*}
Your job as super-efficient agriculturalist is to baddest the x that minimizes that absolute breadth (L). You can do this by demography the acquired of (L) with account to (x) and ambience it according to zero. That gives (x = 1/(2sqrt{15})). Plugging that aback into our adapt for (L), this adjustment uses about 1.635 afar of fence. Even bigger than our additional fence! If you fabricated it this far, you becoming a dejected award in the Riddler Nation agronomical expo.
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But again you accept addition epiphany and about canyon out: There’s no acumen the fences charge to be beeline — they could be curved! So you account a adapt like the fourth diagram. It’s agnate to the third, except the “arms” of your fence adjustment are $.25 of beyond circles.
The algebraic actuality gets added complicated still. But in the end it turns out that (z), the “stem” of your fence arrangement, is about 0.576 afar long, the amphitheater itself has ambit one, the bend pictured3 is 30 degrees, and the absolute affair takes about 1.623 afar of fence. Our best aftereffect yet! If you fabricated it this far, congratulations: You’re Riddler Nation’s new abbot of agriculture.
Congratulations to 👏 Joseph Lombardo 👏 of Chicago, champ of aftermost week’s Classic puzzle!
Last week, you and three of your accompany went on a bold show. On date was a closed room, and in that allowance were four sealed, numbered boxes. Anniversary box independent one of your names, and anniversary name was in one box. You and your accompany took turns entering the allowance abandoned and aperture up to two boxes, with the aim of award the box absolute your name. By rule, anybody enters absolutely once. Your aggregation could advise on a action afore dispatch on stage, but no advice was accustomed during the appearance — no amateur knew the aftereffect of addition player’s cruise into the room. Your aggregation won if anybody begin the box absolute his or her name and absent if any amateur bootless to do so. If anniversary being opens two boxes at random, the adventitious of acceptable is abandoned 1/16. Alarm this the aboveboard strategy. Your ambition was to concoct a action that beats the aboveboard action — one that gives the aggregation a bigger adventitious of acceptable than 1/16.
There is a action that gives a anticipation of acceptable of 10 in 24, or a bit beneath 42 percent. It works like this, acclimatized from the puzzle’s submitter, Jared Bronski:
Your aggregation begins by accordant on a cardinal for anniversary player, for example, Isabel = 1, John = 2, Kevin = 3 and Lillian = 4. Anniversary amateur begins by aperture the box that’s labeled with his or her number. Isabel opens Box 1, John opens Box 2, and so on. If they acquisition their own name, they’re done. If not, they booty the name they do acquisition in the box as an apprenticeship and accessible the box agnate to that name’s number. For instance, Isabel will aboriginal accessible Box 1. If she finds Lillian’s name inside, she will again accessible Box 4.
The names and boxes calm anatomy a permutation. Every about-face can be bidding as the aftereffect of cycles. For example, the about-face (1,4)(2,3) is fabricated up of two cycles. The aboriginal agency Box 1 leads to Box 4 and Box 4 leads to Box 1. (That bend is what makes it a cycle.) The additional aeon shows that Box 2 goes to Box 3 and Box 3 goes to Box 2. On the bold show, this would accord to Box 1 absolute Lillian’s name, Box 2 absolute Kevin’s, Box 3 absolute John’s and Box 4 absolute Isabel’s. If, as in this case, all of the cycles accept a breadth of two or less, again the aggregation will win — all players will acquisition their own names afterwards one or two boxes.
If a aeon has a breadth of three or four, the players will lose because they can abandoned accessible up to two boxes. For example, the about-face (1,2,3)(4) would accord to Box 1 accepting John’s name, Box 2 accepting Kevin’s, Box 3 accepting Isabel’s and Box 4 accepting Lillian’s. In this case, Lillian would acquisition her own name, but Isabel, John and Kevin would not.
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There are four names and four boxes, so there are a absolute of 4×3×2×1 = 24 permutations, 14 of which are too continued to advance the aggregation to victory.
To apprentice that 14 cycles are too continued to work, we artlessly amount out how abounding cycles accept a breadth of three or four. Six permutations accommodate a aeon of breadth four. It’s accessible to see why: In these scenarios, Box 1 can accommodate three names — 2, 3 or 4. (It can’t accommodate Name 1 or that aeon would be over.) For the account of argument, let’s say it contains Name 4. Again Box 4 can accommodate either 2 or 3. So there are 3×2 = 6 about-face possibilities.
Eight permutations accommodate a aeon of breadth three. Importantly, that additionally agency that one of the cycles will accept a breadth of one — in added words, that box will accept the name that corresponds to the cardinal it was assigned. There are four means that one of the boxes could accommodate its agnate name. The added three boxes charge anatomy a aeon of breadth three, and there are abandoned two means to do this, back none of these added three boxes can accept their agnate names inside. Multiply those accessible combinations and you get 4×2=8. Add that to the cardinal of four-cycle permutations above, and you get 6 8 = 14 permutations in which the players lose. That leaves 10 larboard over in which the players win.
For added credit, you were asked how able-bodied you could do if there were 100 bodies and 100 boxes instead of four, and anniversary amateur could anniversary accessible up to 50 boxes instead of two. The aforementioned basal action applies. Associate a cardinal with anniversary name. Accessible your own box, again chase the trail, aperture the box acicular to by the name in your accepted box. Continue until you accept either opened 50 boxes or begin your name.
As before, the boxes accommodate a about-face of the names. You will win if the cycles authoritative up this about-face accept breadth 50 or beneath and lose if there is a aeon with a breadth of added than 50. The anticipation of accepting a aeon of breadth at atomic 50 is (after some combinatorics)
begin{equation*}1/51 1/52 1/53 ldots 1/100 = 0.6882end{equation*}
So the adventitious of acceptable is 1-0.6882 = 0.3118, or a bit over 31 percent. This is clearly bigger than your affairs back anniversary amateur guesses about — those are about 1 in (10^{30}).
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