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Self-Assessment

On your free time, solve the problem below. Refrain from looking for the answer on the internet.
Solve this on your own. It is more fulfilling that way. Use the next page provided for your solution.

The Problem
Facts

 There are 5 houses in five different colors.


 In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
 These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and
keep a certain pet.
 No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

Hints

1. the Brit lives in the red house


2. the Swede keeps dogs as pets
3. the Dane drinks tea
4. the green house is on the left of the white house
5. the green house's owner drinks coffee
6. the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7. the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8. the man living in the center house drinks milk
9. the Norwegian lives in the first house
10. the man who smokes blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
11. the man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
12. the owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
13. the German smokes Prince
14. the Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15. the man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water

The question is: Who owns the fish?


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Mathematics in the Modern World


First Semester 2020 – 2021

SELF-ASSESSMENT REPORT
Name: Time Started:
Course: Time Ended:
Date Conducted: Total Time Consumed:

Trial 1

Nationality
Beverage
House Color
Brand of Cigar
Pet

Trial 2

Nationality
Beverage
House Color
Brand of Cigar
Pet

Trial 3

Nationality
Beverage
House Color
Brand of Cigar
Pet

Trial 4

Nationality
Beverage
House Color
Brand of Cigar
Pet

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Activity

1. The first few lines of the Christmas song Twelve Days of Christmas:

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree. On the
second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear
tree. On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me, three French hens, two turtle
doves and a partridge in a pear tree. And so on.

In all, how many gifts were sent by the True Love to his Lover from the first day to the
twelfth day of Christmas?

After the gift-giving, which of these gifts has the highest quantity? By how many?

2. Every person at a party of twenty-eight people said hello to each of the other people at the
party exactly once. How many "hello's" were said at the party?
3. To improve her handwriting, Pauline practices writing the numbers $1$ to $200$ in words.
How many times will she have written the word "one" in all?
4. John bought eight old coins from Andrew, Andrew told John, “These eight old coins look
alike. But one is slightly heavier than the others. I will give you these old coins for free if by
using a balance scale, you can determine the heavier one in exactly three wieghings." John
was so happy to take home the free old coins. How did he do that?
5. I am thinking of a two-digit number.
 It is odd.
 Its tens digit is even.
 It is prime.
 The sum of its digits is 11.
 The product of its digits is 24.

What number am I thinking of?

6. Find two whole numbers whose product is 1,000,000. Neither of the two numbers has any
zeroes in it.
7. Present a challenging problem. Then, show your solution afterwards.

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