Are you smart enough to solve this math problem?

dchow08
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:13:46 +0000

Q2 means if you slice the shaded area using 2 slices, how many sections can you get? I can visualize how you can get 5, but it’s kind of hard to explain.

For Q4 I imagined a number line, with p 4 more to the right of q. Then r is the number of integers between q and p. If p is 6 and q=2, then r=3, because r is made up of 3,4,and 5. Then I imagined if q is 1/2 and p is 4 1/2, then r=4, because 1,2,3,and 4 are in between 1/2 and 4 1/2. And using the number line figure in your head you should be able to visualize why there can’t be 5 integers in between two numbers that are only 4 away from each other.