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Sadagopan Rajesh FROG JUMPING THEORY, BASIC COUNTING, STORY MATHS SEPT 06, 2024

OUT OF THE BOX THINKING THROUGH MATHEMATICS - LEVEL 2

ASSIGNMENT 2

These topics involves more logic than arithmetic !

Hope you have studied the prerecorded lecture videos thoroughly before trying this
assignment!

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I Instructions

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1. Try out the assignment on your own .

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2. You may verify your answers with the answer key that will be provided in about a week’s time.

3. This assignment carries no mark but it should help you to get engaged in problem solving.

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4. It is suggested that you maintain your answers in a separate note book for your own reference.
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Hope you have read the instructions thoroughly !

See Problems from next page! ↓


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II Frog Jumping Theory

II.I Problems in Frog Jumping Theory


For the problems involving frog, Assume that the frog is initially placed on a number line at zero
facing the side of positive integers
and jumping in equal leaps of a natural number.
See the sample figure ↓ where frog could jump in equal leaps of 3′ s.

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1. A frog lands on numbers 2024, 5819 and many more.

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Let m be the smallest possible number of 4− digit landing numbers of the frog.
Let n be the largest possible number of 4− digit landing numbers of the frog.
Then, the value of m − n is .
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2. A frog lands on numbers 435, 1392, 1769 and many more.

What could be the longest leap of the frog? .


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3. Suppose the leap number of a frog > 1.


Then , which of the following statements is definitely F ALSE?
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A. The frog lands on two numbers; one prime and other composite and many more.
B. The frog lands on exactly two two-digit numbers both ending with digit 3 and many more.
C. The frog has no three-digit landing number but lands on many numbers.
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D. none of these.
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III Basic Counting


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III.I Problems in Basic Counting


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1. X, Y are both 4-digit numbers such that their difference is also a 3-digit number.

How many such pairs of (X, Y ) are there? .

Note: (X, Y ) is not an ordered pair.

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2. The largest number of points of intersection of 5 circles and 4 straight lines is .

3. 14 mangoes need to be distributed to 12 persons such that each person gets at least 1 mango.

The number of possible combinations of the distribution of number of mangoes among them, is .

Note: Every receiving person should get natural number of mangoes not any other number.

4. How many positive integers from 1 to 2024 are multiples of 3 or 4 but not 12? .

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IV Story Maths

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IV.I Problems in Story Maths

1. A 4-digit number when divided by 103 leaves remainder 67.

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If this 4-digit number when divided by 104 leaves remainder 48, what is the 4-digit number? .

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2. Biscuits are distributed in boxes as follows:

• There are 79 boxes. Each of the first 71 boxes has 75 biscuits.


• The 72nd box, 73rd box, 74th box and 75th box each has 71 biscuits.
• The last four boxes: 76th box, 77th box, 78th box and 79th boxes are empty.
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If all these biscuits are redistributed in these 79 boxes such that each box has same number of
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biscuits (m biscuits), then the value of m is .

3. The difference between the numerator and the denominator of the largest fraction among
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33 28 32 36 31
, , , ,
81 76 74 92 67
is .
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Note: You may cook up a story to solve these problems!


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Keep Enjoying Mathematics !


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