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<p>If water is flowing at the same constant rate through each of <italic>H</italic> ⩾3 hoses, so that any one hose will fill any one of <italic>J</italic> ⩾ 2 available jars in exactly one hour, then what are the fillable fractions of a jar, and what are the measurable fractions of an hour? Learning to systematically answer such questions will not only equip readers to fluently use fractions, but also introduce or reintroduce them gently to the Queen of Mathematics – Number Theory.</p>
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If water is flowing at the same constant rate through each of H ⩾3 hoses, so that any one hose will fill any one of J ⩾ 2 available jars in exactly one hour, then what are the fillable fractions of a jar, and what are the measurable fractions of an hour? Learning to systematically answer such questions will not only equip readers to fluently use fractions, but also introduce or reintroduce them gently to the Queen of Mathematics – Number Theory.

Filling Jars to Measure Time

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Recreational Mathematics Magazine

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If water is flowing at the same constant rate through each of H ⩾3 hoses, so that any one hose will fill any one of J ⩾ 2 available jars in exactly one hour,...

Filling Jars to Measure Time

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Okt. 2021

Seitenbereich: 1 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rmm-2021-0001

Schlüsselwörter
Bisectional fraction, mathematical induction, limits, approximations, factoring, bisectional continued fraction representation

© 2021 Tiffany-Chau Le et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Filling Jars to Measure Time

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Okt. 2021

Seitenbereich: 1 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rmm-2021-0001

SchlüsselwörterBisectional fraction, mathematical induction, limits, approximations, factoring, bisectional continued fraction representation

© 2021 Tiffany-Chau Le et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Schlüsselwörter
Bisectional fraction, mathematical induction, limits, approximations, factoring, bisectional continued fraction representation