Entries for 'geek challenge'
Last month’s Geek Challenge was to find the limiting curve created by drawing lines on graph paper in a certain pattern.
The correct answer is C, and the values for the constants were 1, 2, and 1.
These three people answered the qu...
A uniform bar has identical frictionless wheels on each end. The distance between the axle centers is 1m. The bar is suspended by a rope attached to the lower axle and to a fixed point offset from the wall a distance that equals the wheel radius. The...
Several entrants correctly answered the Balancing Act Geek Challenge. The correct answer is B, the scale tips to the right.
Correct answers were received from Tim Jager of DMC, Devon Fritz of DMC, Brandon Williams of Yaskawa, Ian Schle...
An apparatus is constructed as shown below comprising equivalent buckets of water. The buckets and water were placed on the scale first, and it balanced. Then two suspended balls of equal diameter are added in the configuration shown. &nb...
December’s Infinite Snowman Geek Challenge winner is John Jacobsma of Dickson. Adnaan Velji of DMC also answered all questions correctly. The determination of best answer goes to John due to his elegant solution for the Center of Ma...
Ever wanted to construct the most mathematically magnificent snowman of all time? Here’s your chance. Figure out the Geek Challenge below…and don’t forget to actually build your snowman!
A snowman is to be built with an unlimite...
Last month, we asked you to find the odds that a class of 23 students has one or more shared birthdays. The correct answer to the Baffling Birthdays question is C: 50.7%.
The winner of this month’s Geek Challenge is John Jacobsma o...
As school got back in session this fall, the first grade teachers at a large elementary school posted a list of student birthdays. The teachers noticed that of the 8 first grade classes at the school, 4 of the classes had students with duplicate birt...
Congratulations to the winner of the Matrix Mind-Boggler Geek Challenge, Jordan Kuehn of the Colex Group!
Jordan wrote a program which generates random matrixes using an efficient technique. He gets extra props for including a DMC logo on his prog...
Special thanks to Han Yang for providing this month’s Geek Challenge.
A 4x4 matrix of numbers can be devised such that when any 4 cells are chosen where none of the chosen cells share a row or column with another chosen cell, the sum of the ...