Contact information
Name:
C. Jayne Trent
Phone:
610-330-5267
Email:
trentj@lafayette.edu
When:
Saturday, October 14, 2017 - 9:45am - 12:00pm
Where:
Pardee 218 and Pardee 217
Presenter:
Derek Smith, Mathematics
Price:
Open to 1st and 2nd year Lafayette students - Free and there will be lunch!
Love problem solving, donuts and pizza? Try your hand at the Individual Barge Mathematics Competition this Saturday, Oct. 14th; here's a sample problem:
A baseball pitcher has mastered two types of pitches, a fastball and a knuckleball. He loves throwing the knuckleball, enough so that at the next game his manager has demanded that anytime he throws the knuckleball, his next pitch must be a fastball. (Don’t tell the opposing team.) How many different sequences of 8 pitches is the pitcher able to throw? For example, FKFKFFKF is allowed, but KFFFKKFF is not.
No pre-registration needed, just show up @ 9:45am for the donuts, do the math @ 10am and eat the pizza lunch @ noon. Easy-peasy! Questions? Prof. Derek Smith, smithder@lafayette.edu
Sponsored by:
Barge, Dept. of Mathematics