problem statement:
King Arthur liked inviting the knights over parties around his table, he would give a dessert to the winner of the game, he went around the table starting with knight number one saying “your out” to the first one and “you're in’ to knight number two and he would continued until only one knight was left. That knight was winner.
Initial attempts:
The first thing that we tried, we plotted numbers in our papers simulating the number of chairs, then we started to write who was in and who was out. We made up a table with the number of chairs and the winner for that certain amount of chairs.
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We tried numbers from 2 - 32, and we found a pattern, we started with #2, then #3 and it gave us 2 and we were confused but we continued, we tried #4 and it gave us four, then we tried #5 and it gave us two, we continued and we saw it was going by multiples of two and the pattern restarted when it hit 2, 4, 8, 16, 32… every time it hit one of those numbers, it would take that certain number to restart the whole thing again.
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solution:
evaluation/reflection:
From 1-10 I would give myself a 10 because the two days that we worked on this problem I was 100 percent trying to find a pattern, and trying to understand. Having a group during the test was a good idea because we complemented each other ideas and it was very productive.